Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921: Rachlin Clothes Shop, 316 Market St., Chester, announces, “We are going out of business. We were unsuccessful in our Chester venture – We could not educate the Buying Public to the advantages to be gained by doing their shopping in 2nd Floor Shops – Thereby saving themselves considerable on their purchases. We regret to say while our Wilmington Store, at 410 Market (also on the second floor) has proven the greatest business enterprise in the city, Chester has failed us in our expectation. We are therefore giving up ‘the ghost,’ our Chester store is now closed on Friday of this week we are going to start a disposal of our stock. It means the greatest price smashing sale this city has ever known.”
75 Years Ago – 1946: Is a valuable part of Tinicum to become Philadelphia property without the approval of local governments? This seemed posed in a federal report today stating the government agreed to turn Hog Island and its $7.1 million terminal over to Philadelphia “in return for the use of the land during the war.” Delaware County officials say that the only Philadelphia-owned land in Delaware County which the government used during the war was a part of the Southwest Airport.
50 Years Ago – 1971: A three-block area of West Ninth Street in Chester will be closed to traffic until late summer as the major portion of work got underway on the substructure for the new Chester-Bridgeport Bridge. The $3.5 million contract for road and drainage work was awarded to National Engineering Co.
25 Years Ago – 1996: Like folks all across the Delaware Valley, the four-footed residents of Linvilla Orchards weathered the Blizzard of the Century just fine, Paul Linvill said yesterday.
“All the animals are doing great,” he said. Linvilla has a large population of deer, sheep, goats, pigs and several kinds of cows, plus a mule and a llama.
10 Years Ago – 2011: It didn’t take long after the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., for U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, D-1 of Philadelphia, to suggest legislating political discourse. The legislative publication The Hill reports he has proposed making it a federal crime to use “language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress.”