Also from the NPL is this shot of Broad Street at Christmas time. Visible are the First Trinity Church, the Robert Treat Hotel, the Public Service Building, the Lefcourt Building and the National Newark Building, not to mention Hahne's and National Shoe.

And unless I'm mistaken, that tall building on the right is the Griffith Building:



Photo by James Shabe

You can read an interesting story about a driving force in this company who gave quite a bit to Newark...

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/_griffith6_lena.html

Me and a friend of mine,lawrance cooney from no 9th st worked in the kitchen at the robert treat hotel back in the late 60's.that Grffith bld. was a great bld. in it's day .It had all those huge organs in the showroom on the 1st. floor

My parents bought a piano from Griffith Piano back in the early 60's. My sister Diana Quinn still has that piano.

Huge organs on Broad St? For a minute I thought we'd hear another Lincoln Motel story.
There used to be a company called "Kimball" (no relation) that made pianos and other keyboards. Many years ago, in my early 20's, I was out one night with my then-girlfriend. We'd stopped in bar on Bloomfield Ave for a drink or three, before heading out to dinner. There was some game show on the TV, and they announced, in that quiz show voice, that a contestant had won "the remarkable Kimball Organ!" My girlfriend immediately burst into laughter, as did I after the initial blush.
Those were the days, my friends.