mobster1 t1_jdmq2do wrote on March 25, 2023 at 3:30 PM

Reply to comment by FantasticMrCuss in A Rickel Home Center location in Menlo Park, NJ sometime in the 1990s. Rickel was an early forerunner to Home Depot based in South Plainfield. Bulldozed for a Target. Photo from Flickr user Jeffrey Johnson featured on Facebook page Remembering Retail. by 7nationarmy

isnt that a hotel not apartments

Spiritual-Stress-525 t1_jdn4c6l wrote on March 25, 2023 at 5:12 PM

They also converted Roosevelt hospital across Parsonage road into apartments.
I know there is the Veteran's home behind where Target is and the Nursing home on the hill, I don't recall the mental hospital behind the the Rickles site though.

mobster1 t1_jdn9yds wrote on March 25, 2023 at 5:51 PM

I have a link I found, first picture is the mental hospital with the rickets in front, then second picture, its the target where the mental hospital was, and rickels is the parking lot, (and you can see the little building where mattress firm and anthony coal fire pizza is) rickets and mental hospital http://images.yuku.com/image/bmp/1c416d284733520fe75472db77a2982a61ccfd1c.bmp

target now http://images.yuku.com/image/bmp/d2836016270848c43f9d58db05a5e9621fe0b039.bmp

found a small picture and the map, picture in left corner http://wikimapia.org/27369167/Site-of-Edison-Tuberculosis-Sanatorium-aka-Menlo-park-mental-institution

katfromjersey t1_jdnhynz wrote on March 25, 2023 at 6:48 PM

I think the portion of the old Hospital is now a hospice care building.

Spiritual-Stress-525 t1_jdnvdod wrote on March 25, 2023 at 8:25 PM

It could be. I moved in 2021, just when they were finishing it. It looks pretty fancy from the park though, in a 1930s WPA way