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Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

Meet You At The Cow

Posted in chester county, exton pa, history, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I just passed by the pile of newspaper clippings and paper in The Guernsey Cow bin and this card caught my eye. I read it and realized it has a little more ‘story’ and ‘hype’ than an earlier version of the history of The Cow that appeared on the back of a menu. Permit us [...]

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Cows on the run

Posted in history, tagged , , , , , , , on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s a truck carrying cows either overturned or broke down along the Lincoln Highway in Exton, PA in front of The Guernsey Cow.  The cows, on the loose, were drawn to the giant Guernsey Cow billboard and milled around in its shade and that of the nearby trees. [...]

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Memorabilia: 1950s Postcard The Guernsey Cow Exton PA

Posted in history, memorabilia, tagged , , , on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This late 1950′s postcard of The Guernsey Cow is open for bids on eBay right now. The cars really give the postcard it’s ‘classic’ feel along with the 50 gallon drum trash can and oil stains in the parking spots. [Update June 13: The final selling price for this postcard was $47.99! That's the first [...]

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World Famous: Switzerland 1957

Posted in famous, tagged , , 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 [...]

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