When we were kids before we had cars we would walk
everywhere. To folks homes we knew, to deliver papers,
to go to the corner store, to school, to church, to Skelton
Library, to Gino's, to Marsh Hobbie Shop, to Acme on
Roebling Avenue or Thriftway on Liberty.
I liked electronics and would walk to Radio Shack when
it was Independence Mall or Jackson Distrubutors on
Genesee Street in Hamilton. We would walk to the river
at the old abandoned U.S. Steel plant. We would walk
under the Trenton Makes bridge when the river was low.
We would walk to Morrisville and stand on the river
bank. We always wore sneakers back in my Burg days
long ago:)
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...and for most of us, we bought them at Atlantic Mills!
or from Allen's Dept Store! Keds and PF Flyers were available there, and you got to irradiate your feet and body with the shoe fitting x-ray machine!
Atlantic Mills was still a factory building back in the day.
Atlantic Mills !!
That parking lot drive into it
with the steep incline!
The Popcorn!!
Often new sneakers were part of
new clothes and notebooks and stuff
for school so often late August
was the time for this:)
SJBILL...I do remember going to Allen's as a "youngone" with my mom to get my "orthopedic shoes" and stepping in the mysterious machine...but Atlantic Mills was humming in my early teenage years...13 to be exact and that was in 1956-57....and the sneakers where always Converse, still American made at that time...It's Converse for Comfort - read the sign.
My golly, my first job was at Atlantic Mills, receiving stock and stocking shelves... my boss was a nasty old man named Hymie Silverman... every time I turned around he was behind me yelling.."YOU NOT DONE YET.. HURRY WE DONT HAVE ALL DAY" he would tell me to start one thing then a minute late tell me to do something else, then he would yell because the first thing he told me to do was not done...I lasted a month or two.. if I stayed any longer the Times front page would have said something about a body found in a dumpster at Atlantic Mills.... LOL but it was a learning experience...
atlantic mills was THE place for south trenton residents to buy stuff. technically, atlantic mills was called "atlantic department store"... it was printed on the paper shopping bags.
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