I realize that I am biased since so many members of my family were baptized & married at St. Ann’s (and my great grandfather was a long time Scoutmaster), but we need to save St. Ann’s. I don’t know Sandi Russo, but I do know she was spot on in her thinking when she sent this … Read more
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Queen guitarist, astrophysicist and wildlife campaigner Brian May is a man of diverse interests, but his latest project, a book on the history of the crinoline, is perhaps his most astonishing yet. Around 1840, skirts began to widen – slowly at first, but within a decade a hem could measure as much as 33ft round. … Read more
I’ve blogged about his location before (in what is in that space now) but this is what it looked like back in 1948
Now known as Marshalls Plaza, the strip mall has also been known as Great Arrow Plaza and, when it first opened in 1948, the Delaware Park Shopping Center. The apartment buildings in the background are still recognizable. The big tenants when this photo was snapped were the A&P market and the Western Savings Bank branch — which was opened after…
Source: What It Looked Like Wednesday: A&P, Delaware at Great Arrow, 1948 – BN Chronicles
