Historian Keith Lockhart has a pile of pictures, postcards and photo-based illustrations from days passed by in Delaware County that he’s cataloging for posterity. The pile is trying somewhat decrease currently.
He would admire your experience and reminiscence as he continues this work.
This week, Keith has a photograph of a spot known as Ruark’s Nation Market. Keith says it’s alongside Baltimore Pike in Middletown Township However “I do not know of the situation. In search of deal with and, if gone, what’s there now.”
Appears like you possibly can get watermelons for 35 cents and bushels of probably potatoes for 45 cents.
Suppose you understand one thing? Keith’s e mail is keith106@rcn.com. Try extra from Keith at delawarecountyhistory.com.
Final week, Keith had a photograph of Upper Chichester Township showing Boothwyn Road in Linwood, and right here’s what you needed to say about it:
• “The primary home on the best aspect (with the utility pole line proper of manner) is 1558 Chichester Avenue. The stone partitions and roof strains of the following homes are roughly the identical now. The photographer view is towards the SE from the intersection of Chichester Avenue and Ward Road.” — David Burns
• “The view is trying east down Chichester Ave. (previously Boothwyn Ave.) from Huddell Ave. in direction of Market St. The deal with of the primary dwelling on the best within the foreground is 1558 Chichester Ave.” — Dennis & Jack McKnight
• “That is the place I lived on Chichester Avenue in Linwood, Decrease Chichester. The home, far proper, was Fred Miller’s home at 1558 Chichester. Fred Miller, Andy Miller and their mom, Mary, who was bedridden lived there. Our home, to the best and never proven, was at 1562 Chichester Avenue. When my mother and father purchased our home in 1941; the home was numbered as 72. The photograph was taken on the nook of Ward Road in entrance of Cardile’s property. Wolfe’s basic retailer was on the opposite nook of Chi and Ward. … The home to the left of Miller’s was Mancini’s and the one subsequent to their home was Marshall’s (the place Mrs. Catherine Mancini’s mother and father lived). My dad instructed me tales concerning the Marshall home the place all of the younger youngsters used to fulfill the play playing cards, and many others., of their home (the harmless years). I beloved listening to all these tales from the previous and nonetheless take pleasure in them. I knew all the opposite neighbors taking place the road. That total block had good households, they usually sorted one another. We moved to the nation in 1959 to Harmony Township … Sustain your attention-grabbing work.” — Mary Ann Schoen
It actually is attention-grabbing work. This one is a thriller not.
