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Monday, November 08, 2010

1931: MAKE YOUR THANKSGIVING DAY RESERVATIONS NOW!

A full course turkey dinner with all the trimmings for the princely sum of $1.00, $1.25, and $1,75, and a Thanksgiving "Dinner Deluxe" at Trenton's Hotel Hildebrecht for $2.00! Area restaurants and merchants were checking their costs and deciding how much they can cut prices and make a less than normal profit. Sound familiar? So here we are 70 years later realizing that what goes around does indeed come around!
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Ralph Lucarella said...
HI TOM...THAT AD IS ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW MUCH BETTER WE WERE BACK IN THE 30'S. TO BEGIN WITH, THE NUMBER OF RESTAURANTS IN THE AREA WERE NUMEROUS. IN ADDITION TO THE DINNERS, THEY PROVIDED LIVE MUSIC FOR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE. THE TWO BEST HOTELS IN THE CITY FOR $2.00 PER PERSON IS UNBELIVEABLE. THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A DEPRESSION BUT IN SOME WAYS THE COST OF LIVING MADE IT BEARABLE. LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE OLDEN DAYS.
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Blogger SJBill said...
The Geneva Restaurant was later called the Geneva Inn. It was still in business well into the 60's or longer. I can almost remember the owner's name - Don (but not the last name). He was another of Big Brownie and Whitey. There was a string of restaurants out in the 'Burbs, that seemed kinda related. The others were The Marroe Inn (beside the Baker's Basin Inspection Station) and Don Young's, on Olden Ave. How were they related? They all had mysterious fires while past their prime, IIRC.
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  1. Ralph LucarellaMonday, November 08, 2010

    HI TOM...THAT AD IS ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW MUCH BETTER WE WERE BACK IN THE 30'S. TO BEGIN WITH, THE NUMBER OF RESTAURANTS IN THE AREA WERE NUMEROUS. IN ADDITION TO THE DINNERS, THEY PROVIDED LIVE MUSIC FOR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE. THE TWO BEST HOTELS IN THE CITY FOR $2.00 PER PERSON IS UNBELIVEABLE. THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A DEPRESSION BUT IN SOME WAYS THE COST OF LIVING MADE IT BEARABLE. LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE OLDEN DAYS.

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  2. SJBillTuesday, November 09, 2010

    The Geneva Restaurant was later called the Geneva Inn. It was still in business well into the 60's or longer. I can almost remember the owner's name - Don (but not the last name). He was another of Big Brownie and Whitey. There was a string of restaurants out in the 'Burbs, that seemed kinda related. The others were The Marroe Inn (beside the Baker's Basin Inspection Station) and Don Young's, on Olden Ave.

    How were they related? They all had mysterious fires while past their prime, IIRC.

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  3. JoeZThursday, November 11, 2010

    Full course dinners for those prices and entertainment to boot. I love reading this stuff and Ralph makes it seem like yesterday, God Bless.

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