2013: A CONVENIENT GOOGLE SEARCH TOOL

This website has reached "maturity;" the point where there are 8,000 plus pages. With that maturity has come many pages with many differing subjects. Searching those many pages can be a daunting task. I find that Google provides a very fast and easy way to find a specific subject buried within the 8,000 plus pages. Use the information in the graphic and try it. You will find many pages dealing with the subject for which you are searching. This process also works for BING, ALTA VISTA, and probably others, but the search is not as productive, due to the fact that GOOGLE is the home of my website. Try it; you will be saving a lot of time and effort.  

Examples: type in tom glover hamilton trenton Lucarella, or Kuzma, or Trenton Catholic, or Trenton high school, or Mott school, etc, and you will probably find any and all posts containing those search subjects.  

2012: GOOGLE'S "BLACK MARK"

As you get into earlier posts on this website, you will see the above black square with a "!" inside of a triangle. This represents a deleted graphic which was posted AFTER I downloaded Picasa which is an EXCELLENT graphics program. Picasa imports ALL of the graphics on your computer and assembles them into folders as found on your computer. Unfortunately, Picasa didn't have a very large WARNING! message advising the user that any files of folders deleted from Picasa would also delete them from the website. Additionally there is no option to UNDO the deletions.

BOTTOM LINE: ALONG WITH THIS WEBSITE, THERE ARE COUNTLESS HUNDREDS OF GOOGLE WEB SITES HOSTED BY GOOGLE THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS UNFORTUNATE PROBLEM.

This is indeed a problem, HOWEVER, there is a bright side to this bump in the road. As I restore all the graphics I can find, I am also indexing "Labels" each as I recover and save the graphic or graphics.

2012: I NEED MORE RALPH LUCARELLA-TYPE VISITORS:

Ralph, I hope you understand the valued insights you prove with the many comments you have posted on various pages of this website. An advanced age senior citizen with the mental abilities you have is a very rare asset to this local history blog. I, and a number of my very valuable visitors are a decade or so behind you in age, and they also have been the source of incredibly valuable history. Mike Kuzma, Noel Goeke, and other loyal visitors have also added immeasurably to the value and viability of this site. The comment below arrived today from Ralph and was the catalyst for my comment above:

RALPH LUCARELLA said...

HI TOM...I'M ONE GUYS WHO WAS BORN AT THE END OF WORLD WAS 1 AND RECALL MY FATHER GETTING DRAFTED AT FORT DIX. I'M TOLD THEY DRILLED WITH BROOM STICKS IN PLACE OF RIFLES. HE WAS LUCKY TO GET CALLED AT THE END. I CAN REMEMBER CHAMBERSBURG AND THE THANKFUL RESPONSE TO THE ROEBLING PLANT THAT SUPPLIED THE AREA WITH WORK. THE WONDERFUL SMELL OF TOMATO PIES AS YOU WALKED PAST PAPA'S ON BUTLER STREET. THE PUSH CARTS AND STREET CLEANERS THAT KEPT THE STREETS CLEAN AND THE TRUCKS THAT CANVASSED THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. CARS WERE NOT A PROBLEM YET WHILE EVERYONE WALKED OR RODE A BIKE TO WHERE THEY WERE GOING. YOUR SITE BRINGS BACK ALL THOSE MEMORIES FOR THE OLD TIMERS TO CHERISH. MAY GOD BLESS US ALL IN OUR OLD AGE AND PRAY THAT TODAY'S PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED. BEST REGARDS.

2005 - 2011: THIS IS MY FRIEND, THE LATE "HAPPY" GLOVER

Only those of us who are animal lovers know the joy of having a dog or cat as a pet. They give you unconditional love. Above is a photo of "Happy;"truly "man's best friend." I have had a pet dog all my life from "Sniffy," a little Fox Terrier when I was a young lad of 6 or 7. Someone stole him and I spent days walking the neighborhood calling him. Happy was a replacement for "Shadow," also a Husky, who lived to be 13 years old. Happy developed diabetes and I tried to stabilize her sugar level, but it was a lost cause. So here I am in the year 2012 and I won't have another dog. Losing them is like losing a child. I hope to be a candidate for heaven. If I am, I know I will once again unite with NELLIE, BLACKIE, SNIFFY,MACK, QUEENIE, WHISKEY, HUNDT, SNOOPY, SHADOW, AND HAPPY. There is most certainly a "Doggy Heaven;" the Lord made them as "man's best friend." They certainly were mine!

