Willie Minor, an icon and goodwill ambassador for Exton, Downingtown, Coatesville and beyond is now riding that great bicycle in the sky. He was greeted into heaven with endless high fives and locked thumbs — Willie’s traditional greeting for our family whenever we met. In the late 70s and into the 80s we often joked [...]
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Remembering Willie Minor
Posted in Uncategorized on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At the sign of The Cow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1940s, chester county, exton pa, lincon highway, signage on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is another nice photo from my grandmother’s photo albums taken in the Fall of 1941. My Aunt Saundra and mother, Wanda, stand out along the Lincoln Highway (Rte 30). In 1941, the business was called The Exton Dairy Grille. It was these smaller cow signs advertising “Golden Guernsey” products that would prompt customers to [...]
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 [...]
Merry Christmas from The Guernsey Cow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christmas, holiday on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s about a week late but the sentiment is there. This is the top view of a caramel container lid. The Guernsey Cow’s World Famous Cream Caramels were hand made in copper kettles.
Welcome to The Guernsey Cow
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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