Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1923 » Charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct, Michael Talbot, of 404 E. Eighth St., was arrested shortly before last midnight by patrolmen Burns and Hamilton. Talbot, by his boisterousness, had the neighborhood awake and it was on complaint of several of them that officers were sent to the place. This morning, in police court, Magistrate Elliott committed the prisoner for 10 days in default of payment of the $10 fine and costs.
75 YEARS AGO, 1948 » A $357,000 “new look” to match its smart new product is now being sported by the Chester assembly plant of the Ford Motor Company. One of the biggest plant conversion projects in the history of Delaware county industry was completed in record time by the local Ford organization in preparation for production of the new Ford which made its debut last Friday. Hundreds of individual work projects involving more than 80,000 man labor hours were planned and completed with only a two-day break in productions. Layoffs, which during previous major model changes had shut the plant for months, were kept to an absolute minimum by careful planning and utilization of each man’s special skills.
50 YEARS AGO, 1973 » It had to be a first for Delaware County: An authentic Hawaiian wedding, performed by a rabbi, with a priest giving his blessings, in a park commemorating a Swedish governor. Even the weatherman cooperated in the unusual ceremony, permitting the sun to break through for the first time all day Friday evening as Marianne Selfridge, formerly of Norwood, became the bride of Donald A. Browns of Honolulu, Hawaii, in Gov. Printz Park in Tinicum. The wedding was an ecumenical service that had been authorized by the Roman Catholic Philadelphia Archdiocese. Marianne is a Roman Catholic. Her husband is Jewish.
25 YEARS AGO, 1998 » A controversial proposal to develop two public iceskating rinks on part of Newtown Township’s 21-acre Drexel Lodge property has been withdrawn, board of supervisors Chairman Dick Pound announced last night. He said the Bala Cynwyd-based EnterSport Capital Advisors informed the township it wants to review the financial implications of the proposal made to the township’s land development committee. Therefore, it will not be on the supervisors’ July 13 agenda as originally scheduled.
10 YEARS AGO, 2013 » Aston commissioners, via resolution, requested a Watershed Restoration and Protection Grant (WRPP) in the amount of $300,000 from the Commonwealth Financing Company of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to be used for stormwater improvements to Weir Road, Blackthorne Lane and Weir Park.