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I really appriciate your blog. I was born 1926 in Trenton and as a young delinquent I wander all over trenton with my buddy David, I always had a love for Trenton and still do. I wsed to swim in the baby pond on east state street and attended most of all the schools in Trenton, including the Peabody School on Hanover street, Keep up the good work. Jim

Jeanne Bush - 2006-02-05 18:04:34

Member of Central Baptist Church - have heard

you speak at the ROATS luncheons several times

and enjoyed it very much.

Richard A Gervasoni - 2006-02-05 17:25:37

have always enjoyed reading your column, I have great memories of growing up in Chambersburg during the forties and fifties. Keep up the good work

Ed McElroy - 2006-02-05 17:13:10

Thanks Tom. I really enjoy tour column and now this website!! I really get a kick out of all local history, especially anything to do with Lawrence Twp. where I grew up, Hamilton where my mother , Dolores Cleary McElroy hails from, and Ewing where my wife grew up. Thanks again!

George Goldy - 2006-02-05 17:05:04

Tom

Always enjoy your articles. I'm going to talk to Nancy Morrissey re Lakeside Park. I knew all of the Holzbaurs, Hansens and MacTaggarts.I previously sent you an article re Lakeside Park which you published on March 6, 1998. All the best.

Rich Kitchin - 2006-02-05 16:56:04

Tom,

Great Web site and a wonderful way to share the area's recent past.

I have a Web site about the area's contributions to professional baseball (www.mercerbaseball.com) and I'm adding a link from there to your page.

Looking forward to more fascinating snapshots from times past.

Thanks.

Nancy Morrissey - 2006-02-05 15:28:48

I learned of your site from the Times. I always read you column and find it very interested. Our family (Holzbaur, Hansen, MacTaggart)have been in the Trenton area since the early 1800's and the Holzbaurs were sponsored by the Roebling family to work as a carpenter. The family was part of the 1st Presb church of Trenton, buried in the Trenton cem. and their burials were moved to Greenwood Cem in 1899 when the old cem was cut and built upon. I am the family historian and have access to extensive family pictures of the Lakeside Park area from 1900's where the family built homes around the Lake. I bookmarked your site.

Bob Kausch - 2006-02-05 08:15:03

I learned about this site from your article in yesterday's Times. I like the way you mix original photos and articles with your personal commentary to relay the history of the Trenton area. For a non-native--but a 35+ year resident--it would be helpful if you included a base map that gave the historic place-names superimposed on a modern day map. I've enjoyed your writings for a long time and I will be checking your site often.

Shawn Lov Livernoche - 2006-02-05 07:51:51

Tom, I want to thank you- still being a young man and having grown up in Trenton at a time where dope, crack- cocaine and the whimms of blood gang members and hooligans rule the streets, it is bittersweet to see what life, culture and events in the news were like in the years before my time! I am a dedicated fan of your website and I eagerly await new additions! I am sorry that I have nothing to contribute, but seeing new photography and bits of info from the past are not lost on my generation.

Shawn

Heidi Coleman - 2006-02-05 04:35:06

Great website. I will be checking in on a regular basis. I have lived in Hamilton for 34 years. Currently I am in the Yardville section. I am looking forward to reading more about Yardville. Keep up the great work.

Charles Anderson - 2006-02-05 03:46:16

I grew up in Trenton. We lived close to the center of town.Cooper St. E.front St.

W.Hanover St.We lived on Moffat Ave During the

War 1944-45. Went to Kuser School 4th & 5th

grade. Have manny fond memories of Trenton.

it was a buseling town @ one time.

Mary "D' Ocean County just moved from East Amwell N. J. - 2006-02-05 03:19:01

What a wonderful website, I always look forward to reading your column, I was born and raised in Hamilton Square, would love to see more articles on the 1950's graduated Hamilton High School in 1956, thanks and keep up this wonderful site.

Jim Ross - 2006-02-05 03:09:21

Having lived in Hamilton (Duck Island)all my life, I always enjoy your column. I have a friend who was a lifeguard at the Trenton Beach sometime in the '60's. Also went to Hamilton High West with Ellen Glover - very nice girl. Any relative?

peggy heath carey - 2006-02-05 00:31:13

REALLY ENJOY YOUR COLUMN AND ALSO bILL dWYER'S AHEAD OF YOURS ORIGNALLY FROM CHAMBERSBURG kEEP UP THE GOOD WORK-

John Theotono - 2006-02-04 22:56:15

Tom, great job. I am very interested in the history of this area - being fairly new. We live in a house that was built in the 1730's in Groveville. Looks very much like the John Abbott II House, including a "borning room" and an addition from the mid 1800's.

