Delaware County history on July 28: summarized.

Thaddeus Tran July 28, 2023 History and Heritage

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History Highlights

100 Years Ago, 1923: More than four hundred employees of the Texaco company, of Marcus Hook, participated in the annual outing and athletic meeting held at the Aberfoyle Country Club yesterday afternoon and evening. Athletic events of all sorts were staged for both men and women, and in addition to a dinner the Texaco employees engaged in dancing from seven-third until ten P.M. The card of sports, while not the only or the most important part of the program, attracted every single one of the 400 odd picnickers and proved to be a feature of the day. Because of the odd spectacles resulting in several of the events, the crowd was put in a happy frame of mind and a “regular time” was had by all.

75 Years Ago, 1948: Construction of a bandshell at Deshong Park as a permanent memorial to the Second World War dead was proposed Tuesday night. The idea was advanced by Robert B. Keel, master of ceremonies, at the concert of popular music given by Nick Mancini and his orchestra. An estimated 7,000 people attended. “It would be a living memorial and would fill a long-felt need at his park,” Keel declared.

50 Years Ago, 1973: William A. Schmidt of Nether Providence, president of the A.J. Schmidt Co., became the new owner of the 18-acre Belmont Industries site, Industrial Highway, Eddystone, Friday. Schmidt said he plans to use about 28,000 square feet of the 190,000 square feet on the site for his own business and develop the remainder as the Eddystone Industrial Park.

25 Years Ago, 1998: A fire broke out sometime before 6 p.m. yesterday on the back porch of Brownie’s Pub in the Woodlyn Shopping Center on MacDade Boulevard. The building was vacant and nobody was injured, said Shawn Murphy, fire chief for the Woodlyn Fire Company. It took about 35 minutes to get the fire under control, said Murphy. The cause of the fire is under investigation, he said. Some of the stores in the shopping complex, including an Eckerd Drugs, were closed while the fire was fought.

10 Years Ago, 2013: Dr. Alan Evans, a 1960 Chichester High School graduate who holds electrical engineering degrees from Widener and Drexel Universities, was named a 2013 Fellow Member by the Institute of Navigation (ION), the Navy announced. The Institute of Navigation honored Evans with the title based on his distinguished sustained professional contributions to the advancement of the technology, management, practice and teaching of the arts and sciences of navigation and his lifetime contributions to the institute.