901 Division Street, The Burg.
This is an interesting building I often passed
by long ago. Never noticed what it was used for.
This is the corner of Division Street and
South Clinton Avenue.
UPDATE: Barb and JoeZ say this was Palmer-Trout
Office Supply for a while:)
UPDATE #2 : Bill Barber and Ralph Lucarella say
it was once Urknn & Kohn Department Store:)
5 comments:
Mack, I remember it as Palmer-Trout Office Supplies. Paid many a visit to that place when I was working in retail.
Hi Mack: I remember it as Urken and Kohn, for many years the main dept store of Chambersburg. In that same area was the Bijoe Theatre, Max Introligator's, Brown's Novelty and my favorite ice cream parlor on the corner of So. Clinton and Anderson. My brother Lou also had a radio shop in 1936 across the street. That was where I met my beautiful wife, she passed away in 1998 but we have been married for 70 years, may she rest in peace and God Bless Her. Regards.
Hi Mack: I remember it as Urken and Kohn, for many years the main dept store of Chambersburg. In that same area was the Bijoe Theatre, Max Introligator's, Brown's Novelty and my favorite ice cream parlor on the corner of So. Clinton and Anderson. My brother Lou also had a radio shop in 1936 across the street. That was where I met my beautiful wife, she passed away in 1998 but we have been married for 70 years, may she rest in peace and God Bless Her. Regards.
Hi Joe & Ralph:)
I remember this now as Palmer
Trout but do not remember going
inside it for any reason.
What a cool looking building:)
The building was built for Urken and Kohn's Department Store. (Not sure, but I think Tom Glover had a post about the building a while back).
Later, Palmer Trout moved their office furniture business from their old yellow building at Whittaker and S. Clinton across from Red Men's Hall (Uncas Tribe).
The U&K building had one of the great freight and passenger elevators in Trenton. If I recall correctly, it was a metal cage where the front foors moved up and down - "teeth" style.
There was no need to pick a floor number. It had full manual control by a big brass electrical switch that went up or down. You could over or undershoot teh floor by a few, but nobody cared. Just step up or down.
The bottom two floors had the displays and I think the top floor was used for storage. The storage floor had a real pigeon problem back in the day.
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