From: "Bruce Cardner" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [NJUNION] Plainfield NJ MCMAHON Pub, Bar or Restaurant >Date: Sat, Feb 26, 2000, 1:22 PM > > Pat's posting brought something to my husband's mind, though he does not > remember that McMahon Pub. > > His remembers a little about a bar and sandwich place owned by his uncle, > Leon Touchon. It was either in Sterling or Watchung. > It was called Touchon's Grove. > > > Well, I certainly got side-tracked! Sorry about that, but I am just so > excited about the cards, etc. Again, if anyone remembers Touchon's Grove, > please contact us! > > Best to all on the list, > Sydney Cardner (the Sydney is female) > Florida SEE NEXT: TOUCHONS yes, I danced there many a Saturday night in the 50s and my parents likewise in the years before! Here's how a Warren Township Historical Society newsletter (Vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1994 issue) reads, and there also is 1930s pixture of bar and dancehall with Sunoco Station in front: "Leon Touchon, whose ancestors were French-speaking Swiss, opened his general store and gasoline station on Stirling Road in the early 1930s. The area, then known as South Stirling (or Sterling) was sparsely populated except for nearby Plainfield Gardens: the presence of this new de4velopment and the many autos it brought to Warren, probably explain's choice of location. Touchon's general store, which he dubbed "The Lone Oak" and gas station were joined in the 1940s to begin in a second life as Touchon's Bar and Grill. Mary, his wife, prepared the food while Leon and his son, Lion Jr. tended bar. The gas pumps remained outside for many years; even after Touchon sold the bar and grill, he kept the gas station. Touchon's was a popular watering spot for Warrenites for over two decades. In 1944 the Touchons donated the land on which American Legion Post 293 later built its club house. Leon (b.January 9, 1898) and Mary Touchon retired in the 1950s to Florida, where they both died." end of article... So perhaps others of that NJ area and of nostalgia will enjoy that ! By the way, Bruce Cardner, I believe I may have gone to school with you or at the same time, maybe...Watchung...I remember your name. Jan in California ---------- >>> >> > >