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Bill Day
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1. The water fountain on the curb at Mechanic
street and east Kings highway where horses could drink, citizens could
quench thirsts at the bubble fountain, and dogs could lap out of a small
cup at the base. The town supplied ice daily for the coils.
2. The town’s pride when a new ferry boat named
“Haddonfield” was launched on the Camden-Philadelphia run.
3. The wooden diving tower and roped in area
on Hopkins Pond. The lifeguard was none other that Dr. Stan Davis.
4. When church services were held on Sundays
in the morning and evening with Sunday School at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
5. The high school football games were played
on the Elizabeth Haddon School Field. Well remembered players were
Finney Wood, Al Driscoll, Cliff Garwood, Polly Holloway, Marv Regensberg,
Buss Sheridan, Bumps Richardson, Don Rummel and Mike LaBove.
6. The tennis star, Bill Tilden, playing on the
courts that were on Ellis street, where the Bell Telephone building stands
now.
7. When a doctor charged $1 at the office, and
$2 for a house call.
8. Tom Brookshier, now a sportscaster, after
retiring with a broken leg for the Eagles football team, living in the
Kings Highway Apartments on Potter street.
9. The garbage collectors, pig farm owners, going
into every backyard as they made their rounds, to empty the cans at back
doors.
10. The ragman tying up your old newspapers,
weighing the bundle with his hand scale, and paying you the going rate
for paper.
11. The wagon sheds back of the Friends Meeting
on Friends avenue, and the sheds at the rear of the Baptist Church where
all the kids played.
12. Remember when the house gas lights grew dim
and a quarter hastily had to be found to put in the meter down in the cellar
to replenish the supply of gas.
13. The freight station that once stood on Washington
avenue. To see it today, go down to the lumber yard on the Kresson
road in Batesville where it is now.
14. Rockhill and Fowlere’s feed store on Ellis
street just off Kings highway where all the kids trooped in to get weighted
on the big scale when there was nothing else to do.
15. When a crystal set was a real luxury and
a family was well off if it had two set of earphones.
16. Boxing bouts being promoted at Marne avenue
in the building that later housed a car agency.
17. The clothes prop peddler traipsing around
town with his shoulder laden with his stock that sold for eight cents each.
18. The little barred-window brick building in
the rear yard of the house at the corner of Walnut and Ellis street.
In an early day it was the town jail.
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