I seem to recall that my friend,the late Meredith "Med" Havens worked for the Standard Fire Insurance Company. Old timers will...

I posted the photo below on this website many months ago and it has since been appearing here and there around the internet.However, the...

  What charming old fashioned nostalgia comes upon us when we gaze upon an old fashioned drug store soda fountains. You remember drug s...

This was the year I was born. My mom and dad were completely enveloped in the depths of the Great Depression. My father lost his "Gil...

Here's a rare photo of a little known hotel among the many that proliferated in the city of Trenton during the last century. Note the ...

This closeup view shows the popular "Terminal Diner" next to the Perry Street bus terminal. I had a cup of coffee hear back in ...

  Above is an R.C. Maxwell photo  zeroing in on Gus Heintz's bar on Chambers Street; a very popular "watering hole" back...

I tried posting this on Facebook and as usual the limits on graphic size rendered it illegible unless one has a 20 plus inch monitor whic...

Solimando and Salamandra: very familiar names in the Chambersburg of yesteryear. Indeed the two name still crop up quite frequently in my...

I see Max Introlligator's "Specials" in this full page ad from the Trenton Times, as well as Kinney Shoes  advertizing a rea...

Unfortunately this graphic is much too large even for this website. I posted it on Facebook and it is completely illegible. The original i...

This graphic is probably much too large to gain full legibility, but the line engravings will give a good idea of the Trenton in the ...

This very interesting photo of an R.C. Maxwell sign is accompanied by baskets of potatoes and who know what else? I pasted the caption at ...

Back when I was a boy 7 decades ago or more, we bought unsliced bread. Why? Money was tight. Bread cost a nickel or dime a loaf and wit...

The article above relates to a story with which I am very familiar. My career was spent in a dead end job in the bearing and power transm...

The Jewish section of South Trenton in the Union-Market Street area was once a thriving community with incredible vitality. Most old time...

Anyone who has been a Trenton area resident will recall the Balkely Laundry in that familiar North Montgomery and Brunswick Avenue loca...

How very popular Max's Department Store was back in the 1930's and early 1940's. Most of our Hamilton neighbors during those ...

This may be a duplication of an earlier post, but I must exercise the privilege of repeating an engraving that I find to be exquisite as i...

They were located at 756 E. State Street, just past Monmouth Street, over the railroad bridge, past the Crossley Maching Shop and on the l...