South Broad Street 1939, The Burg
You can see La Roma Tomato Pies in this picture. You can also
see Frey's Florist where later on Steeles Florist was to be:)
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4 comments:
La Roma or Sam's depends what you want to call it. Remembering those Friday Night pies with the Beatty St. Boys.
Joe, we must have known you, back in the day. Our family was always there as well. My Dad was the neighborhood roofer.
Sam used newspapers to wrap teh pies before cardboard boxes same out - Trentonians were for the small pies (only 80 cents each) and Trenton Times for the large pies (were they $1.75?)
You have to remember the cloud of smoke from Sam's Parodi cigars. In addition to the coke fired oven, this place had a smell of its own with the screen door out front and only a couple of ventilation fans.
Sam's place never changed over to a gas oven. He had this old open hearth (I think) Blodgett oven that had to be from the early 1900s that was roaring hot. The pie tasted so much different from all the others that used gas fired ovens. Sammy served three generations of my family.
This pic itself has so much going on. I only wish it were scanned at higher resolution.
The florist was Frey's, before Steele took over the business.
On the right, is the Trenton Trust Bank. Just past the bank is Johnson Radio, which occupied the property that became the bank parking lot.
Do you see the fire engine in Engine 2's driveway blocking the sidewalk? One fireman is standing on the running board talkingg with the driver.
Down the street is the old Colonial Hardware (Tal Brody's parents place), Fekete's Bar and Levy's Hardware. Then comes Allan's Department Store.
In the middle of the street behind the dark billboard is the old Wilson & Stokes lumber yard.
Broad Street was a classy street - it had no telephone poles for the electrical or phone wires. I think the wires went down the alleys behind the buildings, and the alleys were lighted for your walking comfort.
SJBill: I spent weekends at my grandmother's house, she lived on Home Ave., I remember most of those stores, Steele's Florist, Broadway Records, Lee Frizzel's Men's Shop, a great street like you said.
SJBill, when I was a little girl maybe 1949-50, I remember when they they tore up Broad to remove the trolly tracks and put the electric lines underground. My mom and I used to walk to Sam LaRoma's on Tuesday nights when my dad worked late. No pie ever tasted like that coal fired pie. I remember Sam running across the street to Feketes for a quick shot and beer in between pies and I also remember the excitement when there was a fire and the fire engines would come out of the firehouse, clanging and flashing. Now that I live in the great bastion of non-culture, North Hanover, I miss the sounds of the city the most: church bells, train whistles and that bizarre fire alarm WaaAh-WaaAh that came from the big buildings when they were on fire. Crazy the things we remember.
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