Circa 1929 Enterprise Volunteer Fire Co.

Edith Rommel and Edith Marlin for this vintage photo of Bromley's Enterprise Volunteer Fire Company. Any further information on the actual location of the structure shown in the photo would be appreciated.

1909: In the Beginning: Hamilton Volunteer Fire Co.

In the year 2009, Hamilton Township's venerable old Hamilton Volunteer Fire Company will celebrate 100 years of selfless service to the citizens of Bromley and the surrounding areas of Hamilton Township.

1983: Colonial Volunteer Fire Company

Here's a reprint of an old article I wrote back in 1983 on the fire company of my youth. Colonial was located on Liberty Street and Newkirk Avenue before moving to their sumptuous quarters on Kuser Road.

1943: "Let's buy a bomber!"

The girls at Cathedral High School in Trenton succeeded in raising enough money to buy four Jeeps for the U.S. war effort during World War II. Afer that incredible success, they wondered if they could be as successful in raising funds for the purchase of a bomber aircraft!

(See the next post for details on the four Jeeps the gals purchased)

1943: Those Cathedral Girls!

The senior class at Hamilton High School raised enough funds to purchase a Jeep for the U.S. Government's war effort back in 1943. Those girls at Cathedral High eclipsed that incredibe feat by purchasing four Jeeps for our soldiers.
Absolutely fascinating!

1896: The Rothschild Factory

Hamiltonians who are familiar with that huge red brick building on the corner of Nottingham Way and Johnston Avenue will remember the building as being the home of Atlantic Products Corp., manufacturers of golf and luggage bags. The building was originally constructed as a textile mill for the Rothschild Company. The building has fallen into disrepair and is an eyesore today. However, I understand that in the near future there is a possibility that the building will be restored to its original splendor and become still another 19th century treasure.

1900: DeLaval Comes to Trenton

I believe the new De Laval factory was built on farmland owned by the Boyd family. It was big news back there in 1900 when the industrial giant moved into the city.....or did they move into Hamilton township? I don't know where the city line begins, but it is a close call.

1986: How Technology Has Changed!

The headline says it all"
"VIDEO BUSINESS BOOMING"
How well I remember going to the video rental store and spending quite a long time deciding which VHS tape I would rent. In the intervening years since 1986, there has been a tremendous change in the way we view movies. Do you remember "Sir Video?"

1901: A Horseless Carriage Passes Through Trenton

It made headlines back in the infancy of the horseless carriage when Mr. and Mrs. Decker set off on a journey down the east coast. Mrs. Decker was the driver. The couple left New York City at 10 O'clock in the morning and arrived in Trenton a little after 1 P.M. The vehicle appears to be a curved dash Oldsmobile.

Ca. 1915 Groveville Methodist Church

Thanks again to Groveville's Gary Lippincott for this beautiful engraving of the Groveville Methodist church. Gary added this interesting comment:

THIS IS THE GROVEVILLE METHODIST CHURCH WITH THE ORIGINAL STEEPLE AND BEFORE CHURCH STREET WAS LOWERED TO DECREASE THE GRADE OF THE STREET.

Thanks, Gary, I didn't know the street was lowered, and I would bet that many other viewers didn't know it, either.

Yardville and Groveville

I found this article to be a completely charming view of the two twin towns of Groveville and Yardville as told by a visitor some 108 years ago. This article was written during the time of the one room country school.

Yardville Hotel

Here's an interesting view of the old and very historic Yardville Hotel, still standing after all these years. the text below is extracted from a column I wrote many years ago, giving just the essence of life as it was in that quaint area of Hamilton Township.

2006: At the Annual Hamilton "Fall Harvest Festival"

Here are my friends from Hamilton's Cultural Heritage Commission. They are sponsoring a ghost story telling night at Kuser Mansion. Details can be found at www.hamiltonnj.com.

1914: Princeton Has a New Chemical Engine!

An excellent example of early 20th century fire fighting is pictued in this 1914 photo of Princeton's newest fire fighting acquisition. Another post in the archives section of my website is a group photo of the fire "laddies*" of Princeton's Mercer Fire Co.

*The contemporary 19th and early 20th century press often referred to firemen as "laddies."

