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Friday, September 30, 2011
1982: "RUSLING SCHOOL NO. 10"
1981: RAFFERTY FOR GOVERNOR?
Indeed, there would be no Hamilton Township Public Library Local History Collection. Back in the early 1990's, Jack Rafferty, Jack Lacy, Mo Rossi, and Joe Belina agreed with me that Hamilton Township was not capitalizing on its magnificent historical heritage. It was my aim to change that unfortunate reality. Jack Rafferty, unlike many local politicians in high places, had an intense interest in our local history.
1981: GROPP'S LAKE'S NEW DAM
Thursday, September 29, 2011
1981: DVRA AMATEUR OPERATORS' "FIELD DAY"
As a personal observation, amateur radio will still prove to be the saving grace for any terror attacks or other disaster that could come at any time,any place. There will always be those of us who know the Morse code, and those dedicated hams who practice emergency message handling on a daily basis in the event of a national disaster. We seldom hear of them in the local press now that the cell phone has become fashionable. However, during any real emergency, cell phone phones become virtually useless as lines become overloaded. Fortunately there will always be the ham radio fraternity standing by to fill the communications void. We have all heard of the the lack of communication during 911 when the New York Police Department and the New York Fire Department had communication problems. Such would not be the case with amateur radio should a national disaster occur. These dedicated hams are quietly standing by, ready to spring into INSTANT action!
1981: NOT FORGOTTEN: A MIRACLE PLANE CRASH
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
1981: STEINERT GIRLS' SOCCER CHAMPIONS
Mack said...
Hi Tom:)
This is actually 30 years ago. I am the class of 1980 Trenton High and these kids 1 year later:)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
MACK: THANKS FOR CORRECTING MY STUPID ERROR! I APPRECIATE YOUR HEADS UP. THE ERROR HAS BEEN CORRECTED.....LET ME SEE 1981-1991= 10, 1991-2001= 20.......
TOM
1895: Sheriff Hutchinson; My kind of lawman
1902: MUNGER TIRE COMPANY THE KUSER CONNECTION
1920's JAMES WIRTH, ICE MAN
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
1905: B.C. KUSER ESTABLISHES HOMES IN BROMLEY
Monday, September 26, 2011
1896: FRED KUSER'S "COUNTRY HOME"
Thanks
TOM GLOVER
Friday, September 23, 2011
1982: PATTI WILLEVER; A COLONIAL VFD STALWART
Thursday, September 22, 2011
1924 (Ca 1924) HONORING ST. ANTIM0
- Jeffrey E. Lee said...
Thanks for the posting. However, I believe that this photo is also in the Our Lady of the Angels-Saint Joachim parish's Centennial Hall and it represents the procession in honor of Saint Antimo. take a closer look at the image among the people. in the early years there were many processions in honor of the blessed virgin particular to towns of origin as well as processions in honor of the saints. thanks for keeping the memories at the forefront.
Peace.
Jeffrey E. Lee, PastorFriday, September 23, 2011
What a wonderful little corner of the world it was. And what a nice picture this is. Thanks Tom:)
Friday, September 23, 2011
- Ralph Lucarella said...
HI TOM....THE FEAST OF LIGHTS AS I RECALL WAS TO HONOR THE MADONNA OF CASANDRINO. THAT WAS ALWAYS ON BUTLER ST ALONG WITH THE PROCESSION THROUGHOUT CHAMBERSBURG. I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE FEAST IN ITALY WHILE MY DAUGHTER WAS WITH DELTA AIRLINES. OUR RELATIVES IN CASANDRINO WERE VERY ACTIVE IN THE FEAST AND I WITNESSED THE CELEBRATION WITH THEM. REGARDS. ALSO TOM, IN THAT PHOTO ABOVE, I WAS JUST ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD AND ONE OF THOSE KIDS COULD HAVE BEEN ME. GOD BLESS THE OLD BURG.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
2011: SIGN UP FOR A TOUR OF TRENTON
1911: TRENTON'S CONTEMPORARY CLUB
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
1900: ANTONIO MARALDO'S HALL
Mack said...
