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:)
Great picture, brought back many memories, I spent many days there. Back when I was a kid, like 4 or 5 years old the good sisters used to "baby sit" a couple of us until our moms got home from work, work?? where?? the cigar factory of course..LOL I wonder what it looks like on the inside today, I remember how beautiful the little chapel was, I wonder what they did with it when the building was sold.
Though I was raised as a Protestant, but the St. Stephen's Convent brings back many old memories for me. Sorry, I cannot recall names of the Sisters that lived here, but they were a wonderful group.
What a unusual neighborhood we had. At 230 Genesee was the Convent. Next to that was St. Stephen's School (demolished years ago), St. Stephen's Church, the Rectory, a couple of vacant lots where homes used to be, now used for parking, then Istvan Parichy's Tavern where Ernie Kovacs used to hang out.
SJBill Ernie's dad used to manage the place at one time and he also had a butcher shop on the corner of Genesee and Roebling,on the same side a the churcn, I am not referring to Paul's across the street (Pat Pone's side)
I don't recall the butcher shop on the Church side. I recall sitting on the corner steps with a girl names "Cookie" (I kissed her at age two.)
Mr. and Mrs. Kovacs were great folks. Mrs. Kovacs sometimes did her housework while wearing a slip. IIRC, a lot of Burg women used to dress that way during hot weather as we had no A/C.
We kids used to enter the bar via the back fence / back door / and across the ground floor. There weren't many bars we didn't go into. The bartenders always gave us free Cokes. In turn we did little chores like running to Kovach's to get copies of the Trenton Times for customers when they came in. Bars were just another part of the neighborhood scene.
the butcher shop I am referring to goes way back, my mom is the one who told me about it, she knew Ernie's dad, her maiden name was Kovacs, but not related..
there was also a butcher shop on the other corner, Genesee & Hudson, Steve Thomas used to run it, then it was a beauty shop I think and I beleive most recently a jewelry shop
Steve "Spike" Thomas was a long time friend of the family. He had anamazing sense of humor, as did most merchants in the Burg. He did absolute magic (sound effects) while opening beer cans. ;-)
He had his smokehouse behind the house going full blast all the time. I remember him selling packaged sliced bread that came in a white wrapper. No name. Twelve cents a loaf.
His very sweet daughter married a descendant of Alexander Hamilton from Virginia. I last saw her in the 80s while I was on business.
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Great picture, brought back many memories, I spent many days there. Back when I was a kid, like 4 or 5 years old the good sisters used to "baby sit" a couple of us until our moms got home from work, work?? where?? the cigar factory of course..LOL I wonder what it looks like on the inside today, I remember how beautiful the little chapel was, I wonder what they did with it when the building was sold.
Though I was raised as a Protestant, but the St. Stephen's Convent brings back many old memories for me. Sorry, I cannot recall names of the Sisters that lived here, but they were a wonderful group.
What a unusual neighborhood we had. At 230 Genesee was the Convent. Next to that was St. Stephen's School (demolished years ago), St. Stephen's Church, the Rectory, a couple of vacant lots where homes used to be, now used for parking, then Istvan Parichy's Tavern where Ernie Kovacs used to hang out.
SJBill Ernie's dad used to manage the place at one time and he also had a butcher shop on the corner of Genesee and Roebling,on the same side a the churcn, I am not referring to Paul's across the street (Pat Pone's side)
I don't recall the butcher shop on the Church side. I recall sitting on the corner steps with a girl names "Cookie" (I kissed her at age two.)
Mr. and Mrs. Kovacs were great folks. Mrs. Kovacs sometimes did her housework while wearing a slip. IIRC, a lot of Burg women used to dress that way during hot weather as we had no A/C.
We kids used to enter the bar via the back fence / back door / and across the ground floor. There weren't many bars we didn't go into. The bartenders always gave us free Cokes. In turn we did little chores like running to Kovach's to get copies of the Trenton Times for customers when they came in. Bars were just another part of the neighborhood scene.
the butcher shop I am referring to goes way back, my mom is the one who told me about it, she knew Ernie's dad, her maiden name was Kovacs, but not related..
there was also a butcher shop on the other corner, Genesee & Hudson, Steve Thomas used to run it, then it was a beauty shop I think and I beleive most recently a jewelry shop
Steve "Spike" Thomas was a long time friend of the family. He had anamazing sense of humor, as did most merchants in the Burg. He did absolute magic (sound effects) while opening beer cans. ;-)
He had his smokehouse behind the house going full blast all the time. I remember him selling packaged sliced bread that came in a white wrapper. No name. Twelve cents a loaf.
His very sweet daughter married a descendant of Alexander Hamilton from Virginia. I last saw her in the 80s while I was on business.
Yes, Steve's daughter Dorothea, and I were class mates at St Stephen's School, I'm going to try to find a class picture, scan it and get it to you....
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