Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1924 » When the next State legislature convenes, Rep. Walter H. Craig of this city will introduce a bill providing for the removal of bodies in the Friends’ Burying Ground on the west side of Edgmont Avenue, just north of Sixth Street. The removals will be confided to a distance of 15 feet back, from the present building line of the avenue, this being the amount of ground desired by the city toward carrying out the future plan of widening Edgmont Avenue from Sixth Street to Gray, or 26th, Street.
75 YEARS AGO, 1949 » Chester Zoning Board of Appeals today deferred decision on the plans of Congregation Mispallelim to erect a $60,000 synagogue. The organization at a hearing in city hall sought a waiver to erect the building on the south side of Seventh Street, between Park and Fulton streets. Although Building Inspector James A. Devlin was unable to appear, he was reported as having withheld a permit because sufficient open areas weren’t provided at the front and sides of the structure.
50 YEARS AGO, 1974 » The Delaware County Prison Board on Wednesday night ordered the immediate installation of barbed wire and additional exterior lighting at the county’s minimum security prison facility in Thornbury. The action came in apparent reaction to the latest escape from the prison by seven inmates last Friday night. Earlier Wednesday at the weekly meeting of the county commissioners, in the Media Courthouse, Mrs. Claire Stewart of Aston wanted to know by the barbed wire hadn’t been installed after being delivered to a prison warehouse two years ago.
25 YEARS AGO, 1999 » If a Ridley Township Battle of the Bulge veteran has his way, another war monument will be erected on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Dan Iannelli has been lobbying local lawmakers about the National World War II Memorial — enough to get notice from state Rep. Nicholas Micozzie, R-163. Micozzie, in turn, won state House approval for a $1.5 million donation to the project. The issue is now before the state Senate.
10 YEARS AGO, 2014 » The parents of one of the biggest baby’s born in Delaware County Memorial Hospital in recent memory now knows the answer to the question, “Where’s Waldo?” Brian and Danielle Dwyer, of the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, were both Where’s Waldo? book fans in their youth and decided that was the perfect name for their first born child. Waldo James Mysterious Dwyer was born 10:50 p.m. Monday (4-14-14) weighing in at 13 pounds, 8 ounces.