Wednesday, March 10, 2010

1930: Demise of White City Hotel

Trenton Times Sunday Advertiser, September 28, 1930
The following is an excerpt from John J. Cleary's Trenton in the Bygone Days column:



Hamilton Township Public Library Local History Collection
Mr. Cleary has given information as to what happened to the hotel.  The  advertisement below, published in the Trenton Evening Times, August 16, 1930, attests to the demolition of the hotel
 
 A gasoline station occupied the the site for many years following the destruction of the hotel.  Today the site is a municipal parking lot for shoppers.  Not mentioned in Mr. Cleary's column is Benjamin Wagman who also was a proprietor of the hotel for a period of time, 

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