Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: A showcase outside the store of K. Schwartz, at Seventh and Welsh streets, Chester, was demolished last night when a touring car owned by Joseph Casey and driven by a lady companion crashed into the building. Mr. Casey and his companion had a narrow escape from being cut by flying glass.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
From the Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania: “Now and then I hear the operator say – ‘Please limit your long-distance call to a minute. Others are waiting.’” There’s a good reason back of that request. It means that telephone circuits needed to complete your call are crowded. At those times, we know you’ll understand and be glad to help. If your call isn’t really, urgent, perhaps you’d be willing to cancel it. Thank you.”
50 Years Ago – 1968:
Financially troubled Curtis Publishing Co. has sold American Home and Ladies’ Home Journal – two magazines printed in the firm’s Delaware County plant – in a move to concentrate on class publications. Sale of the masscirculation magazines, however, is not expected to have an immediate effect on employment at the company’s color-printing plant on Calcon Hook Road and Elmwood Avenue in Sharon Hill.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
After months of anticipation, Boscov’s new department store in Granite Run Mall swings open its doors today. Officials of the company will cut a ribbon of $100 bills this morning on their first store in Delco and 26th in the chain, which is the largest chain of privately owned department stores in the nation. The unusual ribbon is made up of 37 $100 bills, one for each member agency of the United Way of Southeast Delaware County and a $1,000 bill from the United Way itself. Boscov’s replaces the long-gone Gimbels and Stern’s stores but with a major restricting of the building.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
Widener University launched a few new pages on its website aimed at helping members of the media cultivate story ideas and better understand the historic changes taking place in Chester. The “Chester Renaissance” page at www.widener.edu/ chester_renaissance follows in the recent tradition of the city-run chesteryes. com site in offering a “brighter side” look at the city so often plagued with negative connections to drugs and violence.