I worked in Ewing for a number of years before and after I was discharged from the Army. These vestiges of the past will be familiar to many of the old timers who frequent this website. I remember when "Reedman Motors" had a used car near the corner of Prospect Street and Olden Avenue. In fact, I purchased a 1952 Willys "Lark" from them. How I wish I had that wonderfully little auto today! I also recall my first McDonald's hamburger in the newly opened McDonald's on North Olden Avenue, an ice cream cone from the Carvel store on No. Olden, eating an Italian sausage at "Frank's" which was a little shack just before you entered the bank on No. Olden and Pennington Avenue. Wow, that seems like 100 years ago.RALPH LUCARELLA said...
HI TOM....I WAS JUST TELLING SOMEONE HOW MUCH YOU AND I ENJOY OUR SUBARUS WHEN YOU MENTION HAVING YOUR WILLYS BACK. JUST A JOKE, TOM. REGARDS.
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HI TOM....I WAS JUST TELLIN SOMEONE HOW MUCH YOU AND I ENJOY OUR SUBERUS WHEN YOU MENTION HAVING YOUR WILLYS BACK. JUST A JOKE, TOM. REGARDS.
- Monday, March 05, 2012
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Odd trivia, but Olden Avenue was a block behind the Olden Avenue Extension that we later knew as North Olden in a general term, it was the street behind Extension Patio. You had to be careful with directions.
I have a vague memory of a Reedman on North Olden by Prospect was that perhaps where the gas station is now? I do remember the huge ads in the paper and as a kid, we loved to ride over to "Reedmans 80 Acres" complete with a test track and guard tower. He was a true car nut and would usually showcase something like a Lamborghini Miura or Iso Griffo, exotics that we could only read about in Car and Dirver we could see at Reedmans, that and driving by his home in Yardley; it always had the latest in Rolls parked in front. If you got a car back then, it was dealers row on "33" or the "Extension" or out US-1 in PA. I guess the last Trenton hold out was Gilbert & Mott at the Monument?
Ed Millerick - Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Hi Ed: Many thanks for your interesting comments. The Reedman dealership I dealt with was on the same side of the road as Extension Patio. As to the original "Olden" Avenue before the extension, it was, and I believe still is known as "Old Olden Avenue."
Tom Glover
HI TOM....I WAS JUST TELLIN SOMEONE HOW MUCH YOU AND I ENJOY OUR SUBERUS WHEN YOU MENTION HAVING YOUR WILLYS BACK. JUST A JOKE, TOM. REGARDS.
ReplyDeleteOdd trivia, but Olden Avenue was a block behind the Olden Avenue Extension that we later knew as North Olden in a general term, it was the street behind Extension Patio. You had to be careful with directions.
ReplyDeleteI have a vague memory of a Reedman on North Olden by Prospect was that perhaps where the gas station is now? I do remember the huge ads in the paper and as a kid, we loved to ride over to "Reedmans 80 Acres" complete with a test track and guard tower. He was a true car nut and would usually showcase something like a Lamborghini Miura or Iso Griffo, exotics that we could only read about in Car and Dirver we could see at Reedmans, that and driving by his home in Yardley; it always had the latest in Rolls parked in front. If you got a car back then, it was dealers row on "33" or the "Extension" or out US-1 in PA. I guess the last Trenton hold out was Gilbert & Mott at the Monument?
Ed Millerick