DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago, 1923: A dispatch this morning states that Dr. Charles W. Perkins, whose residence for many years has been at Broad and Upland streets, died suddenly at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, last Saturday at noon. The body will immediately be sent to Chester for burial. For the past few years Dr. Perkins had been in poor healthy and it was his custom to go to the hot springs for treatment. Particularly was his eyesight bad of late, due to cataracts and general infirmities. Dr. Perkins was in his 75th year, and for about 40 years practiced medicine in Chester.
75 Years Ago, 1948: Permission to build a foot bridge over Chester Creek, at Sixth Street, has been granted to the city of Chester by the Pennsylvania Navigation Commission. Tentative approval for construction of dam on Chester Creek, at Ninth Street bridge, was given, pending submission of detailed plans by the city.
50 Years Ago, 1973: Some Ridley Township and Eddystone residents were unhappy this morning about an early start on work tearing down the entranceway of the old Chester Pike Drive In. “I didn’t appreciate being awakened at 4:30 or 5 a.m. and even though I knew it coming, I had no idea work would start at that hour,” said Mrs. Albert Malazia of 1425Chester Pike, directly across the street from the site. Although the theater entranceway is being torn down as a result of Interstate 95 construction, it is not in the right-of-way of the highway, and is not being torn down by the construction company building the section of I-95.
25 Years Ago, 1998: Delaware County Council has approved a four-year plan for transferring the hundreds of residents at the soon-to-be-closed Haverford State Hospital. The mentally ill patients will be transferred to Norristown State Hospital or placed in community settings, state Department of Public Welfare spokesman Jay Pagni said yesterday. The majority of the patients at Haverford State are from Delaware County. Those 185 patients are the ones that the county is responsible for transferring. The home county for the other patients are responsible for them, Pagni said.
10 Years Ago, 2013: Kelly Straub, of Havertown, a registered nurse who has been a longtime fan of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” maneuvered her way through the first nine questions, but was incorrect on the 10th one, leaving with $1,000. Straub works at the Northeastern Hospital School of Nursing and used to spend her lunch time watching “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” which has Meredith Vieira as its host.