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Bill Day
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Steel framework of a building that was built
on the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition grounds in South Philadelphia was dismantled
at the conclusion of the Exposition. It was brought to Haddonfield
and reassembled on a lot at the corner of Wayne avenue and Wood lane and
on it was built the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Our Savior in 1927.
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The front window of the Horn and Hardart retail
store on the highway once featured the following pastries, and the prices
are hard to believe. A square of nine cinnamon buns, 28 cents; butterfly
shaped coffee cakes, six for 25 cents; Easter season bunny cookies, 20
cents a dozen; hot cross buns, 24 cents a dozen; fully decorated Easter
egg pound cakes, 69 cents. These 1926 prices are no more, and even
Horn and Hardart is gone.
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Remember taking an empty jar into B.F. Fowler's
General Store, and giving it to a clerk who would, with a ladle, fill it
with molasses from a big molasses barrel that stood in the rear of the
store? The aroma from that barrel was delightful. That was
the way molasses was sold then.
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The Kay family once lived in a fine old Victorian
house on the corner of Chestnut street and the highway. They possessed
a broken tea cup that members of the family had preserved as an heirloom.
The story of the cup was that it had been dropped and broken by a Hessian
officer when the British Army was passing through the town during the Revolution.
That old mansion was demolished to make way for a new Bank, The Haddonfield
Trust Company.
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In the early 1900's Dr William Anderson was a
leading physician in Haddonfield. However, when he first opened his
office in town he was having difficulty in getting established. An
oldster suggest that he spend his many free hours riding in his horse and
buggy around town and thus be prominently seen on the streets, and people
would believe that he was making his house calls. Doc followed the
advice and his practice prospered.
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Remember the flight of wooden steps that once
existed on each side of the ravine separating South Atlantic avenue and
west Park avenue. The boards laid between the rails made for a smooth,
easy walkway.
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Remember, too, the steep footpath down and up
the cut in the Cottage avenue section that only the younger element could
use to get across the tracks. To get from the east to west side of
Haddonfield now in the area one must go to Lincoln avenue. Things
are just not as convenient now as they used to be.
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