Hi Tom:)Ahh the Clin-Mott with its cool neon sign. Thanks for postig this. Again something new I learn from your site:))
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
1887: AN ITALIAN BOOTBLACK SHINES 'EM UP IN TRENTON
This is a very interesting, revealing, and most importantly, a very early article that will give visitors to this blog an idea of how the local press covered newcomers to America and in this case, Trenton.
I still remember the shoe shine boys of Trenton in the 1950's. Usually one worked each side of State Street by Broad and then the Railroad Station had a few in the lobby. Seems to me there was on in the lobby of the Hotel Hildebrecht too.Ed Millerick
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Ralph Lucarella said...
HI TOM....SHOE SHINE BOYS ALONG WITH SELLING AND DELIVERING NEWSPAPPERS WERE THE PRIME FACTORS IN TRYING TO EARN A FEW DOLLARS FOR THE KIDS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. OUR FATHERS WERE WORKING FOR FOOD ORDERS SO A LOT DEPENDED ON OTHERS IN THE FAMILY TO HELP OUT. I SOLD PAPERS DOWN TOWN FOR 2 CENTS AND EARNED A DIME OR TWO. OF COURSE THIS WAS IN THE 30'S AND THINGS STARTED TO GETR BETTER IN THE 40'S. BEST REGARDS
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
1969 IN THE TRENTON AREA; TIME MARCHES ON!
- JoeZ said...
Love those ads and you can't beat the prices.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
- Sally Logan Gilman said...
I love the old ads and always check to see if one rings a bell. My dad, Russell Logan, took me to eat at Lido Gardens in the late '40s. Could it be the same place as in the ad -- Hanover St? He used to stop at the Lido for takeout when he transferred buses to go home at night. He said the bus smelled really good. Again, Tom, thanks for the memories.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
- Anonymous said...
My gosh, look at the prices. I note the Wayside on the Pennington Circle. To put the brakes on the rumor that the Route 69 signs had to be changed for risque reasons, that is just not true.
When the "Class of 1969" freshman hit the dorms at dear old Trenton State, the DOT could not keep the signs up fast enough.
I do believe we ate much better on far less income back then.
Ed MillerickELEANOR (LAKESIDE GIRL):
RIGHT CLICK ON THE IMAGE AND CHOOSE OPEN IN ANOTHER PAGE. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO ENLARGE THE GRAPHIC,
HI TOM...SEEING THAT AD OF CEDAR GARDENS REMINDS ME OF THE TIME MY BROTHER LOU AND I BUILT THE HAMILTON BOWLING LANES ON ROUTE 33 IN 1955. WE WANTED TO BUILD IT NEXT TO CEDAR GARDENS BUT WERE UNABLE TO ACQUIRE THE GROUND. THE OWNER OF CEDAR GARDENS AT THE TIME WAS FRANK AGABITI, ONE OF THE AREA'S BEST BOWLERS. WE WERE ABLE TO GET THE GROUND DOWN THE ROAD ACTOSS FROM TONY CAL'S AND PATTERSON CHEVROLET. WHEN THE LANES WERE SOLD IN 1970 THEY MOVED THEM TO KUSER ROAD. BEST REGARDS.
Monday, September 19, 2011
1937: IT WAS KNOWN AS THE "TRENTON MARINE TERMINAL"
- JoeZ said...
Tom: I remember as a boy my Dad taking me down to the terminal when Navy ships docked. They often allowed tours on certain days. My Dad told me prior to WWII he remembers the Japanese ships buying scrap metal which he said later they paid us back with bullets. His parents lived on Cliff St. and we would often visit the terminal and go fishing too.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
- Anonymous said...
Joe, my Dad took me on those same tours. I believe they were light destroyers. Speaking of "buying iron" most of the tonnage we dropped during "The Nam" was sold to the Belgians as scrap. They sat on them and we bought the 500 pounders back at a hefty premium a few years later.
Tom, do you remember Mike Rafferty who led the Notre Dame radio club, WB2GZC? He was a great fellow.
Ed MillerickThursday, September 15, 2011
TOM GLOVER
MILL HILL UND-DATED TIMES NEWS PHOTO
Clay Street? Ask any old time resident how Clay Street was involved with the re-alignment of Greenwood Avenue back in the 1940's when the Trenton Freeway cut through numerous area neighborhoods. Greenwood Avenue once continued from South Clinton Avenue to South Broad Street.
