The Burg Area in 1965
A Diner called The Living Room was at 1458 Chambers Street.
Junior League Bargain Box Clothing was at 210 Centre Street.
J&M Bar was at 1218 South Clinton Avenue.
Pal Joey's Restaurant was at 601 Lalor Street.
Rudy Bonnani's Cedar Inn Bar was at S Olden Avenue&Cedar Ln
Stovers Pharmacy was at South Broad and Market Street
City Tire Company was at 909 South Broad Street
Mayfair Liquor Store was at 1335 South Broad Street.
McCafferty Ford was at 2515 South Broad Street.
The Car Wash on South Broad Street was called "Duffys".
Gus Heintz Bar was on 1110 Chambers Street. Gus lived at
29 Redfern Avenue which was within walking distance of
his establishment.
Live Local Music 1965
Tommy Mennela Trio, Joe D'Amico and his Band, Patty Croft
, Les Severes, The Jet-Sets, Pat Inverso Trio, Ray Nance,
The Jack Morgan Las Vegas Review, Jerry Glaze, The Roof
Toppers, Bill Stafford, Bill Sciedell, Kenny Melf, Hal
Gibbons, The Little Quartet, Leon Willis and his
Orchestra, The IV Knights, The Mel-Ar IV, The Threebeats
, Sonny Dae, Billy "Kit" Carson, Benny Snyder, Larry
Tyler, Rocky Drew, Lucky Parnelli and the Skyliners,
Paul C Trio featuring George Nardello, Jimmie Vee and
the Scamps, The Encores
4 years ago
11 comments:
City Tire was run by "two old codgers" who were grumpy as all get out. Rough outside but nice guys indeed but you had to kind of look past the cigar and snarl.
My dad had his "office" across the street. It was a large brick building. Sometimes I would take a bus downtown and go in to see him. One of the things I learned early, was not to go in Dad's desk when he isn't there.
Got my butt whooped.
Skip
HI MAC.. FOR SOME REASON I RECALL GUS HEINTZ'S PLACE MORE THAN THE OTHERS. IT MAY BE CAUSE OF BEING ON CHAMBERS ST, AND BEING THERE FOR SUCH A LONG TIME. READING ALL THOSE NAMES SURE BRING BACK MANY FOND MEMORIES. THANKS A LOT.
Hi Ralph & Skip:)
Skip, were those 2 codgers
Abe Black and Dave Solidar?
Ralph, I think Gus place's
building on 1110 Chambers Street
was gone in my Burg day.
A note about the buidling itself.
It was owned by Elizabeth McCoy.
Elizabeth lived 2 doors down at
1106 Chambers Street.
Boy that sure rings a bell, Abe Black does. One seemed to be the boss the second was shorter. It's been since the 60's. I believe the boss had a mustache and like I said the ever present cigar.
They were not used to working on them "foreign cars" and at the time I had a 1963 Chevy Corvair Spyder. What got to them was it had real wire wheels like a Triumph or MG and without a proper boot the tubes leaked. I think they called Angelo's to find out how to deal with wires. He was the MG & Triumph dealer on Prospect.
Skip
I bought an Austin American from Angelo's. One summer night when I lived in my first apartment on Miller Ave. in Hamilton it poured and the street got flooded and they took us out by boats. Angelo tried to fix the car but screwed it up so I had it repaired at Ed's Gulf Station on Broad St. made it run like a champ, great little car.
Are you referring to Angelo's Garage on 790 Chambers Street
(Owner Angelo Scozzaro)?
Angelo's home(wife Fannie) was 20 McKinley Avenue at that time.
Angelo's Foreign Cars was on Prospet Street off Olden.
It was across from the Broken Drum and the old "passion pit", The Ewing Drive In.
The Broken Drum had a great sign ..
"You Can't Beat It"
They were the only true Happy Days/American Pie type car hop establishment that I can remember where you had a pull under canopy and a speaker to tell them what you wanted. No roller skates but it was a tray hooked on the window.
Also famous for the hot rod action. If you had a street rod The Drum was the place to go for a $5 match race. That was the low end. A certain cousin of mine ran a Grandma stock looking 67 Chevy Caprice that was a sleeper. Air cleaner and valve covers and badges were all 396, but it was in reality a 427.
Skip
No listing for anything called
Angelo's but the Chambers Street
address in either Trenton City directory. Perhaps it was called
something else that I would not
recognize?
Angelo's Motors was on Prospect Street in Ewing.
There are some things I'm sure of.
The last time I saw Angelo, I just got out of the Navy and they had a sale. The Fiat 850 in coupe and convertible was cute and sporty looking. I remember looking over at Angelo and telling him I could pedal faster that this car. So, I bought a used 124 Fiat from an Autobahn Mercedes mechanic. Fast, but I could tell some stories about that Fiat. A 17,000 mile nightmare car.
Those were Trenton hang-outs: The Broken Drum, Ewing Drive In and such.
Actually Mack, The Trenton Board of Education has it's main headquarters and garages in the old Bell Tel complex in Ewing right next to Angelo's lot.
Skip
Rayfromvillapark knew him and check the August 20 Mack for some of that stuff.
Angelo and Reedmans 80 Acres in Langhorne were where every 17 year old in Trenton went to eyeball the fancy Italian and Brit iron.
Reedman would often have an Iso Rivolta or Fiat Dino, later the Dino became the Ferrari 208/308. Dino, being Enzo's son who designed the car and died suddenly.
Skip
Ahh perhaps its on Prospect Street
north of North Olden Avenue? Then Angelos would not appear in the Trenton City Directory.
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