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Friday, June 30, 2017

1946: WEST STATE STREET IN FRONT OF WEINMANN'S RESTAURANT

Who among my more "senior" visitors can ever forget Weinmann's Restaurant on West State Street? It was an upscale restaurant back in the 1930's and 40's. Further, who can remember that legendary statuette of the jockey standing at the entrance? Almost as legendary as the old "Toddle House" just up the street a ways!

1946: STATE AND BROAD STREET; A CLOSE UP LOOK




Note that this photo replaces the originaly June 30 post wherein I inadvertently identified it as "State and Broad St." Thanks to my regular visitors, Mike Kuzma and Gino Formaroli, for detecting my ever increasing episodes of age-related senility!.

This blog has been very well received and on behalf of the Hamilton Township Public Library Local history Collection, I am very grateful for the nine hundred thousand plus visitors who come here to view over 8500 pages (posts!) I have also decided to post on only one Facebook page, and that would be my page that has nearly 1,200 friends.

Thursday, June 29, 2017

1946: STATE AND WARREN STREET

Another beautiful photo of a very familiar Trenton intersection. It almost seems one could walk along that sidewalk in this zoomed in photo.

1924: WHEN THE KKK CAME TO HAMILTON TOWNSHIP

Some years ago I wrote this interesting article recalling the day the Ku Klux Klan decided to lead a parade and picnic in and about Hamilton Township. There are hundreds of pages of Klan activity all over America in the 1920's. Indeed a number of very prominent citizens were members; many serving in a clandestine manner and not "outing" themselves in public.

Saturday, June 24, 2017

1909 PANORAMIC VIEW OF TRENTON




This graphic is much too large to give a closeup, but I sure did try. Here's an attempt to segment and enlarge.

Thursday, June 22, 2017

UNDATED STATE AND BROAD STREET

Here's an un-dated circa 1939 photo of center city Trenton showing traffic moving west on E. State Street at Broad Street. The clarity of this photo has been tweaked and enhanced and gives a beautiful view of the downtown Trenton main thoroughfare as it looked in the late 1930's