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| Picture | Business Name | Location | Owner/Operator | Dates of Operation | Comments: |
| Abbots Dairy | |||||
| Bergdoll's Dairy | Farm in Boothwyn, PA | "Bergdoll's
Dairy had a large dairy farm in Boothwyn.They delivered milk to our 9th & Crosby home
during the 30's & 40's." Thanks to |
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| ? | James P. Carey | - d. 1924 | One of
Chester & Upland's pioneer ice cream manufacturers; also a ventriloqist!
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Crystle Dairy | 15th & Gold St. (between Providence Ave. & Walnut St., and between 15th & 16th St.) |
William Henry Crystle, Sr. and William H. Crystle, Jr., (Grandfather and Father of William H. Crystle, 3rd) |
Late 1800's Sold to Wawa some time in the 1980's |
"Crystle
Dairy operated from about the late 1800's. They first delivered milk from a farm in Nether
Providence Township. He had his herd of dairy cows in the barn on the estate of Governor
William C. Sproul. The milk was delivered in Chester and sold out of milk cans by the
dipper. They moved into Chester in the early 1900's and built the dairy in the rear of 528
E. 15th Street, Chester. My Grandfather, who started the business, name was William Henry Crystle, Sr. He was born in Delaware County (I do not know the location) on July 2, 1869, and died in Chester in September, 1942. My Father was William Henry Crystle, Jr. He was born in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, on May 6, 1904 and died in Chester on April 3, 1974. I remember as a child they delivered milk by sleigh when the streets were covered with snow. The dairy was eventually sold to WaWa Dairy sometime in the 1980's." Info courtesy of William H. Crystle, 3rd, miserabill@aol.com |
| Darlington Bros. Dairy | Darlington (Middletown Twp.) | Early 1800's - 1964 | "My father, uncle and grandfather before them operated Darlington Bros. Dairy from our farm in Darlington which is in Middletown Twp. As a teenager I remember delivering many a bottle of milk to homes in Chester and a Dairy Queen or two. This dairy which has a long history dating back into the early 1800's (maybe earlier) ceased operations in the 1960's. Actually the family sold the dairy in 1964 because of health problems and it continued to operate for a few years before being sold to Sealtest (?)."
"Cornucopia Dairies became Darlington Bros. Dairy. Darlington Bros. dairy bought out Homestead Dairies which was in Chester Heights and another dairy in Media." |
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| Hall & Crowther | 234 Edgmont Ave. TR6-6195 |
Norman E. Hall Harold H. Crowther |
- 1960's - | Dairy product wholesalers | |
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Photo from CHS 1938 Yearbook, courtesy of Helen Stauffer Hess, Swarthmore, PA |
Highland Dairy Products Co. | 12th & Kerlin St. | ? - 1938 - ? | Later Miller-Flounders Dairy | |
| ? | 15th & Providence Ave. | John T. McCain | - 1899 - | ||
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May's Water Ice | 537 W 2nd St.
September 2002: |
James
May
Sonny May |
1947 - Present | Recent
article from the Delaware County Daily Times.
Thanks to |
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Photos courtesy of Delaware County Historical Society |
Miller-Flounders | 12th & Kerlin St. | Some
known employees:
James
T. Brennan "My grandfather, Roy C. Smith, Sr. was a Milkman for Miller-Flounders in the early 1930's. He drove a milk wagon and his horse knew all of stops." |
- 1949 - | Earlier
was Highland Dairy Products
Miller Flounders Dairy was razed in the 1960's for the construction of I-95. "My father, Bill Settine, worked for Miller Flounders in the late forty's and all the way up to 1970 for Abbotts Dairy when he retired. The early days he covered 3rd street (we lived on 5th and Pennell). In the afternoon he came home for lunch and left his horse and wagon in front of the house. I can remember feeding the horse an apple in my open hand." Thanks
to "Miller-Flounders' milk was delivered in BROWN GLASS bottles." Thanks to Rudy Koch |
| Morrison's Ice Cream Store | Thanks
to William Morrison, Delaware County, PA |
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Sealtest / Supplee - Wills - Jones Milk Company | 12th St.& Deshong Drive | "Sealtest/Suplee
was on 12th & Deshong Drive. It bordered Deshong Park
near the Deshong's baseball field.After playing baseball we would go there and buy a pint
of cold chocolate milk." Thanks to John C. Brown jnbrown@davis.com |
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| Sharpless Creamery | Concord Station | - 1900 - | Destroyed by fire, July 1900 | ||
| Charley Vaccaro | Ice Cream Truck | Charley Vaccaro (?) | - 1930's - | "...does anyone else remember "Hey Mom! Here Comes Charley!"?
Charley was an ice cream man who used to come around in an old truck with that painted on
the side, ringing a bell, every Sunday evening, selling popsicles and creamsicles, etc. I
think his name was Charley Vaccaro." Thanks to Kay (Krell) Hutchinson, bkhutch@dmv.com |
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| Welc's Confectionery | 100 Highland Ave. (Front & Highland) | John [Dorothy] Welc (1956) | ? - c. 1968 | "On the corner of
Front and Highland Ave, 100 Highland Ave, was a candy/ice cream store call Welc. They served Potts ice cream and it closed about 1968." Thanks to Pete Krasowski, Newfield, NJ |