Sure will continue to check in to see your latest posts. Thanks

Carmen Bisignano - 2006-02-04 22:52:50

I think I'm going to enjoy this colum. I was around in the 40's & 50's in North Treton area.

Claire Dwier Zarr - 2006-02-04 22:10:48

I read your column in The Times and have always enjoyed it, so I had to visit this site. I'm glad I did--it's great! I'm so pleased that someone is working hard to gather and share our local history! I'll certainly check my personal 'archives' for any old photos or articles of interest and will gladly get in touch if I find any that are noteworthy.

Don Nolan - 2006-02-04 21:55:21

Tom,

Great job and thanks a lot.

Don Nolan

Mary Ann Candelori - 2006-02-04 21:46:24

I love your blog. Very interesting. I just found it but hope you included some info from the 50's. I will look around it and see. Keep up the good work.

Robert Roman - 2006-02-04 21:30:59

I love your blog. I just spent the last hour with my grandmother(she's 86) a life long Trenton/Lawrence Twp resident. Her eyes lit up!! Thanks for your efforts.

I was just wondering if you have any information about a soccer club from East Trenton called the Phantoms. My grandfather played with them in the 1930's.

Again thanks !!

John Rydberg - 2006-02-04 21:01:26

I enjoyed reading your reprint of an 1869 article about the Swamp Angel. This important relic of the Civil War deserves all of the publicity it can get.

Mr. & Mrs Donald Hoffman - 2006-02-04 20:50:39

Great articles and picutres.

Stephen S. Benner - 2006-02-04 20:27:41

Mr. Glover,

Great show! Keep posting the old Trenton stories and photos. My family and I moved to the corner of Greenwood and South Walter Aves. in 1955- right after the '55 flood. I caught the tail end of Trenton's "Glory Days" and I sure do miss 'em now.

Keep up the great work,

Steve B.

Stephen S. Benner - 2006-02-04 20:24:06

Mr. Glover,

Great show! Keep posting the old Trenton stories and photos. My family and I moved to the corner of Greenwood and South Walter Aves. in 1955- right after the '55 flood. I caught the tail end of Trenton's "Glory Days" and I sure do miss 'em now.

Keep up the great work,

Steve B.

Jim Maloney - 2006-02-04 20:23:54

Tom,

Finally got on. Must have been a glitch that kept me out earlier today. Some very interesting items on display. Keep up the good work.

Alan Wildblood - 2006-02-04 20:01:02

I am back because the guestbook did not publish my address, which is

wildbood@blinx.de

Maybe some long-lost friend or foe will find me thanks to your intercession.

Alan Wildblood - 2006-02-04 19:56:58

Tom, I discovered your site via the column in the Times, which I have been reading on line in Germany since December 1996. This is the best thing you have ever done! Fancy seeing Diane Corelli below. I believe she is married to a next-door neighbor of mine in Mercerville. Hope you live to be 100!

Your reader in Berlin, SHS 1961

JMS - 2006-02-04 19:12:23

Looking for a diner located on Warren st. about the late 40's, called Happy's Diner.One of editions of the Times had a photo of diner and my late grandmother and brother standing in front. My grandmother was the owner. I would appreciate any info you could come across. JMS

diane corelli - 2006-02-04 18:54:34

Think you site is great. Always read your articles in the Times. I grew up with my brother and sister in Trenton and we all have many fond memories of those years in the 40's and 50's.

bob walter , (deutzville) - 2006-02-04 18:49:05

class of 51, hamilton high

June Knight O'Hare - 2006-02-04 18:46:37

I have enjoyed your newspaper articles for many years and I look foward to any information re th Broad St. Park area and Hamilton High School especially the years 1945-1955. Thanks again for the memories.

Marilyn Abbott-Nurko - 2006-02-04 18:06:54

Enjoy your column in the Times. Great pictures at your site. My late husband was an East Trenton guy involved in the old Olden AA soccer league and the sports teams in the 50's. Hope you have some pictures from that era.

carole ciesell - 2006-02-04 17:39:03

just saw your website, looking for signatures of people I knew, graduated 1959 from Hamilton high west, now living in West Virginia

Rich Hutchinson - 2006-02-04 17:31:43

Good to see the site! I enjoy your column in the Times. Look forward to visting regularly.

