A Blog about the Chambersburg area of Trenton NJ. The Burg we all loved and miss. If you were from the Burg I hope many of the pictures and lists and comments under them from good folks bring back some nice memories. Villa Park, Franklin Park, South Trenton, and nearby Hamilton also mentioned. Use the search box atop the blog to find schools,churches,streets,stores,bars etc that you remember. Over 4000 posts and 3000 pics. Enjoy:)
Won't you if you had a restaurant that was in the Burg. The Burg is not a safe place like it use to be. My husband and I use to love going to dinner in the Burg, We wouldn't do it now. I'd fear for my life.
Last time I ate here was in 1995 while on a business/personal visit to Trenton. Sat at the table in the pic with a gorgeous 'Burg-lady from my past. As we walked out past the bar and a lot of "Burg guys.......there where lots of nodding heads and smiles and "all rights" from the guys...their "stamp of approval" of my date....it's a 'Burg thing...no disrespect of the lady, just acknowledgement of her beauty...to me! (Have to have lived it to understand it - the way it used to be)!
This place is on the corner of Beatty and Whittaker? Wasn't this John and Jake Heil's Bar and Restaurant, back in the day? There were two open doors to the bowling alley section of the business.
As pinboys in the pits, we used to come into the bar area to fill up empty soda bottles with water. For the adults, Rock and Rye and or a beer was the favorite in this place. ;-)
Remember it well. I also was a pinboy there. Remember jumping up on a ledge so the ball didn't hit us. I was there one night, playing pinball with a cigarette dangling from my mouth. My mom walks in to catch me smoking. All she said was ( all right big shot )and she gave me a wallop with her handbag, the that had everything she owned in it including the frig. Damn near sent me through the wall.
Bob your story made me laugh, we use to hang out at the Brunswick Drug Store soda fountain, smoking and drinking cokes, one day my father walked in, luck was with me I just put mine out. My question is we smoked and probably smelled like a chimney but they never said anything. I finally lit my first cigarette in their house when I came home from basic training in the 60's.
Chianti's was one of Jack Rafferty's favorite spots, used to see him there a lot, and do any of you remember the barber shop across the street Pete Bonnelli I think, I also remember that place as a little store run by an old Hungarian lady Mrs Crossley (the English translation)she lived in the same place behine the store, then on the other corner was Massi's 5 & 10 which became Campi's, if you got dirty, you walked down the street to the Domestic Laundry, on Cummings Ave. My folks live in Cummings Place when I was born then we moved to Genesee Street... I can hear Barbra in the backround singing 'MEMORIES""
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Love all these pictures. Seems like all these places where something. What are they now? Have all the restaurants moved out of the Burg.
Won't you if you had a restaurant that was in the Burg. The Burg is not a safe place like it use to be. My husband and I use to love going to dinner in the Burg, We wouldn't do it now. I'd fear for my life.
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Last time I ate here was in 1995 while on a business/personal visit to Trenton. Sat at the table in the pic with a gorgeous 'Burg-lady from my past. As we walked out past the bar and a lot of "Burg guys.......there where lots of nodding heads and smiles and "all rights" from the guys...their "stamp of approval" of my date....it's a 'Burg thing...no disrespect of the lady, just acknowledgement of her beauty...to me! (Have to have lived it to understand it - the way it used to be)!
This place is on the corner of Beatty and Whittaker? Wasn't this John and Jake Heil's Bar and Restaurant, back in the day? There were two open doors to the bowling alley section of the business.
As pinboys in the pits, we used to come into the bar area to fill up empty soda bottles with water. For the adults, Rock and Rye and or a beer was the favorite in this place. ;-)
Remember it well. I also was a pinboy there. Remember jumping up on a ledge so the ball didn't hit us.
I was there one night, playing pinball with a cigarette dangling from my mouth. My mom walks in to catch me smoking. All she said was ( all right big shot )and she gave me a wallop with her handbag, the that had everything she owned in it including the frig. Damn near sent me through the wall.
Bob your story made me laugh, we use to hang out at the Brunswick Drug Store soda fountain, smoking and drinking cokes, one day my father walked in, luck was with me I just put mine out. My question is we smoked and probably smelled like a chimney but they never said anything. I finally lit my first cigarette in their house when I came home from basic training in the 60's.
Chianti's was one of Jack Rafferty's favorite spots, used to see him there a lot, and do any of you remember the barber shop across the street Pete Bonnelli I think, I also remember that place as a little store run by an old Hungarian lady Mrs Crossley (the English translation)she lived in the same place behine the store, then on the other corner was Massi's 5 & 10 which became Campi's, if you got dirty, you walked down the street to the Domestic Laundry, on Cummings Ave. My folks live in Cummings Place when I was born then we moved to Genesee Street... I can hear Barbra in the backround singing 'MEMORIES""
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