Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920:
The 11 teams in the city of Chester and teams in the surrounding boroughs of Marcus Hook, Eddystone, Trainer, Linwood Heights, Claymont and other districts adjoining Chester started this morning on the drive for $200,000 for the new St. James’ Hospital that is to be erected at Ninth and Wilson streets.
75Years Ago – 1945:
Pete Feyas, 19, figures he will be able to walk again in about nine months. That will be sometime next July when the leaves that are now turning brown and yellow around his home in Brookhaven have been replaced by lush green foliage, the roses will be blooming again in his mother’s back yard, after he has learned to use the two artificial legs with which doctors at the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington are preparing to equip him. It was there he was recently met by movie star Marilyn Maxwell during his recovery. 50Years Ago – 1970: The original Upper Darby High School, Lansdowne Avenue and School Lane, has met its master – progress. Demolition of the old building, erected in 1917, has begun and, according to Schools Superintendent Dr. Curwen Schlosser, it will only be “from three to six weeks” before the building will be down and gone.
25Years Ago – 1995:
Skateboarders will have to pack up their wheels and decks and get out of (down)town if Media Borough Council has its way. On Thursday night, council will have the first reading of an amendment to the existing ordinance which will completely prohibit skateboarding in the business district. “The in-line skaters use it as exercise or transportation. The skateboarders congregate and don’t go anywhere,” said Councilwoman Susan Murray. Murray said youths who are skateboarding cannot be ruled out of suspicion regarding an alarming increase in graffiti within the borough.
10Years Ago – 2010:
The most recent flooding in Upland on Oct. 1 was brought on by slightly less rainfall than Hurricane Floyd dropped in 1999, but the end result was all too familiar to Upland residents who live near Chester Creek. To mitigate the immediate threats, the borough spent an estimated $4,000 on police and public works department overtime and the cost of having a contractor remove debris from the Kerlin Street bridge.