In 1915, years before the city of Trenton engaged in "Urban Renewal,"merchants in the area of Mill Hill along South Broad and Market Streets embarked on a publicity program to bring shoppers from center city to their thriving businesses. To we "old timers" there are many very familiar old merchant names in the vignette above.
Tom, I remember our Sunday walks to Stacy Park in about 1952. We would stop in a bakery on Market and then I would watch the tanks of live carp on the sidewalk. Dad said that the Orthodox folks would only eat a fish they saw swimming? Then down the hill and past the prisoners peering from the bars in the basement of the Mercer Jail. Dad said they were thieves and I would hide those sweets in a pocket.
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