Contacting me: - Update

I have temporarily cleared a small amount of space in my email box. However, spam continues to be a problem. To be sure you get through the filters, be sure to include the name of our city somewhere either in the subject or the body of your email.
You can contact me by phone. Follow this link for phone number.  -John

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Photo courtesy of Edward Kosteski

near

10th & Edgmont Ave.

"I have a scan of an old photo taken circa 1918 of the original store."
Thanks to
Edward Kosteski

Thanks to their ad in a Chester High annual, courtesy of Janet Andrews Moulder, Wilmington, DE

Thanks to
Barbara Montello

Thanks to their ad in a Chester High annual, courtesy of Janet Andrews Moulder, Wilmington, DE

"Home-made candies, Soda Fountain & Luncheonette Service" according to their ad in the June 1937 Southern Penn Bus Schedule Book, courtesy of
Terry Redden Peters

Thanks to
Joe Grovola,
joe.g1@comcast.net 

(Click on the image to see the larger version and for more Deakyne Bros. Candy pictures)

Deakyne Bros. Candy Ad from Chester Times Yearbook & Almanac 1929,
Courtesy of Janet Moulder, jmoulder@aol.com

c. 1887:

318 Parker St.

in 1894:

NE Corner 3rd & Parker St.

H.C. Deakyne
[Obituary]

Mrs. Ethel Deakyne

Other known employess:

Walter "Pete" Chadwick (Easter egg decorator)

Thanks to
Joe Grovola,
joe.g1@comcast.net 

Photo courtesy of Andrew Atkinson, from his Great Grandmother, Rae Hopman's collection.

(directly across from the Southern Penn Bus Barn)

Thanks to Ginny Cook, Ginnycook1@aol.com

Click here to read Ginny's recollections about the fire c. 1946 at the Southern Penn Bus barn.

Thanks to
James Crystle
j.crystle@worldnet.att.net 

S.W. corner 3rd & Parker St.

From the Souvenir History of Chester, PA under the auspices of the Board of Trade Published by George M. Burns, Philadelphia, PA 1903
courtesy of Terry Redden Peters

Thanks to Ed Spellacy

son

Mike Momont

Hank Ternove,
hank_ternove@yahoo.com

Thanks to
Mike Majeski 

Thanks to
Joe Grovola,
joe.g1@comcast.net 

Thanks to their ad in the 1915 Chester High annual, courtesy of Janet Andrews Moulder, Wilmington, DE

(between 9th & Tilghman & Central Ave.)

Thanks to
Kim A. Brown,
cousin,
kym419@aol.com 

Thanks to their ad in the 1917 Chester High annual, courtesy of Janet Andrews Moulder, Wilmington, DE

Thanks to William J. Stoop,
stoopey@delanet.com

(Click on the images to see the larger versions.)

Photo of a Zangari sign courtesy of
Maria Zangari-Treesh,
PookieGF@aol.com

1953 Photo of a
Zangari's Water Ice Truck,
Jerry & Joe Zangari,
courtesy of Maria Zangari-Treesh,
PookieGF@aol.com

Maria Zangari-Treesh, PookieGF@aol.com

"Some of my fondest memories of Chester included days in the summertime when my Grandfater, Agazio "Gus" Zangari, would take us out in one of his Zangari's Italian Water Ice trucks! To this day, I still get people asking me, "Are you related to Zangari's Water Ice?" Nothing beat my Grandparent's Water Ice, and to tell you the truth, I haven't tasted anything like it to date."

Greg Zangari, gzangari@ix.netcom.com

"I remember well the Zangari Water Ice tuck coming around my neighborhood! You're right about it being the best! Haven't had one as good since! If I remember correctly they had at times Licorice and Vanilla flavors. They were my favorites!"

Paul Crowther, pcrowther4@home.com