My Dad Ed MacNicoll remembers:)
700 Greenwood (the corner of Monmouth & Grenwood) was the
Italian Consulate. Rider College was once on East State across
from the Post Office. Many of the large Victorian homes on
Greenwood Avenue were Rider Sorority Houses. Case's Box Lunch
was next to Donald Duck's Store on South Clinton near Greenwood.
Independence Mall was once Spike Rice's Golf Range.
The Trenton Giants played at Dunn Field on the Brunswick Circle
and this is now where The NJ Lottery is.
The Park Theatre was on Franklin or Washington Street.
In the 1960s buses ran every 20 minutes to half hour.
There was a great Bakery attached to the Drugstore at
Broad & Liberty (I think Lynne Barber has commented that
she worked there).
My Dad also has told me at other times he saw the Philadelphia
Athletics play and saw Ted Williams when they were playing
The Boston Red Sox:)
Thanks Dad:)
6 years ago
6 comments:
Mack,
I believe that the Park Theater was at the triangle where Anderson and Washington meet across from "Tony Go's" and just before Hamilton. I think it was later used for educational purposes in the mid-late 60's. I was always impressed when passing the house at Monmouth and Greenwood in the early 60's and would see the plaque on the side stating it was the Italian consulate. It was only when I was older that it dawned on me that there was probably an Italian consulate in nearly every mid-large city on the East Coast at that time.
If I remember correctly, the bakery at Broad and Liberty was Huber's.
Ed and Mack...the Italian Consulate on Greenwood @ Monmouth was the Simone (pronounced SimonI) family. My girlfriend Angela Simone, her father Carlo, the Consular, her mom Seignora Simone, a concert pianist, 2 sisters who were in Clint Eastwoods "spagetti westerns" and a brother Carlo, Jr. Her father didn't think that St Anthony's was good enough for her, so he pulled her out and sent her to Villa Victoria. He made sure that all the friends she made at Immaculate were left behind and wouldn't let her see us after the move to Villa.
In the early 40's and 50's one of the kids best friends was the Trenton Police, THE PAL (Police Athletic league) The told kids to Philly baseball, to the wrestling matches and the had every year at the War Memorial Building a show I thing was called "Everything Goes" where each would go on stage, sometimes dresses as old ladies, clowns and monsters. The neighborhood cop was a kids friend and we all knew it. I saw many and all of the heroes of baseball, Connie Mack, Ted Williams, Joe D and his brother Dom, Yogi, the old Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Red Socks, Yankees and others. I saw at the Arena on Stockton Street, Gorgeous George and Argentina Roc co. Yes, THE PAL was all kids friends..Hmmmmmm
The one name I remember was Bill Starks.....Great Guy
Thanks Dad:)
Thats great stuff too:)
The PAL deserves a psot of its
own which I will add:)
In addition to a psot it also
deserves a post ...
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