Great memories Cindy....I too have lived in Palmyra and Cinnaminson my whole life (almost)...and my father used to have a piano and organ shop at 10 east Broad Street in Palmyra back in the early '50's...so I grew up on Broad Street and share all your memories...and many more....Mitchell's Tavern...Davids' Shoe Store PRC Realty, Mac's and the Snack Shop.Beitz's Market, Littlewood's Typewriter store, The Tri-Boro News office, Joe Ken's Auto Parts store...Leedom's Texico Rogers News stand....I could go on forever! Thanks for the memories!

I most definitely remember Millside Dairies and their great ice cream. My family was living on the Mainline but we were going to move to Cinnaminson once our new home was built. Every time my father drove us over to Cinnaminson for checking on the construction, to get the kids to come along, dad would also stop at Millside Dairies for cones. Theirs was the best ice cream in the galaxy, I swear.
After my family settled in the new house, I thought we were living the high life because, unlike my part of the Mainline where there were no pizza parlors, Cinnaminson had Dino’s. Its original location was in an old house near Hathaway’s. Their pizza was great. Later it moved into the Wine Cellar shopping center before folding.
I believe Shea’s Liquor was the only store where you could buy liquor in Cinnaminson. (I could be wrong, my parents were teetotalers.) And Cindy, I recall the horse pasture at Hathaway’s. The inside of the original Hathaway’s was like stepping back to the days of Prohibition – old wooden wood floors and an ancient bar. Luckily for kids back then, they never checked our id’s too closely.
Kipple’s bakery was the best, I sure miss it. We are lucky that L & M, which is down the road, is still open. I would love to see another real bakery at the site of Bo’s Wok. Maybe even a pastry shop with coffee but nothing connected with Starbuck. Please, the faux donuts at Dunkin aren’t worth eating.

Ric, If I'm not mistaken, Dino's actually started out on Rt130 up near where the old 4-10 motel was before it moved to the new shopping center where there was also a Chicken Holiday store...Millside Farms was owned by the Laslocky family....wonderful people...Do any of you remember the stuffed two headed calf that was on display in the lobby at Millside Farms?...and does anybody remember when there was a truck repair shop and a house right where the Rt.130 Diner now stands?...and when Barlow Chevrolet was still Village Ford?
ha...I could go on forever!

Neat photos and history, thanks for sharing.

The Wine Cellar was originally supposed to be a movie theater (Prior to the addition). But there was a fire and the owners ended up selling the building in what is now the Wine Cellar to this day. The original owner just recently retired.
I also remember most of the places that have been mentioned as I was raised on the border of Palmyra/Cinnaminson. I have great memories of growing up in small town America. I remember my mother saying that when her and my father moved to Palmyra from K&A in Philadelphia in 1962, everyone thought they were moving to the country, and thought it to be ridiculous to have to pay a nickel to cross the bridge each day to go to work. Speaking of the bridge, I can remember it being free on Christmas and Easter days. I just saw the son of Littlewood Typewriters a few weeks ago while out shopping. He too is still local. There was also a penny candy store in the twin home on Cinnaminson Ave at the corner of Wallace St. An older woman ran it and would always give us kids a few extra pieces of candy each time we visited.
Thank you Cindy for taking what is typically a fuel charged blog page and turning it into something positive, if only for a few hours or days! I too could go on for pages and pages of the memories I have growing up here. I think this would be a great new forum for the Patch to adopt rather than always a story with a political edge to it.

wow, great stuff here folks.. I do remember a lot of it but back then we were visitors and did not live here yet.. Lowell- where did Larry Ferarri live on Cinnaminson ave? Which house? I loved him as a kid

Frank, He lived in the block that the drug store was on about 3 houses down....Do you remember the building next to the little gas station behind palmyra Drugs Store?...In the 50's it was the post office...then later became a laundramat..(I met my wife there!)...Larry had quite a bit of money back in those days and I remember him buying one of the sample homes for Cinnamin Hill up on Cinnaminson Ave..for his mother . He had just brought her over from Italy and she spoke no English so he got her he sample house all ready to go!

Ferrari had moved to Meetinghouse Rd before he passed away. Can anyone verify a rumor I heard that he donated a wurlitzer type organ to CHS? Even though I was an adult by the time I met him, I was still in awe from watching him on TV when I was a kid. That leads me to a sad bit of news - I just heard that Sally Starr passed away recently. I saw her in person at the Fox Theater in Willingboro at a Saturday matinee. Does anyone remember her occasional cowboy sidekick's name? I had forgotten Littlewood's Typewriters - I have kids at school who have never heard typewriter sounds, and don't know what they're listening to when they hear a recording of someone typing.(Remember IBM Selectrics being state of the art?) They also didn't recognize the sounds made by a rotary phone or the distinctive sound your modem made when you went on line with a dial up connection. My daughter remembers hearing "get off of the computer, I need to use the phone!"

