Last week, I received an email from Frank Lavin who worked for Horn & Hardart and managed The Guernsey Cow for a few years in the late 1970s. I’ve edited the letter a bit for length: I worked for Horn & Hardart from 1973 ( during High school ) through 1978 ( as a Restaurant [...]
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Reader Mail: Horn & Hardart Years
Posted in history, working life, tagged 1970s, caramels, chester county pa, exton pa, Horn & Hardart, ice cream, Lincoln Highway, willie minor on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did You Work at The Cow?
Posted in working life, tagged 1930s, exton pa, ice cream, labor, The Guernsey Cow, working on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Child Labor circa late 1930s Thanks to the brainstorming efforts of Uncle Pep (Joe Puliti/Polite), we have added a new page where you can add comments to let us know you worked at The Cow, what you did and when you did it. We would also love to hear what you ended up doing later [...]
Preparing for Change
Posted in history, working life, tagged 1973, customer service, exton pa, exton square, history, mall, shopping, west whiteland on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I first started working at The Guernsey Cow, it was the last year the business was run by Horn & Hardart (my grandfather still owned the property but had leased the business to H&H in 1976. More about the history of the business to come in a later post.) My grandfather continued to walk [...]
Making Black Licorice Ice Cream
Posted in working life, tagged flavors, grasshopper, ice cream, licorice, making ice cream on February 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Cousin Kim Puliti sent along this photo of himself in the midst of making black licorice ice cream. His father Joe (Pep) Puliti left a comment on the Flavors page about licorice ice cream. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he was about to head up to the roof to patch a hole with [...]
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 [...]
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