- Anonymous said...
Tom. that was a hot topic in a course I took. The impact of the Trenton Freeway for one and how it divided neighbors, made it harder for workers who walked and such.
I was looking at Cherry and Plum Streets the other day and how they were divided.
Ed MillerickThursday, September 15, 2011
- Anonymous said...
Tom:
Growing up in South Trenton, and attending Sacred Heart, I certainly do remember Clay St.
Clay Street houses were primarily frame, whereas most of the remainder of "Mill Hill" was of solid brick construction.
I can remember as a kid, cutting through Greenwood Ave,on my daily WALK to TCHS right through to South Clinton Ave. There was a huge coal yard there. On Clay St. was a small Amoco station owned by the Gambino's who went on to own the yellow cab company.
When I proposed the first residential rehabilitation projdect in NJ, it was the Mercer-Jackson project that was bounded by Livingston St. South Montgomery, and included both Mercer, and Jackson Streets and bounded by the north side of Market. Due to it's overwhelming success, it sprawled over Market St. and became known as "Old Mill Hill" As a City Planner in the early 1960's, I saw the wisdom of the man made barrier known as the "Rt. 1 Freeway" Much like the City of Seattle, where I-5 and it;s 12 lanes sever the highly successful all commercial downtown from the heavily urbanized residential neighborhood. No one out there dare steal a pocket book and try to cross thos 12 lanes to get back to their crew in the neighborhood! Sometime we can't see the forest for the Trees.
BTW, half way down Greenwood Ave. between Jackson and Mercer Sts. was St. Paul's Lutheran Church. After mass at Sacred Heart, I would walk over and sit in on Sunday School which always had great treats for those good little Angles! LOL
Best regards
Mike KuzmaThursday, September 15, 2011
John & Robert were before me but i knew their families well. Picture looks like late 1930s.
About 12 homes on Clay Street were torn down to make way for the freeway. Lewis Street was also cut off at the same time with homes torn down also.I remember walking across the RR bridge on my way to THS before it was closed. Clay Street was a grand old neighborhood.
Noel Goeke
Thank you, Noel. I was thinking of you when I posted this and was expecting your expertise on the neighborhood.
Tom
1969: HARRY LIEBERMAN DEMOCRAT CLUB
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
1952: ONE OF MY FAVORITE PHOTOS
- Anonymous said...
By the cars, that was about 1952? Clinging to a coat sleeve I can smell the peanuts and hear the rattle of the poor souls who used to scoot around on platforms. Mom said they lost legs during the first war.
I too met my HS sweetie in a bus stop flirtation only a block away, she rode the "T Hiltonia".
Ed MillerickTuesday, September 13, 2011
- Sally Logan Gilman said...
State and Broad -- one of my favorite spots in downtown Trenton. That's where I got the bus to go home to West Trenton. Tom, you do my heart good. Regards
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
- rayfromvillapark said...
Hi Tom, Bugles in the Afternoon, was released in 1952, so that dates the photograph. The two cars in the photo are a 1949 Plymouth to the left, and a 1950 Chevrolet on the right, which is actually a Terminal Cab taxi, waiting for a fare at their stand on the corner of State and Broad. I purchased many a car related magazine at the news stand in the photo, but I don't remember the name of the business. I think the news stand on North Warren, near the corner of Hanover, was Whitey's. Trenton in it's heyday, no more! Rayfromvillapark
Thursday, September 15, 2011
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM WITH MANY MORE TO COME. STOLAT
Thursday, September 29, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM....BIRTHDAYS ARE OCCURING RAPIDLY FOR BOTH OF US. LET'S HOPE WE'RE STILL AROUND WHEN THINGS IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE TRENTON AREA GET BETTER FOR EVERYONE. BEST WISHES
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tom - Have a happy and very blessed birthday! Hoping the next year is all you want it to be!
Lakeside Girl
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Happy Birthday Tom - sorry I'm a little late but busy day on Thursday! Love reading your blog! On vacation next week and hope to stop by the library to give you some more stuff I found. Take care and have a Great Weekend.
Steve Jr
Friday, September 30, 2011