The most loved member of The Guernsey Cow community was, and still is, Willie Minor. “Our Willie” is remembered for his bicycle outfitted with horns, lights, fenders, racks, flags, and baskets heavily laden with old newspapers and many spools of string pieces knotted together with such precision that there were no ends sticking out. Even [...]
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Profile: Willie Minor
Posted in biography, famous, history, tagged bicycle baskets, bicycle horns, downingtown pa, exton pa, larry polite, willie minor on January 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Selling Fresh Pulled Sweet Corn
Posted in working life, tagged corn, photo, produce, roadside on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My grandfather works on his signage while my mother looks on. The makeshift produce table is set up on the lawn alongside Sleepy Hollow Hall on the west side of The Guernsey Cow parking lot. This was taken probably around 1940. Note: Years later — make that decades later — my siblings and I were [...]
Celebrity Sightings
Posted in famous, history, tagged celebrities, claude rains, doris day, kitty carlisle, moss hart on January 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I spoke with my grandmother recently about celebrity sightings at The Cow. She remembers the celebrities but wishes my grandfather was here to answer as well. He remembered every politician that visited. Kitty Carlisle of What’s My Line fame and husband Moss Hart visited once, probably in the 1950′s. Mr. Hart owned a farm in [...]
Memorabilia
Posted in memorabilia, tagged ebay, memorabilia, postcards on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From time to time we’ll post photos of Guernsey Cow memorabilia. And from time to time we’ll post a link to memorabilia currently for sale on eBay by various collectors and antiquers out there. See the postcard below being sold by someone in Shrewsbury, PA. I’ve bought several of these over the years on eBay. [...]
World Famous: Switzerland 1957
Posted in famous, tagged 1950s, celebrities, europe on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My mother, Wanda Polite, #1 daughter of Ilario and Gladys, reports her own ‘world famous’ tale. Once upon a time during the summer of 1957 two friends and I were staying in an elegant hotel on a Switzerland mountaintop. (Audrey Hepburn, her husband Mel Ferrer, Sophia Loren and her future husband Carlo Ponti were also [...]
Famous
Posted in famous, history, Uncategorized, tagged caramels, exton, famous on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Growing up I would see the word “famous” on the all the Guernsey Cow packaging. I’m assuming I believed it. By the time I was a doubting teenager I knew it was true. My aunt Saundra Polite Schier — Gladys & Larry Polite’s #2 daughter — sent me a couple of stories about The Guernsey [...]
Tuesday Nights at the Cow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flavors, summer on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the early 1970′s before any of my siblings and I were ready to start working at the Cow we had the pleasure of dining there every Tuesday night with our grandparents. My recollection is that this was a summertime tradition. One of the benefits of being grandchildren of the proprietors was that we were [...]
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