Thirty minutes before the Ship Bottom Borough Council’s May 29 meeting, the conversation inside the firehouse was as modern-day as it could be with a focus on parking. Shortly after 6:30 p.m., however, the mayor and council turned back time as they opened their centennial meeting with a roll call as their 1925 counterparts.

“It is with great pride that we reflect on our earliest beginnings,” Mayor William Huelsenbeck said prior to asking for the roll call to be taken.