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HERB GRIFFITH WAS MY SOPHOMORE BIOLOGY TEACHER. HE WAS ALSO ONE OF HAMILTON'S PREMIER SOCCER COACHES AND VERY ACTIVE IN THE PHYS ED PROGRAM. MISS BETTY REID WAS ALSO AT HHS WHEN I WAS THERE, BUT I WASN'T IN ANY OF HER CLASSES. BETTY MARRIED LATER IN LIFE, BECOMING MRS. BETTY FERETTE. "ALWAYS A LADY."
THE BUILDING IS STILL THERE, BUT THE CHURCH IS NO LONGER KNOWN AS THE BROAD STREET PARK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
THE ABOVE INTERESTING ARTICLE TELLS THE STORY OF TRENTON'S NOTED WATCH MANUFACTURING FACTORY OVER IN THE MONMOUTH-TYLER STREET AREA OF TRENTON. THE PLANT WAS BUILT ON A PORTION OF LAND OWNED BY SAMUEL K. WILSON WHO HAD MANY ACRES OF LAND BACK IN THE LATE 1800'S. THE GRAPHIC FOLLOWING THIS SHOWS AN ARTIST'S INTERPRETATION OF THE HUGE BUILDING.
OVER THERE ON TYLER STREET AREA OF TRENTON WAS THE SITE OF ONE OF TRENTON'S VERY FAMOUS WATCH MANUFACTURING FACTORIES. HERE IS IS KNOWN ONLY AS "TRENTON WATCH COMPANY," BUT IN LATER YEARS IT WAS THE HOME OF THE VERY POPULAR INGERSOLL WATCH COMPANY
THANKS TO MY BUDDY BILL OPFERMAN FOR SOME CHOICE PHOTOS FROM THE 1967 EDITION OF STEINERT'S "CRESSET 67" YEARBOOK. THIS, AND A FEW PHOTOS OF THE FACULTY FOLLOW THIS POST. THERE WILL BE MORE STEINERT POSTS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. HOW WE HAVE CHANGED! HOW FAST THE 60'S ARE ATTAINING "VINTAGE" STATUS!
HERE'S HOWARD PARRISH, A WONDERFUL GUY WHOM I HAD AS A SHOP TEACHER AT KUSER ANNEX BACK IN 1947. HOWARD WAS FRESH OUT OF THE SERVICE AND HAD ALL THE GIRLS IN KA SAYING, "HUBBA HUBBA!" (REMEMBER THAT ARCHAIC PHRASE? HE WENT ON TO BECOME A FACULTY MEMBER OF THE NEW HAMILTON HIGH EAST.
IN 1895, THE TRENTON TIMES RAN FREQUENT SKETCHES OF PROMINENT TRENTON AREA PERSONS. THIS ONE IS FROM THE "NOTABLE PERSONS" FOLDER. REV. DIXON WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MERCER HOSPITAL (CAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM).
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO RECORD OF WHO BOUGHT THIS HOME AND HOW MUCH THEY PAID FOR IT BACK IN 1934. I WOULD GUESS IT WOULD FALL SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 20 AND 30,000 DOLLARS DURING THAT DEPRESSION ERA.
IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO FIND ANNIVERSARY NOTIFICATIONS AND BRING THEM INTO THE PRESENT. ANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE TO ANYONE INVOLVED IN HISTORIC RESEARCH.
THIS REPORTER DESCRIBES THE TRAGIC AFTERMATH OF THE
THIS WAS THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA IN THE DRUDGERY OF MONDAY WASH DAYS. AT THE ASTRONOMICAL PRICE OF $179, THE GLOVER FAMILY AND MANY OTHERS, HAD TO MAKE DO WITH THEIR OLD WRINGER WASHERS.
THESE ARE THE GUYS WHO WALKED OFF WITH PISTOL SHARPSHOOTING HONORS BACK IN 1945. MR. COBINE WAS A PERENNIAL WINNER DURING THAT ERA.
"NEITHER SNOW, NOR SLEET, NOR RAGING FIRES..." THEY ARE ALWAYS THERE TO ASSIST OUR BRAVE FIREFIGHTERS WHENEVER THERE IS A CIVIL EMERGENCY. HERE THE ARE GETTING A BRAND SPANKING NEW TRUCK TO DELIVER THEIR SERVICES.
A CLARIFICATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE WHO POINTS OUT THAT I WAS IN ERROR WHEN I REFERRED TO ADMIRAL JOHN S. MCCAIN IN THE ARTICLE ABOVE AS THE FATHER OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN MCCAIN. HE WAS MCCAIN'S GRANDFATHER.
THE FIRST AMENMENT PROTECTED THE NAZI SYMPATHIZERS IN THE GERMAN BUND HERE IN AMERICA DURING THE PRE WWII YEARS. EVENTUALLY, FRITZ WAS DEPORTED TO HIS HOMELAND.
THE WAR HAD JUST ENDED. HAMILTON TOWNSHIP WAS TO GET A NEW 1 MILLION DOLLAR BAYER ASPIRIN FACTORY. THAT BAYER PLANT WAS WITH US RIGHT UP TO THE 1970'S WHEN THEY "PULLED UP STAKES" AND ABANDONED US. WITHIN THE PAST 4 OR 5 MONTHS, A VIEWER WAS ASKING FOR ANYTHING I MIGHT HAVE ON BAYER. I JUST UNCOVERED THIS TODAY. FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T AWARE OF IT, THE BAYER PLANT WAS ON EAST STATE STREET IN HAMILTON TOWNSHIP.
Many people have told me that they save my "Sentimental Journey" columns and send them to friends and relatives out of the local area. My column is in the "People" section of the Times EVERY OTHER SATURDAY. Tell your out of town friends and relatives who have computer/internet capabilities that they can find my column published online on those weeks when it appears in the paper. The internet site http://www.njo.com is the site where the Times and the Star Ledger post archives, but it is somewhat difficult to get to the 14 day archives. I find it easier and much quicker to go to Google, and in the "Search For" block, enter this string: TOM GLOVER HAMILTON TRENTON you will find my column if it is a week when my column is published, along with other activities in which I have been involved over the recent past.
MISS ALLINSON IS THE SISTER OF JOSIAH ALLINSON FROM THE ALLINSON FARM. TODAY'S LOCUST HILL DEVELOPMENT WAS THE SITE OF THE ALLINSON FARM, STEEPED IN HISTORIC TRADITION. MR. BOB SIMPKINS, OUR TREASURED HAMILTON HISTORIAN LIVED ACROSS THE ROAD ON THE SIMPKINS BROTHERS DAIRY FARM. BOB TELLS OF THE DAY MRS. ALLINSON TOOK HIM TO THE UPPER ROOM IN THE ALLINSON HOME AND SHOWED HIM WHERE THE FUGITIVES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STAYED ON THEIR JOURNEY NORTHWARD.
HOW I LOVE THESE OLD REAL ESTATE ADS WHICH PINPOINT THE GENESIS OF OUR AREA NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS ONE COVERS THE AREA ALONG LALOR STREET, HOME AND RANDALL AVENUES.
THIS SCAN AND THE FEW THAT FOLLOW GIVE A THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF THE LATE GREAT, GETHSEMENE BAPTIST CHURCH.
THIS VENERABLE OLD BAPTIST CHURCH WAS A VITAL PART OF THE WILBUR-BROMLEY AREA FOR NEARLY 80 YEARS.
UNTIL SOMEONE COMES ALONG AND CORRECTS ME, I AM GOING TO ASSUME THAT THE NEW DEVELOPMENT DESCRIBED ABOVE WOULD BE TODAY'S COLUMBUS AVENUE, AND THE STREETS EASTWARD TO REVERE.
CAPITAL CITY REPLACED WHITE CITY WHEN THAT GREAT AMUSEMENT PARK SHUT DOWN. SORRY TO SAY I COULDN'T BRING ANY MORE DETAIL TO THE GRAPHIC. AS I INDUCATED EARLIER, OFFSET PRINTING WAS NOT TOO EFFECTIVE IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.
