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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The 1000 block of South Broad Street. prominent in the photo is Adams Electric of electric chair fame. I very clearly recall Kudra Furs. The Marsh hobby shop is not in the photo but part of it is shown on this block. This is a segmented photo which has been selectively enlarged and enhanced.

SJBill said...

Notice the guy on the ladder. THat is Marsh's Hobby Shop, and it looks as though that may be Mr. Marsh himself working on the front of his small store. Today, the building looks nearly unchanged - still white front with the little roof over the front doorway.

A few doors down the street is Albert Korona Furs, then Adams Electric. Philco made a heck of a TV set in the early days.

The little white building before the Esso and Joe Kudra's Furs was a small reataurant. I remember a soups for sale sign in the front.

Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Bill: George Kudra was the name of the furrier, he had two sons, George Jr. and Mike, who I was often mistaken for since the close spelling of the surname. Just north of Kudra's 999 South Broad( or as Bernie Kosnoski would say Jeven jeven jeven South Broad alitza)on his Polka show, Using phonetics since I never went to Polish School) was the Ear nose and Throat "hospital" near the corner of Chestnut. Joe Allen was the owner of that restaurant, he and I grew up on South Warren st. Next block south, was another Hospital on the Corner, across from Capuano's fruit and produce. Great memories of a great neighborhood, and wonderful era. Thanks Tom for all you do for us old codgers.
Mike Kuzma
Let's not sell us "old codgers" short, Mike. We may be card-carrying members of "wrinkle city," but we are contributing to a very valuable historical website, even without being recognized by the Trenton Free Public Library or Mercer County Library system, along with countless Hamilton, Trenton, Ewing, and other Mercer County high profile individuals. To their credit, the Trenton Historical Society (www.trentonhistory,org) does link to us as we do to them. We just keep postin' along every day and thanks to old codgers like you, Ralph, Ed, SJJoe, etal, we are building an historic database of huge proportions!




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3 comments:

  1. SJBillTuesday, June 05, 2012

    Notice the guy on the ladder. THat is Marsh's Hobby Shop, and it looks as though that may be Mr. Marsh himself working on the front of his small store. Today, the building looks nearly unchanged - still white front with the little roof over the front doorway.

    A few doors down the street is Albert Korona Furs, then Adams Electric. Philco made a heck of a TV set in the early days.

    The little white building before the Esso and Joe Kudra's Furs was a small reataurant. I remember a soups for sale sign in the front.

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  2. AnonymousWednesday, June 06, 2012

    Bill:
    George Kudra was the name of the furrier, he had two sons, George Jr. and Mike, who I was often mistaken for since the close spelling of the surname.
    Just north of Kudra's 999 South Broad( or as Bernie Kosnoski would say Jeven jeven jeven South Broad alitza)on his Polka show, Using phonetics since I never went to Polish School) was the Ear nose and Throat "hospital" near the corner of Chestnut. Joe Allen was the owner of that restaurant, he and I grew up on South Warren st.
    Next block south, was another Hospital on the Corner, across from Capuano's fruit and produce.
    Great memories of a great neighborhood, and wonderful era.
    Thanks Tom for all you do for us old codgers.

    Mike Kuzma

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  3. MackWednesday, June 06, 2012

    I can see on the corner there what later became a little restaurant that I had breakfast a few times at in the 80s/90s :))

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