List of Burg Area Taverns in 1935 From Tom Glovers Blog
If you have not seen Tom Glovers Hamilton Blog its one
of my links on the blog list. It is the best local
blog of local history and was my inspiration for this
blog. Here is a list of Burg area taverns in 1935 from
it:
The Fulton Cafe, Fulton Street & Roebling Avenue
Casa Nova, 800 Chestnut Avenue
Ellen Grill, 708 South Clinton Avenue
Ed Schultz's Marine Tavern, Lalor Street & Centre Street
Frolic Club Inn, Chambers Street & Cedar Lane
Old Delaware Inn, Lamberton Street
Meckels, South Clinton Avenue
Oriental Gardens, Centre Street & Federal Street
Daniel's Tavern, 802 Beatty Street
Allegretti's Grill, Roebling Avenue & Division Street
Anton Gusz Cafe, South Clinton Avenue
Hamilton Grill, Hamilton Avenue & Franklin Street
Nicks Nook, South Broad Street & Beatty Street
Please note this is from a newspaper ad page from 1935
and where I could not read the actual street number
I just listed the street:)
3 years ago
5 comments:
HI MAC....IN 1935 I WAS 15 YEARS OLD AND IT SEEMED LIKE THERE WERE TAVERNS OR SALOONS ON EVERT CORNER IN CHAMBERSBURG. THAT SURPRISED ME CAUSE MY FATHER AND MOST OF HIS FRIENDS DID THEIR DRINKING AT HOME WITH HOME MADE WINE, ANISETTE AND OTHER DRINKS. MOST OF THE OLD TIMERS IN THE BURG PLAYED CARDS, SMOKED THEIR DiNOBILL CIGARS OR PIPES AND GOT ALONG FINE. I OFTEN WONDERED HOW ALL THOSE GIN MILLS MADE OUT.
My dad would have been in his 90's now Ralph and I remember him telling of how the taverns would set out cold cuts and rolls for the factory workers or anyone to make sandwiches.
The food was free but the beer, you paid for. Pretty true in the pottery district of North Trenton but of course it was once said that Trenton was a town with a tavern on almost every corner.
There were one or two taverns in Lawrence that closed at two and then reopened at 6 in the morning for the shift change. I guess after a long night at GM or Trenton Pottery a beer was in order?
Skip
Hi Ralph & Skip
Well with so many gin mills somebody was thirsty. Both my grandpas were corner tavern guys
(and neither owned a car). It was
part of life...home..work..tavern.
.....MOST OF THE TAVERN OWNERS, I BELIEVE, LIVED ON THE PREMISES IN THE BURG, SO THE OVERHEAD AND OTHER EXPENSES WERE KEPT AT A MINIMUM.
Mack and Skip, I remember Stanley's Tavern on the corner of Brunswick and Myrtle St. My mom and dad went there on a hot summer night for a few beers. The pottery workers mostly Polish stopped in there at 6 a.m. for a shot and beer before work and than after work for another. I remember going there when I was home on leave and beer was a quarter a glass and a shot 50 cents bar brand.
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