THIS IS NOT TOO FAR FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD. BACK IN 1909, MR. TEUNON HAD GREAT HOPES FOR THE BROMLEY AREA. THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD HAS SORT OF DETERIORATED OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, BUT THE OLD LINE NEIGHBORS STILL FIND THE AREA A COMFORTABLE PLACE TO LIVE.UNFORTUNATELY, THE PHOTO GIVES NO INDICATION OF WHERE IN BROMLEY PLACE THIS BUCOLIC SCENE IS LOCATED.
I'M CONFUSED BY THE REFERENCE TO THE "MILL POND" IN THE ABOVE ARTICLE. IS THERE ANY EWING TOWNSHIP VIEWER WHO CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION OF THE POND?
HOW SAD THAT FOLKS FROM THE EARLY YEARS OF TRENTON'S EMERGENCE AS A POTTERY TOWN DIDN'T IDENTIFY AND DATE THEIR BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS. I HAVE NO IDEA WHOSE POTTERY THIS MIGHT BE. PERHAPS THERE IS A POTTERY HISTORIAN WHO MIGHT RECOGNIZE THE PLANT.
TRENTON AND STEUBENVILLE OHIO BECAME VERY FAMOUS POTTERY TOWNS IN THE 19 TH AND 20TH CENTURIES.
MY FATHER AND MY AUNTS AND UNCLES CAME FROM THE STAFFORDSHIRE AREA OF GREAT BRITAIN BACK IN THE EARLY PART OF THE LAST CENTURY TO WORKD THE MANY POTTERIES THAT WERE BEGINNING TO BLOSSOM ALONG THE CANAL IN TRENTON. THEIR HOME TOWN OF STOKE ON TRENT WAS A MAJOR POTTERY CENTER.
THE POST FOLLOWING THIS GROVEVILLE ITEM POINTS OUT THE INTENSE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE DAILY STATE GAZETTE AND THE DAILY TRUE AMERICAN,. EACH PAPER HERALDED THE NEWS FROM THEIR SPECIFIC POLITICAL POINTS OF VIEW, EACH GIVING PREFERENTIAL NEWS SPACE TO THEIR RESPECTIVE POLITICAL PARTY.
THE DAILY STATE GAZETTE WAS A VERY PARTISAN REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER. ON THE OTHER HAND, THEIR ARCH COMPETITOR THE DAILY TRUE AMERICAN WAS EQUALLY IN THEIR ZEAL FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THE BICKERING BETWEEN THEM MADE FOR INCREDIBLY INTERESTING JOURNALISM.
I HAVE NUMEROUS ARTICLES DEALING WITH THE OLD MARKETS WHICH ONCE DOTTED THE LANDSCAPE OF DOWNTOWN TRENTON. NORTH BROAD STREET, STOCKTON STREET, WARREN STREET, MARKET STREET.....ALL HAVE FASCINATING STORIES TO TELL. FARMERS WOULD COME FROM NEAR AND FAR IN THEIR FARM WAGONS, BRINGING THEIR VEGETABLES, LIVESTOCK, CHICKENS, GEESE, DUCKS, AND COUNTLESS OTHER FARM COMMODITIES TO THE CITY MARKET. IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL TO SEE A STEER BEING DRIVEN TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE, CUT UP AND BROUGHT TO ONE OF THE MANY MARKETS IN TRENTON.
FEW INDEED ARE THOSE OF MY GENERATION WHO DIDN'T UNFOLD THOSE OH, SO OFFICIAL MODEL AIRPLANE PLANS, PIN THEM TO A SOFT "HOMASOTE" BOARD AND PROCEED TO LAY THOSE "STRINGERS ALONG THE FUSELAGE, WINGS, RUDDER AND STABILIZER. FEWER STILL ARE THOSE WHO DIDN'T SPEND HOURS BUILDING THESE WORKS OF ART, AND TAKING THEM TO SOME HIGH POINT, SETTING THEM ON FIRE, AND EXPERIENCING A SCALE MODEL AIRPLANE CRASH! YOU'RE A CARD CARRYING "STICK MODEL" BUILDER IF YOU REMEMBER "COMET," "TESTOR'S," AND "GUILLOWS!"
THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE 1963 HAMILTON "RETROSPECT" YEARBOOK. THESE LOVELY LADIES MADE EQUALLY LOVELY MUSIC.
THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE 1963 HAMILTON "RETROSPECT" YEARBOOK. THESE LOVELY LADIES MADE EQUALLY LOVELY MUSIC.
THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE 1963 HAMILTON "RETROSPECT" YEARBOOK. THESE LOVELY LADIES MADE EQUALLY LOVELY MUSIC.
THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE 1963 HAMILTON "RETROSPECT" YEARBOOK. THESE LOVELY LADIES MADE EQUALLY LOVELY MUSIC.
THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE 1963 HAMILTON "RETROSPECT" YEARBOOK. THESE LOVELY LADIES MADE EQUALLY LOVELY MUSIC.
THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE 1963 HAMILTON "RETROSPECT" YEARBOOK. THESE LOVELY LADIES MADE EQUALLY LOVELY MUSIC.
THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE 1963 HAMILTON "RETROSPECT" YEARBOOK. THESE LOVELY LADIES MADE EQUALLY LOVELY MUSIC.
I HAVE DIGITIZED AN INCREDIBLY CLEAR PHOTO OF THE FIREMEN PARKED ALONG GREENWOOD AVENUE ON THE DAY OF THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW BUILDING. THE ORIGINAL WAS A VERY LONG PANORAMIC PHOTO ABOUT 30+ INCHES IN WIDTH. THIS IS ONE OF THE PHOTOS. THE HARTER NURSERY BUILDINGS ARE SEEN IN THE BACKGROUND ON THE LEFT., ALSO THE FENCED IN AREA WHERE TODAY THERE IS A
OUT OF THE40,000 HIT ON THIS SITE, I WOULD ASSUME THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 5 HITS THAT WERE DUE TO AN OLD TIMER (LIKE ME) IN THE OVER 70 GENERATION WHO IS INTO COMPUTING. THIS IS THEIR QUIZ. I LOVE THE MUSIC OF WORLD WAR II. PROBABLY BECAUSE I GREW UP WITH IT. EVEN THOUGH THE GENERATION IN WHICH I CAME OF AGE WAS THE 1950'S. HOW I LOVED TO LISTEN TO WBUD AND THE "BIG TOP TEN" AT MID DAY, AND MY FAVORITE DISK JOCKEY, JACK PINTO ON THE MORNING DRIVE. BUT ALAS, TIMES HAVE CHANGED THE "OLDIES" STATIONS THAT ONCE PLAYED THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC OF PERRY COMO, ANDY WILLIAMS, PATTI PAGE, DEAN MARTIN, DON CORNELL AND MANY OTHER WONDERFUL VOCALISTS, DON'T FIT INTO THE TARGETED YOUNGER SEGMENT OF LISTENERS WHICH IS SO COVETED BY COMMERCIAL BROADCASTERS. IT MAKES ONE WONDER WHY THE AIRWAVES CAN'T BE SHARED WITH ALL LISTENERS. WBUD'S 60'S MUSIC IS VERY LISTENABLE, BUT I SURE WOULD LIKE TO SEE JACK PINTO BRING BACK THE MUSIC OF HIS GENERATION. JACK'S SUNDAY MORNING'S "BREAKFAST WITH FRANK" IS WONDERFUL; I NEVER MISS IT...BUT I'D ALSO LIKE TO HAVE BREAKFAST WITH PERRY COMO, ANDY WILLIAMS, AND ALL OF OUR GREAT VOCAL TALENTS FROM THE 50'S. TO THEIR CREDIT, WBCB-AM (1490) IN LEVITTOWN SETS ASIDE PROGRAMMING SEGMENTS FOR ALL GENRES FROM POLISH, IRISH, COUNTRY, AND "OUR" MUSIC. I SELDOM MISS LISTENING TO GERALDINE MCSORLEY'S "IRISH AIRES" ON SATURDAY MORNINGS. BY THE WAY: I AM STILL BRINGING THOSE GREAT OLD SONGS BACK WITH MY COMPUTER ORCHESTRA PLAYING "THE MUSIC WE GREW UP WITH" AT KUSER FARM.
