Once again, sincere thanks to the Duke University Library Archives for this beautiful photo of the intersection of Chambers and Liberty Street as it looked when I was a boy of 14 back in 1947. It takes a bit of detective work as well as Photoshop knowledge to locate some of these photos due to the fact that the landscape has changed over these 63 years. I enhanced the destination window on the bus, and see that the bus has its destination as "PERRY ST. TERMINAL;" which is what our L9 Liberty Street" bus displayed as it left the dead end at Cedar Lane and Olden Avenues back in my neighborhood in Hamilton township. Hence, the bus is heading to the terminal on Liberty Street and getting ready to cross Chambers Street.(I love that Studebaker crossing Chambers Street!)
Hi Tom, That is one of my favorite Studebaker's. It is a 1941 Commander or President Skyway Sedan. It's too small of a view, and at an angle that makes it hard to tell which series it is. The Skyway was a mid year model, that came equipped with fender skirts as standard. Most of them were two toned, as this one is. My company manufactured 1/43rd scale models of this car, a few years ago, in both sedan and coupe versions. The car in the photo also has optional bumper guards and fog lights. The car in the foreground is a 1937 Chevrolet Coach.
During the 1950s, I rode through this intersection hundreds of times on my Schwinn Hornet, riding from our house in Villa Park, to my grandmother's house on Woodland St. These Maxwell photos are terrific, and bring back many memories of the old Trenton, I loved so dearly. rayfromvillapark
Thursday, December 15, 2011
THANKS, RAY. YOUR COMMENTS RE OLD CARS SEEMS TO JIBE WITH MY INTEREST IN SEEING THOSE OLD BEAUTIES AS THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE "NEW." THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I ACTIVELY LOOK FOR OLD BLACK AND WHITE MOVIES THAT HAVE A LOT OF OUTDOOR SCENES AND ROAD SCENES WITH CARS. BACK WHEN I WAS A TEEN, MY FAVORITE CARS ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE THE "OFF BRANDS" LIKE STUDEBAKER, HUDSON, PACKARD AND NASH. THE PROPAGANDA OF THE DAY WAS THAT THOSE OFF BRANDS WERE NOT A GOOD BUY BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD TRADE IN VALUE.
That little fence next to the car closest to us was there until CVS bought a bunch of properties there (including the little barber shop) and built a drug store on that corner in the 1990s:)