Since we’re all sick of the snow, ice and cold weather in general — and we’ll learn Wednesday whether or not we have six more weeks of this to face — we thought we’d give you a break this week.
A summer break.
We delved into some old files and found these two photos from August 1979.
In the photo with the tire swing, Allan Kyle breezes along in his backyard on Chapman Road off Ferry Road, New Britain.
In the other photo, Canada geese cool off in a park on Horsham Road, Horsham, as a woman strolls across the bridge in the background.
Some day it will be warm again.
Some day...

OK, so it’s winter and we’ve been getting a lot of snow. And more is predicted. But if this week’s snow doesn’t mean a postponement of a special presentation, you’ll have a reason to leave the house on Tuesday (Jan. 25).

“A Bird’s Eye View of Hatfield History” will be the subject of the Hatfield Museum & History Society’s community program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. A slideshow presentation of aerial photographs will depict the changing face of Hatfield during the past 75 years.

In the photo shown here, the George Didden Greenhouses on Vine Street are prominently in view. This is a 1941 aerial photograph of Hatfield Borough. The railroad and trolley tracks can be seen in the bottom-right corner, and the former Hatfield High School is visible in the distant top center.

The program will be held in the Hatfield Fire Company Banquet Hall, 75 Market St., Hatfield. The public is invited and refreshments will be served. And let’s all hope the weather will cooperate.

The Christmas season is over and those once beautiful decorated trees that occupied our living rooms only a week or so ago are now piled at the curb awaiting their demise.

Back in the late 1930s, Lansdale faced a similar problem with its community Christmas tree that for years graced the lawn of the Hotel Tremont on East Main Street.


As the photo indicates, the live tree had seen better days by the time this photograph was taken.

Although it was located right in the heart of town, near where the drive-in for the Rite-Aid Pharmacy now stands, the tree’s neighbor was a gas station, whose leaky underground tanks did a real number on its roots.

Year after year the gas spillage weakened the tree to the point where even Charlie Brown would hesitate to take it home.

Finally — mercifully — it was cut down and replaced by — of all things — a metal tree that looked like something out of a science fiction movie.

The bad news is the gas leakage couldn’t kill the metal tree.

The good news is that it, too, was eventually replaced by a cut tree, similar to the one that is erected each December at Railroad Plaza Park.

In the long run, good taste won out.

OK, so we just shoveled our way through our first real snowstorm of the winter.

And now it’s January, and summer feels far, far away.

So what better time to feature some swimsuit photos in Remember When, right? Hey, perhaps it will warm you up.

These photos were submitted by Barbara Santee of Telford, who wrote the following:

“Summer as early as 1928 found many young couples jumping into newly obtained automobiles and heading for Atlantic City.


“Seated on the sand is Alfred and Violet Cressman Smith, resting comfortably, enjoying the sun and surf. Note the cars parked casually on the boardwalk.

“Standing you will see Violet’s older brother, Harry Cressman, and wife Mildred, sporting the latest styles in woolen bathing suits.


“Alfred and Violet resided in South Perkasie and later Philadelphia, raising six children. Harry and Mildred lived in Philadelphia and Langhorne, raising three boys.

“Sure looks like a fun day. If you remember those suits and automobiles, you’re older than I am!”