1897: Central Baptist Church

Central Baptist was smack dab in the center of the city of Trenton for years and years before moving to the present location on Pennington Road in Ewing. Reverend Wishart was also one of the more prominent Baptist ministers during that era.

1897: Trenton Fire and Police Report

From the "FIRE RELATED" and "POLICE-TRENTON" folders in the Hamilton Local History Collection, an interesting article on the state of the Trenton Fire Department and the Police Department as it was in mid June, 1897.

1951: Mr. and Mrs.Robert Beckett

Here's a photo from our 55th reunion at the Mercer County Park's Boathouse which was held in late September, 2006. Bob Beckett and his lovely wife Pat Stoy Beckett were on hand and it was great to relive the good old days.
NOTE TO MY CLASSMATES: I regret to say that nearly every photo I took at our reunion came out blurry and I was completely shocked to see that I had set the camera dial incorrectly! Let me explain: The room was quite dark. The dial selector on my digital camera is the size of a dime. The print on that dial is just a bit larger than a mustard seed. Bottom line: WRONG CAMERA SETTING! So sorry. If any of my classmates who took photos of our reunion are viewing this, would you be willing to share them? Please send 'em to thomglo@verizon.net.

1951: Mr. and Mrs.Robert Beckett

Here's a photo from our 55th reunion at the Mercer County Park's Boathouse which was held in late September, 2006. Bob Beckett and his lovely wife Pat Stoy Beckett were on hand and it was great to relive the good old days.
NOTE TO MY CLASSMATES: I regret to say that nearly every photo I took at our reunion came out blurry and I was completely shocked to see that I had set the camera dial incorrectly! Let me explain: The room was quite dark. The dial selector on my digital camera is the size of a dime. The print on that dial is just a bit larger than a mustard seed. Bottom line: WRONG CAMERA SETTING! So sorry. If any of my classmates who took photos of our reunion are viewing this, would you be willing to share them? Please send 'em to thomglo@verizon.net.

1951: Mr. and Mrs.Robert Beckett

Here's a photo from our 55th reunion at the Mercer County Park's Boathouse which was held in late September, 2006. Bob Beckett and his lovely wife Pat Stoy Beckett were on hand and it was great to relive the good old days.
NOTE TO MY CLASSMATES: I regret to say that nearly every photo I took at our reunion came out blurry and I was completely shocked to see that I had set the camera dial incorrectly! Let me explain: The room was quite dark. The dial selector on my digital camera is the size of a dime. The print on that dial is just a bit larger than a mustard seed. Bottom line: WRONG CAMERA SETTING! So sorry. If any of my classmates who took photos of our reunion are viewing this, would you be willing to share them? Please send 'em to thomglo@verizon.net.

1951: Mr. and Mrs.Robert Beckett

Here's a photo from our 55th reunion at the Mercer County Park's Boathouse which was held in late September, 2006. Bob Beckett and his lovely wife Pat Stoy Beckett were on hand and it was great to relive the good old days.
NOTE TO MY CLASSMATES: I regret to say that nearly every photo I took at our reunion came out blurry and I was completely shocked to see that I had set the camera dial incorrectly! Let me explain: The room was quite dark. The dial selector on my digital camera is the size of a dime. The print on that dial is just a bit larger than a mustard seed. Bottom line: WRONG CAMERA SETTING! So sorry. If any of my classmates who took photos of our reunion are viewing this, would you be willing to share them? Please send 'em to thomglo@verizon.net.

1951: Mr. and Mrs.Robert Beckett

Here's a photo from our 55th reunion at the Mercer County Park's Boathouse which was held in late September, 2006. Bob Beckett and his lovely wife Pat Stoy Beckett were on hand and it was great to relive the good old days.
NOTE TO MY CLASSMATES: I regret to say that nearly every photo I took at our reunion came out blurry and I was completely shocked to see that I had set the camera dial incorrectly! Let me explain: The room was quite dark. The dial selector on my digital camera is the size of a dime. The print on that dial is just a bit larger than a mustard seed. Bottom line: WRONG CAMERA SETTING! So sorry. If any of my classmates who took photos of our reunion are viewing this, would you be willing to share them? Please send 'em to thomglo@verizon.net.

