1937: SOUTH BROAD STREET PAVING LIVINGSTON TO MARKET STREET

Here's a great Mill Hill photo that is familiar to many old timers who recall the intersection of Market and So. Broad Street. You are looking from a vantage point on South Broad Street. Across the street is the corner building that now houses the Mill Hill Tavern, and of course on the immediate left, the bank which always had a little shack on the corner at Market Street where a gentleman sold newspapers and magazines. Lord, am I getting old! Incidentally, Saturday's (July 24) Tom Glover "Sentimental Journey" column deals with an interesting look back at the early years of legendary Mill Hill; a community which has turned from an eroding neighborhood into an incredibly historic and beautiful neighborhood.

THANKS TO MIKE MCNICOLL FOR THIS COMMENT:

I recognized the Mill Hill at once,it still looks the same outside all these years later. The papers/magazines guy was there in my years working at the Welfare Department when it was in the old Sears building a few blocks away in the early 1980s:) Gotta also put in a plug for Felix's Deli a few stores down from the Mill Hill, outstanding Hoagies:)

THANKS, MACK; INTERESTING INSIGHT.

1918 (Ca 1918) So. Broad St. Paving

Fresh on the heels of posting the preceding post on the old White Horse Turnpike, I came across this photo from an un-dated news article. On the reverse side, there are references to WWI; hence the suspicion that this is a WWI era road re-surfacing project. I have no idea just where on So. Broad these photos were taken.

1896: Agitating for a Paved So. Broad Street

In the 1800's, today's So. Broad Street was known as the White Horse Turnpike. It was operated by an organization which was very derelict in maintaining the thoroughfare. Many stories tell of farmers coming from Southern New Jersey getting their wagons mired in the mud. The problem lasted for years. At that time, it was a toll road. One known toll gate was in the area of today's South Broad and Lalor Street.

1914: THEY WANTED TO RENAME IT "BROADWAY"

A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, I WROTE A COLUMN ON THE WIDENING OF SOUTH BROAD STREET BEGINNING FROM THE INTERSECTION OF LIBERTY AND SO. BROAD STREET. THAT WIDENING IS EVIDENT TODAY. HOMEOWNERS ALL ALONG THE ROAD FROM THE CITY LINE TO WHITE HORSE GAVE UP FRONTAGE ON THEIR PROPERTY SO THAT THE THOROGHFARE COULD BE WIDENED AND ENHANCED.