Days of Yore
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as recounted by

Bill Day

 



Interesting Items
When reminiscing, invariably memories of things come that have not been thought of for a while, or that have been completely forgotten until something else reminds us of them. For instance-

1. How about when the Community House was the large house on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Centre Street, the house that is now an apartment. Before that in 1927, it was located at the dead-end of Chestnut Street and Kings Highway, the old mansion of B.F. Fowler.

2. How his American Legion buddies called the sexton of the Baptist Cemetery, Harvey Gauntt, "The Mayor of Silent City!"

3. When every property owner burned his leaves every fall. No one even knew how to spell the word pollution then.

4. Every Halloween, the trash can that the janitors had to recover that was hung from the rope that stretched from the top of the school bell tower to the balcony of the old Brown Building. (Boys would be boys!)

5. The fire that destroyed the Methodist Church on Warwick Road.

6. In winter, when the glass bottles would have frozen cream pushing up out of the tops. Wasn't that good to eat?

7. When a football was dropkicked for an attempt for a field goal, and also for a point after touchdown. If you remember this, you're really an old timer.

8. When Muller's Bakery was about where Woolworth's is now, and a big ice cream cone there cost a nickel, and an extra penny piled the "jimmies" on.

9. When big business on the Main Street was Bill Stevenson's produce store and his gasoline pumps on the curb, at 208 East Kings Highway. The fuel was pumped by lever up into transparent glass bowls, each holding five gallons, and when the valves were released, the gasoline flowed down by gravity by hoses into the tanks of the cars.

10. Opposite the Borough Hall on Main Street was Pep Fowler's storage batter charging shop. Automobile batteries didn't last long charged up, like they do now.

11. The public library when it was at the bend in Chestnut Street next to the school. Miss Cawley was the librarian.

12. On Sundays, adults sailing their model boats on the Evans Lagoon. Old Mr. Ramsden built scale models of old sailing vessels that were things of beauty.

13. In the early 1930's Max Feinstein, brother of I. F. Stone, published a town directory that contained the name, address and occupation of every Haddonfield resident.

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