1951: Mr. and Mrs.Robert Beckett

Here's a photo from our 55th reunion at the Mercer County Park's Boathouse which was held in late September, 2006. Bob Beckett and his lovely wife Pat Stoy Beckett were on hand and it was great to relive the good old days.
NOTE TO MY CLASSMATES: I regret to say that nearly every photo I took at our reunion came out blurry and I was completely shocked to see that I had set the camera dial incorrectly! Let me explain: The room was quite dark. The dial selector on my digital camera is the size of a dime. The print on that dial is just a bit larger than a mustard seed. Bottom line: WRONG CAMERA SETTING! So sorry. If any of my classmates who took photos of our reunion are viewing this, would you be willing to share them? Please send 'em to thomglo@verizon.net.

1951: Mr. and Mrs.Robert Beckett

Here's a photo from our 55th reunion at the Mercer County Park's Boathouse which was held in late September, 2006. Bob Beckett and his lovely wife Pat Stoy Beckett were on hand and it was great to relive the good old days.
NOTE TO MY CLASSMATES: I regret to say that nearly every photo I took at our reunion came out blurry and I was completely shocked to see that I had set the camera dial incorrectly! Let me explain: The room was quite dark. The dial selector on my digital camera is the size of a dime. The print on that dial is just a bit larger than a mustard seed. Bottom line: WRONG CAMERA SETTING! So sorry. If any of my classmates who took photos of our reunion are viewing this, would you be willing to share them? Please send 'em to thomglo@verizon.net.

1937; Pennington Central High School Archers

These winsome lasses from Pennington High s, hool are aiming right at the Times' photog. Archery was a popular high school sport back in the 30's, 40's and 50's.

1939: Cooper Street School

Years ago, long before the advent of all those glass encrusted high rise office buildings in the Market, Cooper and Lamberton Street area, there was a viable community of Jewish residents living happily in that neighborhood. Union Street, no longer in the neighborhood, along with Cooper and Market streets, were alive with consumer markets back in the mid 20th century.

1936 Trenton High School Dedication

This article details the dedication ceremony surrounding the Trenton High Athletic field. Trenton High is located on the land once owned by Abner Chambers. The field was a WPA project during the great depression.

1936: Junior 3 School - Trenton

Here's a photo of the school safety patrol. I assume the Trenton schools had an affiliation with the Keystone Automobile Club.

1937: Ternstedt Division of General Motors

One of the very sad events to hit the Trenton area was the demise of

the Tenstedt Divison of General Motors Corp. During World War II, the Ewing plant shown in the photo, along with another Eastern Aircraft plant in Linden, New Jersey, turned out the Grumman "Avenger;" Many historians consider the airplane to be one of the major factors in our victory in the Pacific during World War II.

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1914: City of Trenton Playgrounds

There is a limit to the size of a photo which will fit within the limits of a computer scanner. This photo was taken with my digital camera, set at the "macro" (closeup) setting. Not only is it a faster process, the graphic loses little of its legibility.

1914: Riverside Avenue Real Estate

When I saw this real estate ad from the Atterbury Tract Realty company, I wondered if the 1914 buyers of those beautiful homes knew of the floods which would plague the area so many times in the future.

1914: Free Home Sites in Pennington!

N Even as there were "homesteaders" in Oklahoma, so too was there a rush to grab the free building lots on the Howe tract in Pennington.

1927: Trenton's WOAX Radio Station

Trenton's first broadcast radio station was the source of mixed emotions. Many letter writers to the local newspapers chastised the station for their very boring programming. On the other hand there were numerous defenders of the radio station, and loyally tuned in every night to hear their favorite programs.

1931: "AIR YACHTS" at Ewing's Mercer Airport

What a dinosaur! The amphibian airplane which "docked" at Mercer Airport made headlines in the local press. What an incredible picture of a very austere Mercer County Airport!

1944? WTTM

Remember Tom and Billie Durand? Remember that great radio station that once called Trenton, New Jersey its home town? Well, it's left the city and moved to another town, and taken it's easy listening programming with it. Here's a photo from the library's "RADIO" photo showing the first anniversary party, believed ot be held in the Hotel Stacy Trent or the Hildebrecht.

1938: It's an old, old story

For generations, there have been conflicts in the middle east involving the Jews and Arabs. Even back in 1938, bomb throwers proliferated. This article could easily have been dated July 7, 2006.

