Both the beauty and sometimes agony of going through my grandmother’s collection of things she’s saved over the years is that I often find nuggets of gold among things that I wonder why she saved. I know they all meant something to her and she had her reasons for saving either to look at later [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lincoln Highway’
The Guernsey Cow From Above – New Photo
Posted in chester county, exton pa, history, tagged 1940s, 1970s, exton pa, Lincoln Highway, The Guernsey Cow on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Meet You At The Cow
Posted in chester county, exton pa, history, tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, advertising, chester county pa, exton pa, george washington, history, Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania Turnpike, West Whiteland PA 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 [...]
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 [...]
Exton, PA through the ages from above
Posted in chester county, exton pa, history, tagged aerial photography, chester county pa, exton pa, history, Lincoln Highway, The Guernsey Cow on July 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was digging around on West Chester Jim‘s history site recently and stumbled on a link for the Pennsylvania Geological Survey’s site for historical aerial photography of Pennsylvania. In 1937, this is what the crossroads in Exton looked like: Mostly farm fields and woods. Here’s the same photo zoomed in on the crossroads of Routes [...]
Flooded World War II Era Exton, PA
Posted in chester county, exton pa, history, tagged 1940s, chester county pa, exton pa, history, Lincoln Highway, roadside, signage on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At some time during World War II Exton apparently suffered a significant flood. The Valley Creek that runs along the road across from what was then The Exton Dairy Grill looks to have overflowed its banks. A Brandywine Farms truck navigates the waters along with two cars. Before there was The Guernsey Cow billboard, during [...]
Cows on the run
Posted in history, tagged 1940s, 1950s, billboard, cows, exton, exton pa, Lincoln Highway, The Guernsey Cow 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. [...]
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 »
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 [...]
In 1967 The Guernsey Cow Grew Bigger
Posted in history, tagged 1960s, 1967, exton pa, Lincoln Highway, remodeling on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In 1967, The Guernsey Cow added on to the existing structure to expand the dining room and kitchen area. The photo below is taken from behind the ice cram counter looking into the old dining area. Elmer Polite, brother and partner of Larry Polite and Joseph Pep Puliti (and later, owner of Mr. Sandwich in [...]
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 Guernsey Cow as it appeared in the 1940s
Posted in history, tagged 1940s, chester county pa, exton pa, ice cream, Lincoln Highway, The Guernsey Cow on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is another photo my grandmother had in her files. I believe it’s The Guernsey Cow circa post World War II. That’s when my grandfather changed the name of the business from The Exton Dairy Grille to The Guernsey Cow. I really like the detail of this pastoral scene atop the roof. I don’t know [...]
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