LANDMARK: We would be remiss if we didn’t take a moment to mention a dear friend to RTS — the Bradford Landmark Society.

There’s a lot going on at Herbig Bakery these days. The society is marking its 50th anniversary in 2019. There’s an annual calendar packed with details from Bradford’s history. And there’s a new book called “Something’s Burning” detailing some fires through the years in Bradford.

We want to share some tidbits from the calendar.

January features a photo of the seven-man Bradford Police force, circa 1885. And each day features a piece of historical trivia from that date in the region’s history.

Jan. 2, 1937, Hanley Brick gets contract to provide brick for Radio City Music Hall

Jan. 4, 1975, The Flame restaurant burns

Jan. 6, 1994, Fisher’s Big Wheel announces that it is closing

Feb. 7, 1906, “The Divine Sarah” Bernhardt plays at Bradford Theater

March 12, 1954, Parking meters installed for the first time.

We can certainly appreciate the amount of work it took to compile such a list. And we at RTS are especially appreciative. Bradford history is one of our favorite subjects.

HISTORY: Here’s a piece of history from Dec. 27, 1900.

“Mischievous small boys caused a lot of excitement at 5:15 this afternoon on lower Main street. They opened the whistle on the dinky locomotive which was standing on the narrow gauge sidetrack of the Pennsylvania Railroad, opposite Robison’s coal office, tied down the lever and locked the door. The whistle blew incessantly and some excited individual turned in an alarm of fire from box 51. No one seemed to know what all the noise was about, but everybody felt sure that something dreadful had happened. It was finally discovered that there was no one in the cab of the locomotive and a fireman broke a window and discovered the cause of the excitement.”