|
|
Bill Day
|
When an ice cream cone cost a nickel, and a large
plate of ice cream cost fifteen cents.
Men’s high shoes that had hooks which the laces
were hooked up around, instead of holes.
When every boy had a top and pretty colored string
to spin it with, in one side pocket of his pants, and in his other side
pants pocket, he carried a bag of marbles with which he challenged
all comers.
When the borough limits were extended out Grove
street to the bridge over Cooper’s Creek which put the Fargo section in
Haddonfield. This was and agreement reached with Haddon Township.
The high school football pep meetings on Friday
evenings, the snake dances over to the Lizzie Haddon field, the huge bonfires
that were burned after our football victories.
Freddie Cooper being kidded as to how he was
always slowing down on his way down the field during a touchdown run as
he passed those many Haddonfield photographers.
When a number of the employees of the tannery
out on the Kresson road lived in town. The tannery was in the old
Nelson-Johnson bus garage when that line was in competition with Public
Service in Philadelphia.
A one-chair barbershop operated by old Hen Coward
near where Woolworth’s store is now. A child’s haircut cost fifteen
cents.
The Keystone Telephone Company, with a few phones
in town, with an operator on the second floor of a building near Woolworth’s.
When the contractor paving Main street look so
long to do the job that one merchant planned rows of corn stalks in the
middle of the street to simulate a growing garden.
When an old Haddonfield resident, Lou Round,
owned a bright red roadster in 1917. It had a floor-levered gear
shift at the driver’s left side, a horn with a rubber bulb to squeeze to
make it work, and there were no doors, just cut our openings to climb in
and out.
When half the herd of cattle on the E. T. Gill
farm, which is where Tavistock is now, had to be destroyed when it became
diseased. What a shame.
The “trees of heaven” standing on the curb in
front of the old Mann property near the corner of Hopkins lane and Kings
highway. The trees, with their uniquely shaped trunks, are noted
as good shade and ornamental trees.
The yearly carnival that was run by Legion Post
No. 38 between Haddon avenue and Ellis street. The legionnaires would
spin a dozen or so wheels of chance at a nickel or a dime a chance to see
who would win the gaudy prizes on display.
| DayHikes.org Homepage |
|
Days of Yore Homepage |