This and That 2/9/14

This & That

By Jack Coll

2-9-14

     Welcome to another addition of This & That on Conshystuff .com.  This & That is a series of tid-bits I’ve come across while researching other projects.  The tid-bits are not breaking news but meant to entertain and perhaps bring back a memory or two.  Almost all the tid-bits are taken from some publication mostly The Conshohocken Recorder newspapers, Times Herald or some other publication.

This & That is also anything else that’s on my mind, like today’s first bit!

Enjoy this week’s This & That

     Okay, stupid question of the week, has anybody really ever had a HOT FUDGE SUNDAE?

The reason I ask, Donna and I recently stopped in at the Hard Rock Café in Center City at 12^th and Market Streets for a little desert after having dinner on Filbert Street.  I ordered a Hot Fudge Sundae, but not to my surprise the hot fudge was not hot at all, not even warm.  So I’m sitting there eating my Hot Fudge Sundae and thinking if they put the hot fudge in the cup, and then cover it with ice cream, if the hot fudge doesn’t turn cold right away, it will be cold by the time I get to it!  If they pour the Hot Fudge over top of the ice cream, I would think within moments of the chocolate hitting the ice cream it would turn cold, and by the time they get it out to my table and my spoon hits the fudge, it will be cold.  So then I’m sitting at the Hard Rock Café contemplating as to whether I’ve really ever had a HOT FUDGE SUNDAE for real.  Should any restaurant or ice cream joint be allowed to call the Sundae something it’s not? If you order a Butterscotch Sundae, and there’s no butterscotch on the Sundae would that be right? So if the fudge on your Sundae is not hot, it’s never been hot, shouldn’t it just be a FUDGE SUNDAE? Or in some cases where they just pour chocolate syrup over the ice cream and pass that off as a HOT FUDGE SUNDAE, those places should be out of business.  Anyway, by the time I was done eating my Hot Fudge Sundae I realized that I didn’t enjoy it because I thought about the fact that the fudge in my cup of ice cream wasn’t hot at all and it never has been, with that in mind I realize that I’m just pushing globs of chocolate down my throat.   So the question remains: has anyone out there ever really had a HOT fudge Sundae and where?  Thanks for your time for my Rant!

These tid bits come from a Looking Back column published in the Recorder in 2005

10 Years Ago

1995

Plymouth Township Council approved a development plan by Tornetta Investment, Inc. to build a movie complex on Keystone Mack property on Ridge Pike west of Chemical Road.  In addition to the proposed 14 movie screen, the project also included two new restaurants.

Conshohocken Recorder Ads

(Yes they are taken word for word)

January 1, 1918

TEAM WORK OF ALL KINDS

Promptly Attended To

“We go when and where the automobile don’t”

Horses and Cows Bought, Sold and Exchanged.

Young Pigs for sale.

FEARNSIDE’S FARM

In Rear of West Conshohocken Public Schools.

Store phone 307W

Residence phone, 342W

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January 1, 1918

$6.00 PAID FOR DEAD COWS

$4.50 For Dead Horses; $5.00 For Live Horses.

Bell Phones Lianerch 23 & 112

2 Auto Trucks; Quick Service.

Kunkle Bros., Ardmore, Pa.

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January 1, 1918

MONEY ADVANCED To Housekeepers

In Conshohocken and Vicinity.

You Can Afford To Borrow

When The Total Cost Of

$20 for 4 months is only …..$3.04

$36 for 4 months is only …..$4.78

$44 for 4 months is only …..$5.56

Pay Back Monthly

Other amounts in proportion

Supervision of banking department insures your transaction

 Handled Fairly and with businesslike courtesy.

No Delay       Strictly Confidential

Citizen’s Loan Co.

415 Norristown Trust Building,

(Fourth Floor)

Main & DeKalb Sts. Norristown

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January 1, 1918

George W. Wills

Funeral Director

316 Fayette Street

Conshohocken Pa

Bell Phone 278W   Keystone 647X

January 11, 1918

GIVE HIM ALL THE MILK

He can drink

Have us leave a bottle of our RICH, CLEAN MILK

At your door every day

PEOPLE’S Sanitary Dairy

FOURTH AVE & HARRY ST.

Conshohocken

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March 30, 1967

Blue Route to Demolish

Quarter of West Consho

Homes, Official Reveals

     When West Conshohocken Borough held its town meeting Wednesday night, last week, two men were conspicuously absent.

The missing vital links were Larry Coughlin, state senator, and Joe Torak, state representative, both elected by West Conshohocken to represent their problems in Harrisburg.

Neither of the men were invited to the meeting.

And it was the most historic meeting ever held in this little town of some 1,000 residents.  Robert Rowland, an engineer for the State Highways Department told the audience that the Mid-County Expressway would eliminate 90 homes, one quarter of the total dwellings in the borough.

There were 200 people at the meeting and looked as though a bomb was ready to fall.

Originally, plans called for the demolition of 40 homes, a staggering tax and personal loss.  The new total of 90 dwellings was unexpected, almost a cruel revelation.

For the town council, it means a loss of tax revenues exceeding $50,000 per year.  To the residents who will lose their homes, it may mean untold despair, even poverty for some.

Rowland said the road will run along Ford St. from Church St., to DeHaven Avenue, cutting the borough in half.  He described the road as 500 feet wide and 80 feet high at one point.

Borough Council was crushed, and at least one tirade was directed toward Coughlin and Torak, men who were not even invited to the meeting by town council.  Mayor George Barr delivered the caustic comments on the representatives.

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October 30, 1979

St. Matthew’s CYO

     St. Matthew’s CYO Volleyball Team finished the regular season with a 23-10 record.  Members of the team included Head Coach Cathy Conboy, Stacy Gauglione, Sue Lincul, Kim Lesinski, Coleen O’Donnell, Karen Leddy, Kathy Moore, Gina Malatesta, Chris Conboy, Mary Ferris, and Assistant Coach Judy Ingram.

October 18, 1977

The Art Shirt

A Complete Selection of Sportswear

At Sharply Reduced Prices

Hector Street & North Lane  Conshohocken

November 29, 1977

Raiders in West Conshohocken

     The West Conshohocken Raiders 100 Pound Football Team finished the season with an 8-2 record.  Members of the team included Ron Farrell, Chris Sugalski, Joe Harvey, Joe Basile, Steve Sugalski, Frank Dilworth, Jim Shore, Paul Romberger, Caesar Ridings, Larry Koresko, Jamie Ramsey, Jerry Grablewski, Joe Venezia, Dan Enz, Tom McArthur, Jim Crawford, and Dan McMahon.  Coaches for the team included Nate Ramsey, Tom Foy, and Moss Ramsey.  The West Conshohocken Raiders Football organization had five football teams back in 1977.

September 20, 1977

C & W Sales Co. Plan

Is Home Demonstration

     Beautiful, useful, desirable crystal china, cutlery, cookware, and related items are available from C & W Sales Co., 201 Maple Street, Conshohocken, which offers the convenient plan of “Home Demonstrations.”

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