Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920:
It is the easiest thing in the world to get “Red Eye” in Chester and surrounding territory – if you know how. And whiskey is being sold openly, too. Drunks are on the increase at City Hall, and fine specimens of humanity they are. Usually they are down and out – in bad shape – for the liquor being secured just now is the kind that causes a man to see things. At least such is the statement made by most of the drunks when they have “recovered.”
75 Years Ago – 1945: More than 100 chippers at Penn Steel Castings
Co. were out again today following an unauthorized strike which started the first thing Thursday morning. The delivery of vitally-needed castings for the Maritime shipbuilding program was delayed as the chippers stayed off the job in protest against a reduction in the work week from seven to six days.
50 Years Ago – 1970:
Mrs. Lydia Whitaker, 56, was trying to get some sleep on June 25, 1967, after her nursing night shift at Riddle Hospital when a Navy airplane – pilotless after he bailed out moments before – crashed into a water tank next to her Concord Road home in Aston. After bureaucratic wrangling, she felt she had no alternative but to file a suit against the Navy in federal court. “And do you know, they now deny that the aircraft was being operated on the business of the United States and that any such crash caused damage to my property,” she said.
25 Years Ago – 1995: Employees at the federal building on West Seventh Street, Chester, were frightened and anxious at work in the wake of yesterday’s deadly explosion in Oklahoma City. About
150employees from the agriculture, social security and defense departments work at the site, a building official said. “We’ve had bomb scares here before, when the IRS was here,” said agriculture department employee Karen Gusler. “They came around tax time.”
10 Years Ago – 2010: What’s more thrilling than watching grass grow? A lot of things, for sure. But when you’re laying the sod that Philadelphia’s first Major League Soccer team will line up on during its first season in its new stadium, grass can get exciting. “It’s a great feeling to be able to do something for the city of Chester and it’s a great feeling to be a part of history,” said Robert Coates, a Local 413 member among the crew laying down the first pieces of sod at PPL Park.