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<\/a>Mr. Dillin, who was proprietor for many years of the store that bore his name, died in 1915. Here he is standing on the loading platform on the side of the Old Store, facing the Lindenwood Hotel, as part of the present Radnor Inn apartments was once known.<\/p>\nIn connection with the picture of the old Radnor School, we related the pastimes of youngsters in the 1880’s and 1890’s as given in Mr. Yocom’s notes. We continue today with notes on what these youngsters did as they grew somewhat older.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could have fox hunts. The Torpey family had a bunch of foxhounds,\u201d Mr. Yocom writes. \u201cWhen there was a real fox hunt my Uncle Oscar would close the store for the day\u2026 we would get one day a year at Atlantic City, taking the train from Camden, $1.00 round trip. We had everything with us including fried chicken\u2026 the only things we had to get there were our bathing suits.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt home we had clay pigeon shoots and live pigeon shooting matches\u2026 \u2018Old Maid\u2019 was our game of cards\u2026 quite often we could take in a good train wreck on the railroad at Radnor. It would take several days to get these wrecks cleaned up\u2026 of course in winter there was sledding and sleighing and skating on Motts Dam\u2026 we drank hard cider from cider presses and got almost woozy\u2026 we held boxing matches in the field in front of the Dillin Store… we held contests to see who could drink the most water\u2026 Dave Casey and Henry Strunkey had a raw egg eating contest\u2026 Dave ate 34 and Henry 33. Johnny Gallagher got water-logged from drinking so much water. We had to roll it out of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would drive Bill Torpey’s milk wagon or the old \u2018hack\u2019 at the station\u2026 we took J.W. Paul from Radnor to Villanova once, he gave us a tip of two dollars\u2026 also we would hire a stage and four horses from Gene Thompson’s livery stable and make trips to Norristown dances, eat and drink beer, and drive home singing some of the old songs like \u201cMeet Me in St. Louis, Louie, Meet Me at the Fair,\u201d and \u201cI Wonder If She\u2019s Waiting, the Girl I Left Behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I guess we had a good time\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Mrs. Louis Goebel, of Berwyn, telephoned your columnist that she can identify five pupils in the picture of Radnor School No. 4 in addition to those named by Mr. Yocom. These include her brother and herself, Norman and Helen Famous, also Lane Cox, Kate Quigley and Laura Noblett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three of the October columns of \u201cYour Town and My Town\u201d were founded on the reminiscences of Ray Yocom of Long Branch, Calif., whose youthful days were spent in the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Dillin at the Old Store in Radnor. The columns were illustrated by pictures from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>This picture might well be called \u201ca quiet Sunday afternoon\u201d since young Ray is so obviously dressed as he would be for Sunday school and church. \u201cFrank,\u201d the white horse, is enjoying his day of rest after six days between the shafts of the delivery wagon. On the back of the picture Mr. Yocom bas made a notation that he was about 15 years old when this picture was taken, and that the background shows the rear of the store and the house.<\/p>\n