NOTE FROM TOM: "LAKESIDE GIRL" AND OTHERS WHO CAN'T READ ARTICLES SUCH AS THE ONE BELOW

TO ENLARGE OVERSIZED ARTICLES, RIGHT CLICK ON THE GRAPHIC AND CHOOSE "OPEN LINK IN A NEW WINDOW;" CLICK ON THE MAGNIFYING GLASS AND THE ARTICLE IS FULLY LEGIBLE.

(ON SOME GRAPHICS, THIS OPTION MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE.)

Well thank you for refreshing the index; that is really appreciated! However now you have sparked the longing for a bowl, a large bowl of snapper soup with a wee bit of sherry. "Shorty" Skwara ran a tavern on Brunswick and Spruce and he caught his own turtles. Friday was a special of flounder along with a bowl of snapper. For a tiny place it was standing room only and if you didn't get there early you might go hungry. One day I spied an old cedar canoe in poor condition in his yard and when I asked his intentions regarding the boat he said that my Dad would occasionally help him with his turtle trapping in that canoe. I tracked the numbers etched in the inner keel and found that it is an Old Town that was built in 1939. They have the records on each and every canoe or skiff ever built and can send you a part if you furnish that number. My restoration certainly did not do it justice but I still have it. Now, to find a place to get an honest bowl of snapper? I believe Dad said the pond at Walker Gordon Dairy was the best source of snappers in the area.

Ed Millerick

YOU ARE VERY WELCOME, ED. GLAD TO BE OF SERVICE. FOR ABOUT 12 YEARS IN THE 1940'S ONE OF OUR HARTLEY AVENUE NEIGHBORS WAS FRANK SKWARA. FRANK HAD A DAUGHTER DOLORES WHO HUNG AROUND WITH MY SISTER, AND A SON FRANK JR. WHO WAS A LICENSED PILOT. HE USE TO FLY LOW OVER THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN HIS PLANE AND "WOBBLE" HIS WINGS. I'LL BET THEY ARE RELATED. I KNOW RELATIVES WERE OVER IN THE PENNSYLVANIA-OHIO AVENUE AREA OF NORTH TRENTON.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Tom. I learn something new about my computer just about every day!
Lakeside Girl

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

2011: WELCOME TO LOCAL HISTORY, NEWCOMERS! I HOPE YOU RETURN OFTEN.

Who says history is not of interest to many people? I had been averaging anywhere from 300 to 400 hits per day. Thanks to the Trenton Times where my Saturday, August 6th edition of "Sentimental Journey" was published, the site has exploded exponentially! People DO read the "TIMES!" As can be seen in the chart, 1278 visits were made on Saturday.

Sally Logan Gilman said...

I would expect no less from you, Tom. Your are my official "historian'' for my beloved Trenton and I would not know what to do without your website. I visit it every day -- sometimes more than once -- and although I cannot relate to much of the Hamilton etc. material I read it all and enjoy it very much. Congratulations on your success.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Tom Glover said...

THANK YOU, SALLY. YOU ARE ONE OF MY ORIGINAL AND VERY LOYAL VISITORS FROM THE EARLIEST YEARS OF THIS WEBSITE. XO TOM GLOVER

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

1929: AT & T TRANS OCEANIC RADIO

I remember as a young boy, riding with a forgotten member of our family out to Lawrenceville to pay our monthly payment on our house. Mrs. Gritzner lived in Lawrenceville. I specifically recall riding by that incredible field that had high telephone poles connected by what looked like miles of wire. I was told they were "short wave" antennas for sending and receiving radio signals to and from all around the world. I was transfixed. We had a short wave radio at home. It was a 1930's model Motorola, and I spent hours chasing stations from Berlin, London, and other exotic and very far away geographical locations. It was probably this early exposure to radio at the tender age of 11 or so that got me interested in a subject I still love today: Amateur radio and "Chasing DX" on the short wave bands.

SJBill said...

