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Reply to comment by TomsterTruck in What happened to Chester, PA? What are its future prospects? by unenlightenedgoblin
And for what it’s worth, Chester used to be a massive export town, huge in Oil and ship building. Check out “Sun Oil” or “Sun Shipbuilding”. You may also see things about Baldwin trains that were big in the area (same as the train from Polar Express). Combine that with used-to-be golf courses and resorts, Chester has some of the nicest houses I’ve ever seen, which used to be full of lawyers, doctors, you name it. The companies left, and the rich left. Big houses turned into split apartments. Now the most notable factory in Chester is a toilet paper factory, Kimberly Clark I believe. There is also a Boeing facility nearby, but not technically in Chester
TomsterTruck t1_j4om6al wrote
Reply to comment by unenlightenedgoblin in What happened to Chester, PA? What are its future prospects? by unenlightenedgoblin
I’m currently a senior at widener, but have lived in the area for my whole life. Not everyone in Chester is super happy about Widener either. Tbh I’m not very involved in goings-on, but I do know we got a Starbucks on campus which took place of a small art/history museum, in which pieces donated by people of chester are now presumably sitting in storage instead of display.
At least they sprinkle cocoa powder on the trash before they burn it so it smells like the Hershey Factory
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Reply to comment by fallowcentury in Seen in Harrisburg, Philly vernacular spreading west? by [deleted]
So it’s not a Philly thing because its based off of a different word in a different place?
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Reply to comment by Jumpy-Natural4868 in What happened to Chester, PA? What are its future prospects? by unenlightenedgoblin
It was technically Sun shipbuilding but same company as Sun oil, I think they shipped a lot of their product from Chester, since it’s right on the Delaware and not too far from the ocean