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Friday, May 10, 2013

1934: SOUTH WARREN STREET LOOKING SOUTH

Believe me ladies and gentlemen, the only folks who will recognize this view of the 100 block of South Warren Street are those of us in the advanced senior citizen community. As we traveled down South Warren Street, instead of making that left turn which takes us to South Broad Street, South Warren Street continued south and was a lively are for various businesses. Remember Penn Jersey? "Tilden for Brakes?

7 comments:

rayfromvillapark said...

Hi Tom, So glad you have posted a couple of new photos. These always arouse my interest. This is at the intersection of Front St. The man speaking with the traffic cop, is either 4'9", or that is one big cop. Actually, the patrolman is more than likely standing on some sort of platform. He is still pretty vulnerable out there. Within the next couple of years, Abe Himmelstein (spelling?) would obtain a Chrysler, Plymouth franchise, and open in the first building to the left, occupied by Robinson Supply Co., and would remain there, until he built the ultra modern showroom on South Broad St, at Third (just at the S curve), in 1949. The Deluxe Diner would close, and a service station would open at that location. I'm very curious about the Used Car sign on the opposite side of the street, down at the next corner. Is it possible. that Abe ran a used car business at that location, before getting the Chrysler franchise. Nice 1931 Chevrolet DeLuxe sedan parked in front of the Diner and a new 1934 Ford coming North on Warren. Casa Lido Bar & Restaurant, also seen to the left. I do remember Tilden Brakes, down further on the right, and also the flooding that encompassed this area, in 1955, I think? A lot to see in this great view. rayfromvillapark

Anonymous said...

Ray:

Wasn't it "ARRON" Himmelstein who with his brother Sam started "Capitol Motors" at this corner? Ii remember them buying the lot on the corner of So.Broad, and Third Sts. bounded by the railroad tracks and Federal Sts. and buildig the new modern showroom you speak of.
There was a third brother who was an Antique dealer.
I grew up a fewl blocks down South Warren St. next to the Trent House when we moved around the corner from Fall St.
The Casa Lido is self evident, but he great resturant on the next Corner & Laffayette St. was the "New Presto" Which always had a 25 pound roasted turkey and Baked ham in the window. I was born a year or so before this photo was taken, and remember walking up to the hill on Warren to State with my mother. Most of the merchants were friends or neighbors.
Great photos produce super memories.

Mike Kuzma

rayfromvillapark said...

Mike, You are right, Abe is Aaron Himmelstein. I couldn't remember Sam's name at all. I had an opportunity to purchase Paul Whiteman's 1956 Chrysler Imperial, when he
traded it in at Capitol Motors, but couldn't come up the the cash fast enough. It was like new. I believe Whiteman lived in New Hope, PA, at the time. He billed himself as the King of Jazz, back in the twenties. I only mention this, in case there are any youngsters reading this. His recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, put his orchestra on the map. rayfromvillapark

Anonymous said...

Ray:

I remember not only his car, but Paul Whhiteman himself.
Actually he lived in Deleware Township just north of Stockton.
He loved to ride his horse into Stockton and imbide at the Colligan;s Stockton Inn Right on Rt. 29 in the heart of Stockton, facing Bridge St. This is the hotel at which all the celebrities stayed during the Lindberg Baby Kidnapping trieal in nearby Flemington. Moss Hart, Walter Winchell, and Dorothy Killgallen were among those in residence there. Paul would command a seat on the end of the bar, and drnk till closing, and someoney took him and his horse home.
Colligans was ( sitll is, the lat tie my family gathered there for dinner) a most charming place which had a wishing well out on the Terrace. Thhis was the ins[eration for the hit song, "There is a small hotel,with a wishing well"!
Seeing his Immperial inspited me to own one ( used of course) in 1963.

Regards

Mike Kuzma

Tom Glover said...

I love Paul Whiteman's music. I have a few of his old radio shows on reel to reel audio tapes. As a teen, I fell in love with his lovely daughter who was Hollywood pretty.

Tom

Anonymous said...

Colligan's Stockton Inn; wasn't that made famous in song? Da, da, da, hotel .... with a wishing well? Tom, it was before my time but I remember my Dad singing it.

Ed Millerick

Anonymous said...

I had to look it up, "A Small Hotel" and it was a Rogers and Hart song that was on Broadway.

Ed M