There was also a candy store on Broad St near Delaware Ave, and there was another "corner store" in East Riverton on Bannard, either at Read or Randolph. My great-great grandmother's twin sister, Sarah, married into the Bishop family - they had a plumbing business on S. Pompess, next door to where I live now. You can see the sign behind the twins in the picture I just added.

I do remember the candy store at Delaware Ave and Broad st. I was never allowed to "cross the tracks" back then when I was a kid. But every Wednesday when my brothers and sister had to drag me to the firehouse for a hoagie, I would always make sure I had a dime or so left over to run there before we had to get back to Spring Garden St School. Prices were .50 cents for a half a hoagie and .10 for a cup of boost & $1.00 for a whole hoagie. I can still remember Bill Quigg's wife sitting at the card table collecting money and giving us a piece of paper to give to the ladies behind the counter. They still sell them on Wednesdays, but not as often and you have to order them ahead of time and the prices are a bit higher these days. Still one of the areas best hoagies around! Those ladies who have made them for years are like the rest of us. Getting older. :-)

Lowell- So Larry lived in Palmyra at one time? never knew that. Thought he was in Cinnaminson all the time. Interesting...

Cindy- Meetinghouse road sounds about where he would have lived:)

Thanks for the info!

Yes...I remember him moving out to Meetinghouse too.....I was shocked one time when we took a family trip to Roadside America in PA. to see the big model train display....and Larry was there, playing the big Hammond B3...with 2 Leslies!...what sound!

just curious...to you folks on this thread...did you attend Palmyra schools?
I graduated PHS in 1969 and lived on Morgan Ave all through school...still own the house...but I now live in Rolling Greens...Cinn City

Great stories, I have been in cinnaminson for a short while, its sad to see the things change for the worse, flooding, taxes, new schools and over assessed properties....I wonder who was doing the books back than, were they always a tax and spend government ---- Barons gas station has all black top now and when they say they are going to put in grass how are they going to do that, oh the roofing co. will do it, must be connected some how.....sorry to stop the historical society but reality comes in when people are facing floods and there house is gone...good luck

I would think they will pull up the asphalt and do the landscaping in the spring....Oh yeah..Things will never be as simple as they were back then.....not with the way the world works today!
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We have been in Cinnaminson since 2003. We purposely moved here for the Schools. From what many of you remember and have shared, Cinnaminson sounds like a great town to raise a Family. Well that's how I use to think and share about the town until WE have had to live through MAJOR Flooding.

@John - check out the pictures that accompany this post. I included the tax bills for my house from 1947 and 1967 just for a chuckle. The population stats are available by looking up Cinnaminson on Wikipedia. @Lowell - I grew up in Beverly, so I only went to high school in Palmyra, but my aunts and uncles all lived in the house I live in now, and until they moved in with us, my grandparents lived in an apartment on Main Street in Riverton - so I spent alot of time around here as a kid. My Uncle Leonard graduated from PHS in 1941 and my mother (Phyllis Van Bibber) graduated in 1947 (She lived in the house at the end of my street that used to be a little gray bungalow). She was one of 21 Cinnaminson 8th graders in 1943. One of her teachers was Miss Rush, for whom the Eleanor Rush school is named, I had brothers graduate from Palmyra in 1968 (Terry Horton - sometimes went by Bob) and in 1971 (Barry), I was class of 1975.

@John...back in those days Cinnaminson didn't even have a high school...OR most of the houses that cover the town now a days.

I reckon kids would be smarter these here days if we got rid of the schools!

Lowell, you're Steve Heller wouldn't have happened to have a sister named Nancy by chance, would he?

@ John. Please do ALL of us a favor and keep the comments about the current state of the townships economy off of this thread. I do not think that Ms Piersons intentions were for anyone to go the route you are obviously trying to get them to go. I think that after tonights township meeting, there will be plenty of other stories for you to rip apart.

Here's one some of you newcomers may not know about. Take a look at the municipal building in Palmyra. Mentally take away the additions on the building's left, and take out the lowest floor where the police station was. What you have left was the original Epworth Methodist Church - that's why the cemetary is behind it. One of the main reasons they moved was because of the train whistles interupting services.
Oh, and the Lutheran church at Broad and Highland was originally a bank! And the chiropractor on Cinnaminson Avenue was one of 3 Snover Funeral Homes.

The property where CHS and Rush School are located was once owned by Father Divine, a religious leader who was well known in the 30s, 40s and 50s.It is unknown whether he ever lived there, but his church had vast real estate holdings. He also owned the Divine Lorraine Hotel on North Broad Street in Philadelphia, one of the first integrated hotels in the country. Jim Jones, of the Peoples Temple, was one of his followers, and tried to take over the Father Divine's church after the pastor died in 1965 in Gladwyne, PA.