Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
Chester Police Chief John Vance has announced a change in the parking rules and regulations on Market Street and Edgmont Avenue and issues a warning to all motorists and drivers of other vehicles to obey the new rules at once. Parking in the future on Market Street, between Market Square and Sixth Street, will be on the eastside, and on Edgmont Avenue, between Sixth and Ninth streets, on the eastside. Heretofore, the parking was on the westside, but this rule was changed in order to help relieve congested traffic.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
Fifty FBI agents and 25 Chester and county policemen in plain clothes are busy today rounding up local enemy aliens and closely investigating their activities for the past several months. The squad, armed with more than 100 warrants, began its roundup at 7:30 a.m. and continued its work throughout the morning and into the afternoon.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
A crowd of about 200 watched Saturday as two Chester policemen fought a Ft. Dix, N.J., man they were trying to arrest after a street fight near Union and Fulton streets. Patrolmen Joseph Friel and Leroy Miah said the man refused to leave the area after they broke up a fight. They said he used abusive language and ignored “five or six” commands to move on. When the officers told the 20-year-old that he was under arrest, they said he ran into a muddy field nearby, where he scuffled with police.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
About 40 Tinicum Township residents, angered by 10 years of noise pollution from I-95 and a lack of action from their elected representatives, last night took their issue to the street. Literally. They gathered on the shoulder of the highway to demonstrate their needs for sound barriers with flags and signs spelling out their plight to passing drivers: “Welcome to Tinicum, Delaware County’s Noisiest Town.” “To Gov. Casey and Pendot [sic]: We Need Sound Barriers Now.”
10 Years Ago – 2007:
A homeless man familiar to Upper Darby police should have known better than to rob a store clerk in the neighborhood. An officer had no problem identifying the culprit after hearing a description of the suspect who had “very crooked teeth.” “We don’t know if he had a knife or a gun,” Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. “The homeless are dangerous people. They steal and rob to survive.”