Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1919: The effort to create sentiment in some parts of the United States to ultimately prohibit tobacco has not gained any headway in this city. Plans are in preparation to submit the question to the voters of Oregon at the general election in 1920, as an entering wedge to bring the subject before other states. There is a well-defined campaign under way, backed in large part by the forces that backed prohibition of the liquor traffic.
75 Years Ago – 1944: It’s longer hours for state liquor stores and more convenience for liquor store customers from now until Christmas. New store opening hours, revised to “give better service during the holidays,” went into effect today, according to an announcement from the state Liquor Control Board. The revised schedules do not apply alike to all stores, with relatively great number of employees remaining open
longer hours than two-clerk and one-clerk stores. In Chester, stores at Sixth and Welsh and at Ninth and Lincoln streets are open 10a.m.-9 p.m. six days a week; the two Third Street stores are open 10a.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday.
50 Years Ago – 1969: Plans for an enclosed multimillion-dollar shopping mall on 90 acres at Baltimore Pike and Sproul Road were announced by the proposed developer. Kevy K. Kaiserman, Philadelphia attorney and senior member of the board of Kevon Construction Co., said he had bought several parcels of land for the estimated $18to $20million development. He said it would be “prettier than Cherry Hill,” referring to the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Mall.
25 Years Ago – 1994: Springfield Police are investigating the firing of at least eight shots into the Red Lobster restaurant over the weekend when it was closed. About 2:20a.m. Friday, a security man working at an apartment complex in Upper Darby called police to report hearing the sound of several gunshots in the area of Baltimore Pike and Bishop Avenue, police said. Patrolman Joseph Sadoff responded and discovered that someone had fired shots into the restaurant building at 1 Baltimore Pike, police said.
10 Years Ago – 2009: Haverford High School’s storied radio station, WHHS, will celebrate 60 years of broadcasting history next month. Launched in December 1949, WHHS has the distinction of being the oldest student-run radio station in the nation. According to faculty sponsor Ed Weiss, a Dec. 4program will include a re-creation by current staff of the first broadcast made from WHHS, using the original script.