In the mid to late 1930s, when The Guernsey Cow was still known as The Exton Dairy Grill, Larry Polite was already making a name for himself and his place with both his ice cream and his famous cream caramels. Of all the materials both my grandparents saved from The Cow the largest gap consists [...]
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Making & Selling Famous Cream Caramels
Posted in caramels, exton pa, famous on July 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Somewhere Out There
Posted in exton pa, famous on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, The Daily Local News published an article about an ad hoc committee formed in West Whiteland Township to discuss what to do with the remnants of the The Guernsey Cow sign that was dismantled in 1985 and how best to remember The Cow (I am a member of the committee). Part of [...]
Famous Cream Caramels
Posted in exton pa, famous, tagged caramels, chester county, cream caramels, exton pa, Lincoln Highway on January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This image is in the archives at The Chester County Historical Society in West Chester. It’s the only one they have related to The Guernsey Cow in their archives. [They have a nice service there where you can pay them to research a topic or multiple topics and determine what information and photos they have [...]
The World’s Largest Cow Makes Room for The Lincoln Highway
Posted in famous, history, tagged advertising, billboard, chester county pa, exton pa, Lincoln Highway, West Whiteland PA on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In 1972, The Lincoln Highway (Route 30) in Exton, PA was being widened and The Guernsey Cow signs needed to be moved back from the road to make room. As described previously, when the billboard was originally erected right after the end of World War II, the highway department visited Larry Polite and informed him [...]
The World’s Largest Guernsey Cow
Posted in famous, history, memorabilia, tagged 1940s, americana, billboard, chester county pa, Daily Local News, exton pa, immaculata college, Lincoln Highway, Rte 30, wallet card, West Whiteland PA on July 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been meaning for a long time to post a photo of the actual Guernsey Cow sign since, for many (or most), it is what defined The Guernsey Cow. I actually have very few photos of the famous sign. While it was still known as The Exton Dairy Grille, in 1927, Frank B. Foster, the [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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