My Hallicrafters S-107 with a long wire antenna was tuned in to Radio Free Europe, Radio moscow and Rah-Deee-Oh Koo-Bah before and during the missile crisis. DXing was a great pastime. I also enjoyed listening to commercial radio stations all across our country. With the latest copy of White's Radio Log I would try all the AM band kilocycle settings to get all the 50000 watt powerhouse stations. Our clocks were always dead-on because I listened to WWV and the CHU Canada time signal stations. The AT&T station in the pic above was out on Lawrenceville -Pennington Road, about midway between the two towns, wasn't it? There were also a few pole farms out up and down the coast. One was by Barnegat Bay near Manahawkin. The service was very expensive, and you had to wait to get an available line. Bandwidth was very limited.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Tom Glover said...

WHEN I WAS IN THE ARMY OVER IN GERMANY IN 1956, IT COST $12. PER MINUTE TO MAKE A TRANS-OCEANIC CALL. ONE OF MY BUNK MATES WAS AN AMATEUR OPERATOR. HE SUCCEEDED IN PUTTING THROUGH A PHONE PATCH TO DOWNINGTOWN PA. I TALKED TO MY WIFE FOR 10 OR 15 MINUTES ON 40 METERS. THE HAM IN PENNSYLVANIA PICKED UP THE TAB FOR THE CALL FROM DOWNINGTOWN TO TRENTON. THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I BECAME A HAM IN LATER YEARS. "HAMS" ARE A SPECIAL BREED....ALWAYS THERE TO HELP IN TIMES OF TROUBLE. TOM GLOVER

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Noel said...

Tom, To this day there is one pole remaining from one of the the antenna. It can be seen on Federal City Road. Noel Goeke

1956: STEINERT GRAMMAR SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

Thanks ti Cathy Csorgo Annaccarato for this and many other mementos from her years at Steinert High and Hamilton High class of 1960. Cathy, please correct me if I mis-spelled your last name. I searched my files and came up with the above spelling from a former post.

A NOTE FROM TOM

Emails such as those below are what makes all the work on building a digital local history repository here in the Local History Collection of the Hamilton Township Public Library so encouraging. It is, and has been my goal to bring together history and nostalgia relating to Hamilton and Trenton and other Mercer County areas, to young and old alike. Below are only a few of the hundreds of emails and guest book messages I have received since the establishment of this blog in mid-November, 2005. Many visitors have spread the word among family and friends all over the globe. There are many emails from retirees down in Florida who get those nearly spiritual, bittersweet nostalgia feelings as they re-visit their youth with the photos and articles of very familiar persons, places and things from the past. Sincere thanks to those visitors, now numbering 185,000+ and counting; I hope you all return often.

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Tom, I now live in an adult community at the shore and 8 out of 10 here are on line frequently. Anyone with an interest in Trenton/Hamilton is now reading (this blog) since I spread the word. My former classmates in the Trenton area are always talking about your items. When I am at my house in Fla I go on line and bring up articles for relatives and friends down there to check on. So, you see, you are well read and a source of information (for) the Golden Set in lots of places. Keep up the good work.

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I enjoyed reading about Trenton-past. Am now living in Florida, but have many fond memories of growing up in Ewing and Hamilton. Graduated Hamilton High class of '57. Would like to hear from any of my classmates.

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Love this site and your Times column--thank you for today's tribute to Hamilton Township teachers-I love every day of my 32 years at Reynolds and "East"

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Tom Glover, you are amazing! I've been engrossed by local history for years and have been looking for little scraps and nuggets in local libraries, always amazed to find something new. I'd always been focusing on historical figures who passed through and did this or that and moved on - that's where I got my 'thrill' from, so to speak. But when I found your site, I was first of all floored by the sheer amount of great material - almost an overload for me compared to what I could access normally. And second of all, I've now been really turned on to the day-to-day minutiae of our area from days past; that has become fascinating to me. So, just wanted to say: Thanks very much for this!

1918: Deutzville School Mothers

A week or so ago, I wrote a column in the "Times of Trenton" regarding Deutzville School. Here is still another document that was destined for the recycle bin. Fortunately, I was at the right place at the right time. Please people, think of me before you destroy material which you label as trash!