Fred Lauble lived on Cummings Avenue. His bar can be seen in the photo. It was located between Washington and Hewitt Streets in the 900 block.SJBill said...
There a few items that are dear to the memory in this image.
Clothes lines - we all had them. Some were made of braided cotton and had pullies on each end so you could load them from a second story window, but the cotton stretched under load. Ours was made of metal wire. The metal wire ones didn't stretch, but to be wiped clean of black deposits before you hung the clothes to dry. Wet clothes even dried in the Winter when it was below freezing.
The National Coal Company building was a long thin strip of buildings consisting of different bins. The coal in each bin was sorted by size - pea coal being the finest.
Was it Vroom St. on the corner? I cannot remember the name of the cemetery, but it was very small in size, only about one block long and wide.
A classmate from Junior Four through THS and Rider College lived next to the Krueger sign - Diana Wood.
I also remember Krueger Beer, though. Pretty bad stuff. ;-)
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There a few items that are dear to the memory in this image.
Clothes lines - we all had them. Some were made of braided cotton and had pullies on each end so you could load them fromm a second stroy window, but the cotton stretched under load. Ours was made of metal wire. The metal wire ones didn't stretch, but to be wiped clean of black deposits before you hung the clothes to dry. Wet clothes even dried in the Winter when it was below freezing.
The National Coal Company building was a long thin strip of buildings consisting of different bins. The coal in each bin was sorted by size - pea coal being the finest.
Was it Vroom St. on the corner? I cannot remember the name of the cemetery, but it was very small in size, only about one block long and wide.
A classmate from Junior Four through THS and Rider College lived next to the Krueger sign - Diana Wood.
I also remember Krueger Beer, though. Pretty bad stuff. ;-)
Our burg home block is in this picture it was block between hewitt and rusling. The bar had a gravel parking lot and puddles formed there in the rain and we used a cinder block and piece of wood to jump over them LOL. Yes Vroom Street is across from Washington Street and the next street up on that side is Brown Street.
I find this in the Trenton 1920 directory..
Lauble Christian, watchman, h 250 Cummings av ..
and this in the Trenton 1900 directory..
.. Lauble Christian, galvanizer, h 250 Cummings av .
US Census shows Fred is Christians son. Fred born 1891.
Christian born 1852 in Germany
wife Anna M Moser born Germany 1852. They married June 15 1883 in Chambersburg.
Freds wife Ann (Hermann) born in 1893. her mother Gertrude born in Germany.
I find a Christian Lauble born in
KURZELL, BADEN, GERMANY in 1896, dont know if its the same family.
The Baden area is southwest Germany
near Switzerland. When immigrants decided to come here they had to go about 350 miles north to Hamburg to hop a ship to New York:)
Tom reminded me of the other winter feature. There was a center heating grate in the living room and I remember a large drying rack for the clothes. It also added much needed humidity for those old coal burners. The New England homes all had a clothes line on an enclosed porch be it front or rear and used the southern exposure to keep things dry and free of snow. And remember how good the clothes smelled when you first brought them in?
Ed Millerick
Tom, I'm amazed you didn't comment on this. ;-)
Another feature of the era that exists no more - radio antennae. The vertical supports on the roof tops had ceramic or glass insulators and strung between them was braided copper wire. A branch wire lead down to the receiver in the parlor where everybody listened to Fibber McGee and all the other entertainment programs.
I'm pretty sure the internal ferrite core or flat coil antennae had not yet been implemented.
Listening to Fibber McGee was before my time but I used one of these antennae to short wave DX during the 50s and 60s with my Hallicrafters S-107.
Hey SJBill: I probably would have made a comment had I seen the actual wires of an antenna on top of those roofs instead of a couple vertical masts. Believe me, as a licensed amateur radio operator, I would have commented had I noticed a 40 or 80 Meter wire stretched into the blue.
Tom Glover
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