1928: The Beautiful Har Sanai Temple

One of my favorite subjects in local history is the newspaper stories of our forefathers who came to this country to better themselves. My Italian-American folder is brimming with fascinating slices of life as experienced by the Italians as they came to America to start a new life. Likewise, I have been accumulating numerous material on the Jewish folks who came and settled in the Trenton area, especially the little community which was once a very important part of the city. Union St. Cooper Street, Market Street and the surrounding area south of Broad Street was a thriving community for many years before urban renewal occurred in Trenton in the middle of the 20th century. The fascinating photo and article on the laying of the cornerstone for the beautiful Har Sanai Temple in Trenton is a worthy acquisition. Unforunately, the size of the photo and the accompanying article combine to make it difficult to read. It is however, on file at the library in a size which can be zoomed in for legibility purposes.

1928: Raser & Kale Radio Dealers

As an amateur radio operator, I am very interested in the early years of broadcast and amateur radio. Mr. Ed Raser was a pioneer amateur radio operator, with many accomplishments during his career. This ad, from the Daily State Gazette has been included in the "RADIO" folder at the Hamilton Library.

1951: "So goes our day!"

Here's a scan from a page in our 1951 yearbook; back in the years when boys looked and dressed like boys, and girls had that famous "Hamilton High Mistique!"

1951: "So goes our day!"

Here's a scan from a page in our 1951 yearbook; back in the years when boys looked and dressed like boys, and girls had that famous "Hamilton High Mistique!"

1951: "So goes our day!"

Here's a scan from a page in our 1951 yearbook; back in the years when boys looked and dressed like boys, and girls had that famous "Hamilton High Mistique!"

1951: "So goes our day!"

Here's a scan from a page in our 1951 yearbook; back in the years when boys looked and dressed like boys, and girls had that famous "Hamilton High Mistique!"

1951: "So goes our day!"

Here's a scan from a page in our 1951 yearbook; back in the years when boys looked and dressed like boys, and girls had that famous "Hamilton High Mistique!"

1951: "So goes our day!"

Here's a scan from a page in our 1951 yearbook; back in the years when boys looked and dressed like boys, and girls had that famous "Hamilton High Mistique!"

1951: "So goes our day!"

Here's a scan from a page in our 1951 yearbook; back in the years when boys looked and dressed like boys, and girls had that famous "Hamilton High Mistique!"

1952: Missing Hornets

With 2007 being a reunion year for my next door neighbors in the class of 1952, I thought I would post this notice of "lost" alumni from that great class. Thanks to Marty Bisbee Bogdan for the graphic which she gave me following the last reunion of the class. Come out, come out wherever you are!

The last I heard from her Shirley Sneath Benton was living in Arizona. I was also told that Bill Elliot passed away.

1952: Missing Hornets

With 2007 being a reunion year for my next door neighbors in the class of 1952, I thought I would post this notice of "lost" alumni from that great class. Thanks to Marty Bisbee Bogdan for the graphic which she gave me following the last reunion of the class. Come out, come out wherever you are!

The last I heard from her Shirley Sneath Benton was living in Arizona. I was also told that Bill Elliot passed away.

1952: Missing Hornets

With 2007 being a reunion year for my next door neighbors in the class of 1952, I thought I would post this notice of "lost" alumni from that great class. Thanks to Marty Bisbee Bogdan for the graphic which she gave me following the last reunion of the class. Come out, come out wherever you are!

The last I heard from her Shirley Sneath Benton was living in Arizona. I was also told that Bill Elliot passed away.

1952: Missing Hornets

With 2007 being a reunion year for my next door neighbors in the class of 1952, I thought I would post this notice of "lost" alumni from that great class. Thanks to Marty Bisbee Bogdan for the graphic which she gave me following the last reunion of the class. Come out, come out wherever you are!

The last I heard from her Shirley Sneath Benton was living in Arizona. I was also told that Bill Elliot passed away.

1952: Missing Hornets

With 2007 being a reunion year for my next door neighbors in the class of 1952, I thought I would post this notice of "lost" alumni from that great class. Thanks to Marty Bisbee Bogdan for the graphic which she gave me following the last reunion of the class. Come out, come out wherever you are!

The last I heard from her Shirley Sneath Benton was living in Arizona. I was also told that Bill Elliot passed away.