The Trenton Train Station , South Clinton Avenue
This was how the Train Station looked to many or
most of our Burg ancestors as they came from
Ellis Island off of ships from the old country.
It still looked like this in the 1960s when I
was a kid. They built a new train station in
the early 1970s and that was here for like 30
something years and now they have replaced that
one with a newer one built recently.
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For many years, my father would drive to the train station at 10:45 PM to pick up a copy of the Night Owl NY Daily News, just in via the train. He would drive up to the front door of the station where the cabs picked up passengers. A little guy that my father called "Mousey" would run up to the window and give my father the paper. It was a trimmed down edition, no ads, just the breaking news. Hot off the press. The train station was the "internet " of the 50's and 60's.
Noel, our fathers were cut from the same bolt, "newshounds" for lack of a better term. God help you if the paper boy was late and he sent you to Ianni's for the "Late Final" of the Times. Heck, back in those days it was The Trenton Evening Times and the Trentonian was the morning paper.
He said "New Yorks Picture Newspaper", the Daily News (our other paper), was for all of the folks right "off the boat" who wanted news but could only speak marginal English. The photos put it all in context.
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Skip,
I do remember lots of pictures. My sister reminded me that every morning the Daily News was left on the kitchen table, opened to the last page my father had read.
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