It was a ritual that there was no school on the Monday following a football victory over Collingswood.  After all, that was something to celebrate!

Three spare tires were a necessity on a round trip from Haddonfield to Long Beach Island because the 29 mile stretch across the plains from the Four Mile Colony Circle to Manahawkin was bad on tires because fine gravel pebbles covered the road.

When Walnut street was cut through down the hill and across Lakeview avenue to the Mountwell swimming pool, it was not longer necessary to detour up east Park avenue to Center street to get to the pool.

The taxi fare to any address in town was a quarter in the limit of McPhelan avenue and to the Shepherd's home for the aged: both in Delaware Township (Cherry Hill).  A one way fare to the Central Airport was $1.75.  Tips then, were few and far between.

Along Cooper Creek on Park drive in Delaware Township was the Civilian Conservation Corp during the depression in the 1930's.  Those C.C.C. boys walking around Haddonfield in the evening really gave the town an army town appearance.

The scissors grinder man in his wagon covered the town sharpening all the scissors and knives that the housewives brought out to the curb to him.

The farmers from New Sharon brought the little pigs to town and sold them to the children for 50 cents each.

Henry D. Moore would walk down town swinging his gold headed cane.  He was always walking in the gutter which was his habit.  He did not have to detour around too many parked cars in those days.

The Chatauqua tents erected in the summer on Euclid avenue, near the railroad were the scene of religious services.  Mrs Dorothy van den Deemt remembers the show as the high spot of her young days.  Tickets sold for $5 for children, $15 for adults for a five day period.  Besides the religious services, there were plays, concerts, minstrel shows, cooking hints and other features.

The sheets of decalcomanias cost a penny each at Bray's candy store.  Every kid in town had wrists and forearms covered with the transfers.

It was never well known but before the Delaware Township (Cherry Hill) police had radios in the cars, its patrols would telephone into Haddonfield headquarter at regular intervals.  If a Delaware Township emergency arose between calls, their desk sergeant would contact the Haddonfield police department. If the incident was close to Haddonfield, the Haddonfield desk sergeant would contact our patrol cars by radio to cover the emergency until the Delaware Township cars called in.  It is unbelievable that such an arrangement ever existed.

The building built in 1820 at 208 east Kings highway where Bill Stevenson's produce store used to be was moved to 8 Roberts avenue, where it still stands.  When the house was being moved, the contractor was busy handling out building inspector cards to all sidewalk superintendents.

The Town Hall was on the second floor of the old firehouse on Haddon avenue before 1928.  The police department was in a side room on the first floor and the present Borough Hall was erected at a cost of $175,000 which also included the furnishing.  In those days our commissioners did not care how they spent our money!