The Cigar Factory on Grand Street which became Condominiums.
I remember passing by this often when I worked weekends one
summer cleaning up at the Coat Factory nearby. I remember
the boss Harold telling stories of old Trenton. One of the many
jobs I had back in the day.
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My aunt worked there until she retired.
I have heard Britsh World War
Two Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a customer:))
Can't mention the Cigar Factory without remembering the Doll Factory in the neighborhood.
Horseman Doll, still have 2 doll heads I found outside the building. The cigar factory had a beautiful fountain with large goldfish, we used to get over the fence in the winter and the fish would be frozen in the water. Come spring they thawed out and were fine. I always thought it was a miracle and Sister Georgine at Immaculate confirmed it.
Barb: Saint Fidel of Havana watched over those fish in the winter.
Joe Z...wish St Fidel of Havana had watched over So Trenton a little better.
I think everyone in Trenton or at least South Trenton had someone work at the cigar factory
My mom and lost all of the ladies in the 300 block of Genesee St worked at the factory, way back when, it was called HENRY CLAY AND BOCK, then it became the CUBAN TOBACCO COMPANY until it was taken over by AMERICAN TOBACCO. and yes it is true that they supplied Winston Churchill with his smokes as well as all the men on Genesee Street. Leave it to those old Hungarian women, each one worked in a different department for each step in msking cigars, some were "bunch makers" this is the inside part the filler, others were wrappers, they would wrap the filler, and finally the finishers who would wrap the cigar in the final fine tobacco.. how do I know all this, well, too late for any of them to get locked up now....but each used to "borrow" what ever they worked on and then used to get together at my house to make the cigars... I kid you not, why they even "borrowed" doll parts from Horseman dolls, to how you how industrious they were, when the cigar factory went out on strike, they got jobs at the doll factory and used to walk the picket line on thier lunch hour from the doll factory... what a great movie this would make...
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