Downtown Trenton at Christmas
Burg area folks before my Burg day may remember this.
This must have been a great place in its day.
I worked Downtown in the early 1980's, long after its
Glory Days. I remember Kresges, Blimpies, Dunhams,
Ginos (Which became Roy Rogers)...The "Commons" as
it was called was a bunch of Stores and Shops with
the street blocked off for traffic and used only for
walking. This idea did not work as folks like their
cars.
6 comments:
Was it outside of Kresge's that had the Salvation Army kettle and stand? In '61 or '62 I remember our THS Key Club standing in the slush and trying to look cool ringing the brass bell and asking for donations. Our feet were cool, that's for sure.
Downtown Trenton seemed like Time Square back inthose days.
Hi SJ:)
It looks so cool and I have heard so many nice things about old Downtown Trenton alas it was before my time:)
Wow. People and traffic... That not so wonderful "mall" idea did not work out so well for Trenton.
After 1968 the City tried flip-flops and hand stands. They even pressured NJ workers through the merchants associations to mandate a one hour lunch.
What worked in center city Philly was having great anchor stores that all shut by 6 at night and did not try to compete with the malls. You had all of the brand stores to hit at lunch like Banana Republic, Bass and such.
Changing traffic patterns and silly bricks were just projects that were ill conceived.
Skip
SJBill, the Salvation Army kettle was in front of Nevius-Vorhees, I know, I rang the bell for the Trenton Elks for years. When the city started downhill, we were moved to K-Mart in the Lawrence shopping center. This was after the riots, when they built the "new" shopping center for all the stores that moved out of Trenton. I also worked the Elks Club food booth at the State Fair on Nottingham Way after school. Couldn't beat it, free admission, all the food you could eat, plenty of guys to meet and time to see everything the Fair had to offer.
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