John Van Wagoner - 2006-02-04 16:53:31

Is there a way to enlarge te captions on the bottom of your pictures so we can read them? The 1941 class of Central High in Pennington,NJ will be out 65 years this year. So we share many of your interests and will look forward to see your updates on the computer. THANKS!! JVW

Jerrold Stout - 2006-02-04 16:39:18

Nice web site. Great memories.

Central H.S. of Hopewell Twp. Class of 55.

Bill Schenck - 2006-02-04 16:03:28

I did not tell the teacher that you wet your pants.

It was probably Fred Grove I told on.

Enjoyed reading your site.

Carole Grice GIlbert - 2006-02-04 15:43:19

Thank you for the memories both here and in the newspaper articles....please keep it coming.

HHS Class of '55

Carol A. Errickson - 2006-02-04 12:38:05

Fran and Noel Goeke told me about your website. I've just started scrolling through it and have bunches of praise for your work on this fantistic site. Once I have a computer project finished (typesetting the Hopewell Valley Historical Society's newsletter), I will return to it and take a closer, longer look.

Thanks again!

Carol

Frank Mennuti - 2006-02-02 21:21:02

I'm realy amazed at all the information you were able to obtain about the past in both Hamilton and Trenton.Also all the old pictures you are able to get,some of them bring back a lot of old memories.Am 85 years old may 6, 1920.Also a member of dvra associaton (w2iht} all for now Best wishes

F.M.

Lloyd tasker - 2006-02-02 07:17:47

Great site Tom ! It's interesting to see how the area has changed through the years. It was odd to see a 4 digit phone number on one of the old ads. Keep up the great work!

Noel Goeke - 2006-02-02 02:13:45

Spent many evenings with my wife at Del Rio's eating a grilled ham and cheese sandwich on a torp. cooked over the open oak fire.

Vigilanty Committee is still in existence today in Hopewell Township.

Great site Tom. Will be a regular visitor.

Judy Kelly - 2006-01-30 22:38:14

I AM married to Spider KELLYS GRANDSON AND WAS VERY HAPPY TO OPEN YOUR SITE AND FIND HIS PICTURE DISPLAYED.hOPE YOU CAN COME UP WITH MORE INFO ON THIS GREAT MAN.THANKS.great site

Catherine Cooper - 2006-01-29 22:14:23

Enjoyed your web site and hope to hear more from you.

Bernard P. Kelly - 2006-01-29 17:32:54

Enjoyed your site. Will send some materials from both my Dad(Bernard Kelly - Diver) and Gradfather(John A. "Spider" Kelly - Boxer).

Joan Morgan - 2006-01-26 21:51:09

Truly enjoyed paging through the tons of wonderful info on your site.

Don't know if this goes back too far but my Grandfather was known as John "Spider" Kelly (deceased in May 1937). He was an honorary professor at Princeton University and taught boxing there. But the family also owned a gym and a candy store. I just saw that I cannot attach pictures but I do have picture of my Grandfather and the store.

Don Hutchinson - 2006-01-25 19:23:51

HHS--Class of 1949

, Lalor ---1945

Your presentation was very interesting. I have some pictures of Lalor School kids , but I'm in Florida right now. When I get home in June I'll send them to you.Any instructions I should know?

Bill Donnelly - 2006-01-25 14:46:51

Very much enjoyed your web-site. I grew up on Roberts Avenue, in Bromley and attended Farmingdale school from 1941 to 1944. I owned the star in the middle of that huge vestible. I spent more time standing on it (For punishment) than the rest of the school combined. Roberts Avenue was considered poor, even in those days. But it was a great street with the best people imaginable. It was racially mixed, but no-one there realised or thought about it.

Marcia Sherman Davis - 2006-01-25 05:55:34

Wow, is all I can say. How did you ever compile all these. Have been away from Trenton for more than 50 years but many of the sites brought back memories. Great job. I even found a long lost elementary school classmate.

Frances Young Goeke - 2006-01-25 04:17:34

Tom: Congratulations on the work you are doing. What a treasure you are compiling! Looking forward to being able to check out the in-house computer when you are ready for the public.

Frances