As I page through the thousands of pages on this site, I am more and more firmly satisfied that the extra time spent re-formatting, lightening , re-setting the focus, intertwining related graphics and other Photo Shop graphic modifications has ended up giving me the satisfaction that present and future generations who visit this website will be happy to download and save them in their own personal computer files. The above graphic is an example of "intertwining related graphics." There is the exquisite photo on the right of the RKO Trent (then known as "Reade's Trent"), along with the equally exquisite engraving of the U.S. hotel building as it looked during the transition to a motion picture theater and vaudeville palace. This is what local history and this website is all about.
