What beautiful memories this photo evokes! This is the Trenton of my teen years and right up in to the 1960's when the town was destroyed by fires and rioting. A warm feeling comes over me as I focus on that spot right about where that 1949 For is approaching Broad Street. Had you been there on many Thursday nights at the stroke of 9 PM, you would have seen a blue 1941 DeSoto idling at the curb, just beyond the Trenton Transit "NO PARKING BUS STOP" sign. I was waiting for the 9 O'clock closing of Yard's where my wife Judy was leaving her counter as a sales girl in the Yard's "Infants' Wear Department." I was only there for a very few fleeting moments and kindly officer Chet Hughes always looked the other way. A small memory, but deeply embedded in my deepest archives. I can still see officer Chet at that intersection those 50 plus years ago; he was my idea of the ideal policeman. He didn't even know me; just my familiar old DeSoto, but I knew him!Crossing over the street to the opposite corner, reminds me of those Christmas shopping visits we made to downtown Trenton. A left turn and down the hill to Goldberg's or Gimbels. Or perhaps my very first date with Judy as I took my lovely bride to be to the RKO Capitol where we saw "SHOW BOAT." Sorry you must endure these memories of an old man who loved the era in which he grew up.
- Tuesday, March 06, 2012
- Anonymous said...
Tom, the song by the Hollies is a generation apart but when you posted that picture of the Bell Tell operators that other day those memories came back. The song was "Bus Stop" and our initial flirtations started while she rode by on the Hiltonia and I waited by the Bell Tell. Later, I would be shown the same courtesy while parked waiting to pick her up from here shift as an operator and as the song line said .. "that's the way the whole thing started, silly but it's true". Thanks for the connection and once or twice when she was on duty she would ring me up of course they were "watched" so it was always short and sweet. :)
Ed Millerick - RALPH LUCARELLA said...
YOU GUYS NEVER HAD PROBLEMS LIKE I ENCOUNTERED TRYING TO FIND PARKING TO DELIVER PARCEL POST TO THE STORES. MOST OFFICERS ALLOWED US TO USE THE NO PARKING SPACE, THANK GO.
A generation following yours, but the song my the Hollies "Bus Stop" always brings back the memories of my high school sweet heart and our flirtations as I waited for the bus and she came by on the "T Hiltonis". Later, I would be shown the same courtesy when I picked her up from her shift as an operator in the old Bell Tell building. As it said in the song .. "that's the way the whole thing started, silly but it's true."
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Ed Millerick
Tom, the song by the Hollies is a generation apart but when you posted that picture of the Bell Tell operators that other day those memories came back. The song was "Bus Stop" and our initial flirtations started while she rode by on the Hiltonia and I waited by the Bell Tell. Later, I would be shown the same courtesy while parked waiting to pick her up from here shift as an operator and as the song line said .. "that's the way the whole thing started, silly but it's true". Thanks for the connection and once or twice when she was on duty she would ring me up of course they were "watched" so it was always short and sweet. :)
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YOU GUYS NEVER HAD PROBLEMS LIKE I ENCOUNTERED TRYING TO FIND PARKING TO DELIVER PARCEL POST TO THE STORES. MOST OFFICERS ALLOWED US TO USE THE NO PARKING SPACE, THANK GO.
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