Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

Chester will have another theatre for its amusementloving public. New York promoters were in the city this week and purchased a site for the construction of the playhouse, but refused to divulge the location until later. Work will be started next week on 168 additional houses for the William G. Price Co., which will be taken by the Sun Shipbuilding Co. to take care of their employees. The dwellings will be constructed between Ninth Street and Morton Avenue.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

The Pennsylvania Central Airlines today filed an application with Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, D.C., for permission to establish a “seadrome” air route between the United States and Great Britain by using huge floating steel islands spaced at 800-mile intervals across the Atlantic. According to a company statement, the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. will construct the islands, if the CAB approves.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

Edwin S. Hineman, 51, of Birmingham was tapped Friday – as expected – to be the next chairman of the Delaware County Republican Executive Committee. Hineman, executive deputy state secretary of revenue, was endorsed by the Delaware County Republican Board of Supervisors (War Board) at a brief meeting in party headquarters in Media.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

Community leaders celebrated the past year’s success in servicing the homeless at Community Hospital in Chester. “This is a celebration of the fact that two programs started up this year and have grown into two full-blown, effective components for the homeless,” Said Phyllis Gaul, chair of the Homeless Services Coalition and director of allocations for the United Way of Southeast Delaware County. A Homeless Day Center opened Nov. 30 at the Salvation Army building at 151 W. 15th St. It gives the homeless a place to relax, play pool, take showers, phone their families, send and revive mail and get help with their problems.

10 Years Ago – 2008:

As one basketball season ends, the Brandywine Youth Clubs is planning for the next. Concord supervisors granted conditional use and preliminary land approval to BYC to build a pre-fabricated gym on a 2-acre portion of the 38-acre township-owned Dante property. The tract, at the intersection with Baltimore Pike, is the home of the former Dante School and Church of Our Savior.