1922: OLD TIMERS ONLY!

Michael said...

Tom:
Mercer Bag, and Burlap owned by the Entin Brothers, it was not on John Fitch way. It was located on Bridge & Bloomsbury St. just as you exited the "Trenton Makes" bridge in NJ.
Along John Fitch way was Sokalner Brothers Hides, furs and Skins.
This was the corner of Fall St., and where my day was foreman for most of his young life. Nearly all the family, brother's, sister, Uncles,and they even tried to recuit me to work there.
Just north was the Stryker Machine. Than my favorite; "the horsin Alley, where the local junk men stabled their horses at the end of each day. My brother in law Joe Bastecki who lived across the Bloomsbury St, would sneak the horse out at night and ride them along the grassy portion of River road. Beyond Princeton Worsted Mills, where my mother and most the the neighbor ladies worked during WWII was a garbage dump where we used to shoot rats. Than Bob Lavine's "Trenton Dressed Beef" slaugherhouse. Than a junk yard, the blacksmith shop with its big fire pit, and huge anvil, Up Near the corner where the bridge over the Assumpink was "Trenton Auto parts" Junk yard. South of the Trenton makes bridge was a very colorful bottle recyling business run by Mike "Magooch" Mucci.

Hopes this fills in some of the gray matter.

Mike Kuzma

Monday, January 16, 2012

AS USUAL, MANY THANKS FOR YOUR INTERESTING KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN WHICH YOU GREW UP, MIKE. YOUR KNOWLEDGEABLE INPUT IS A VALUED ADDITION TO THE HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS AREAS WE ARE POSTING. AS YOU CAN SEE BY THE ARTICLE ABOVE, THE MERCER BAG AND BURLAP COMPANY MUST HAVE HAD A FACTORY AS YOU DESCRIBED. I ASSUME THE STRUCTURE I RECALL WAS PROBABLY A STORAGE WAREHOUSE ALONG JOHN FITCH WAY. I I SEEM TO REMEMBER SEEING THE BUILDING AND I SEEM TO RECALL THAT THERE WAS A LOADING DOCK RIGHT ALONG THE HIGHWAY, UNLESS I AM FALSELY REMEMBERING A LOADING DOCK AT ANDY'S AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLY.

TOM GLOVER

How familiar this sign was as we drove along the old John Fitch Way, and headed into the War Memorial area of Trenton! Remember "Andy's Automotive?" Do you emember any other company's that were along John Fitch Way. I seem to recall "Mercer Bag and Burlap Co." and Stryker Machine Co. as being there....can anyone help me and my fading memory of that area?