830 South Clinton Avenue, The Burg
This was Banana Supply and Produce, owner Abe Lipsky,
according to my records:)
Abe lived on 604 Edgewood Avenue with his wife Selma.
5 years ago
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8 comments:
Love the Export 69640 phone number.
Our phone was Export 60037. Only problem is that I thought you could tell what part of Trenton a number was from by the exchange?
Owen 53808 .. think of your number and what part of town or a relative that lived somewhere else.
Export may have been city and OW out in a township?
TheSkipper
Skip: My grandmother had OW and she lived in South Trenton, we had Export and lived on Brunswick Ave.,don't know how that phone exchange worked. I guess luck of the draw.
Wow does that place look old, but that's the way it was! THe picture of Abie is great! What a treat after all these years!
All the fruits and veggies were displayed in the front room, just inside the doorway. He had a refigerator room behind that which could be entered from a side passageway.
Of course, all the fruits were brought in by truck, by train or by ship. The produce that came from the longest distances tasted that way.
Abie had a bathtub on a table in a side walkway filled with water. Soaking carrots or celery in water help freshen up the veggies just a bit.
Each Summer the good stuff was locally produced - we were the Garden State, remember?
Tomatoes and onions were from south Jersey with its sandy loamy soils.
Peaches and corn were from New Egypt.
Potatoes were from Dutch Neck.
Apples were from an orchard in Plainsboro.
Blueberries were from a farm out near Fort Dix.
Abie's bananas came all the way from South America by boat through Philly or New York.
Abie was a friend of the family for decades. He and his employee, Eddie, worked long hard hours and were a real service to the neighborhood.
Our evening meals were not possible without "Something from Abies" unless it came out of a can.
SJBill ... Ouch, eccccch ...
Thinking of your post, I just gritted my teeth on the sand from some Jersey Spinach. You could never wash the leaves of fresh spinach enough.
JoeZ .. that sounds about right for our area, we were pretty much all Exports. I think that you could take your number if you moved and that added confusion to the mix. Remember three on a party line?
The sun is always shining on Mack's Burg, I don't ever remember a rainy day.
TheSkipper
Trenton's first phone number (#1), the Scott Taylor Pharmacy right by JoeZ's house ... well ... when it was down town anyway.
Charlie Webster used to be the official historian for Trenton and came up with that one.
TheSkipper
My grandmother had a party line, I could never get on, she finally got a private line. I could then talk to the girls.
the banana supply looked like that until it closed inthe early 80s or so.
we went there often.
OMG, it's Abe, he was such a wonderful man, I would go to him with a quarter and he would give me a brown lunch bag full of green grapes!! Seeing this pic of him made me cry!
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