I started this blog New Year’s Eve 2007, a little over a year after my grandfather, Larry Polite, died about six weeks short of his 98th birthday. As we moved my grandmother, Gladys Polite (or Marmsie as we and many others knew her), out of their apartment and into assisted living we needed to move [...]
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Remembering Marmsie
Posted in biography, memorabilia, tagged exton pa, history, The Guernsey Cow on September 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Exton Dairy Grille 1940
Posted in chester county, exton pa, history, tagged 1940s, exton pa, The Guernsey Cow on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before The Guernsey Cow changed names and signage in 1945, it was known as The Exton Dairy Grille. This is how it appeared in 1940 on a Friday morning.
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. [...]
Fun & Profit-Making inside The Guernsey Cow in the 1970s
Posted in your memories, tagged 1970s, exton pa, The Guernsey Cow on November 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My sister, Erin, brother, Brian, and I (in snappy jacket and tie) pose in Amish hats in front of the grill inside The Guernsey Cow, Easter morning 1970. Every Easter after church at nearby Sts. Philip & James we would gather at The Cow for breakfast. An Easter basket hunt out behind The Cow among [...]
A Letter From a Tennessee Reader
Posted in your memories, tagged beer sandwiches, chester county pa, downingtown pa, exton pa, The Guernsey Cow, willie minor on November 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It’s been a while since my last post and I’m hoping to show some new things soon. In the meantime I received this email the other day from Tom Malloy of Memphis, TN that I thought was worth sharing: I grew up in Exton, Pa on Shoen road not far from the Cow. I remember [...]
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 [...]
A Sign of Summer
Posted in memorabilia, tagged chester county pa, exton pa, signage, The Guernsey Cow, typography on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This sign is one of my favorite relics of The Guernsey Cow. Hand-lettered on a stiff board, it is a sign of times gone by. I love the use of four different typefaces and the decorative border. More than that, it speaks to the kind of business my grandfather wanted to run and represent. I [...]
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 [...]
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