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   Comments April 2025   Interactions Other 1959-69 JCC Basketball Team               8Joan Stark Foster, Karl J. Flesch and 6 others Trenton Jewish Historical Society Public group   Morton Evans has left a new comment on your post " Comments Feb 2025 ": I was in Trenton staying with my Aunt Lillian and Uncle Sam Kaplow during the '55 flood. My uncle owned a luncheonette/candy store/ice cream parlor in Yardley, PA on Main and Afton. I was at the store when the Trenton-Yardley Bridge was swept away by the flooding river. We fed many people that had flooded homes by the river. Hamburgers, sandwiches, coffee and such, all at no charge. I was told the Red Cross had set up a distribution point on Afton and was charging for food. My big job was to wash out empty soda syrup gallon jugs and filling them with fresh water as the water in the store had not been flooded. We would load them in my...