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June 14, 2025
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Articles by Kristin Beuscher

Mittag & Volger fronted Park Avenue in Park Ridge where Veterans Park is today. The massive factory stretched south along the train tracks, about where the Park Ridge Crossing condominiums stand now. In the early 20th century this firm was the world’s largest manufacturer of typewriter ribbon. Collection of the Pascack Historical Society.
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Roof With a View: Park Ridge and Woodcliff in 1905

June 5, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE, N.J.—The Woodcliff Reservoir was a recent addition to the landscape when our featured photograph was captured 120 years ago this week: June 10, 1905. The rooftops in the […]

Class of 1965 graduates stage a playful photograph for the 1965 yearbook.
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The kids of ’65 have got ‘Miles to Go’ — and they’re on their way

June 1, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

DEMAREST, N.J.—With high school commencements right around the corner, here’s a look at a graduation photo going back 60 years, to the class of 1965. This one comes from Northern […]

Charles Latterman's livery stable in Park Ridge, where horses were rented and boarded. The building was on Broadway, facing the railroad tracks.
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From horses to Harleys in Park Ridge

June 1, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE, N.J.—Talk about keeping up with the times! At the turn of the last century, most people who were traveling to the Pascack Valley from outside the region were […]

Photographed 120 years ago this week—on May 20, 1905—two boys stand outside Montvale's School No. 1 at Summit Avenue and Spring Valley Road. When the school opened in 1899, only 400 people lived in Montvale.
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Montvale’s tale of two schoolhouses

May 18, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

MONTVALE, N.J.—At the turn of the 20th century, Montvale ended up with two identical schoolhouses less than 2 miles apart. Here is how it happened. Montvale had become a separate […]

The Hillsdale Manor railroad station in 1910, on the east side of the tracks, south of Parkview Drive. The station was in use for 50 years before it was torn down in the 1940s.
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Hillsdale’s Gilded Age suburb

May 9, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

HILLSDALE, N.J.—Hillsdale’s railroad station at Broadway and Hillsdale Avenue is a focal point of the community, an important piece of local history, and a landmark that even appears on the […]

Gently rolling River Vale as seen from Abram C. Holdrum’s farm in 1899. He owned more than 160 acres west of the Hackensack River.
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Roaming the Open Landscape of Old River Vale

May 1, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

RIVER VALE, N.J.—The warmest week so far this year. Pasture is growing rapidly, potatoes about all planted, oats coming up. Warm rain is needed. The wheat and rye are looking […]

Farmland was giving way to front yards in the Pascack Valley at the turn of the 20th century. Park Ridge was described as a commuter’s paradise when this view was captured around 1905 from the top of the Mittag & Volger typewriter ribbon factory. These houses still stand on South Maple Avenue, although then it was called Elizabeth Street.
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‘Swampless!’ Selling suburbia in the early 20th century

April 26, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

PASCACK VALLEY AREA, Bergen County, N.J.—By the dawn of the 1900s, the Pascack Valley was well on its way toward shedding its rural roots and becoming a suburb as we […]

Stride Rite shoes
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Easter nostalgia: Shiny shoes and Sunday best!

April 19, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD, N.J.—Do you remember when Easter meant a spiffy new outfit? A boy would get a suit with either a necktie or a bowtie, and these sets would include shorts […]

The original Hillsdale Methodist Church as shown on a postcard mailed in 1910.
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Methodist church was first in Hillsdale

April 11, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

HILLSDALE, N.J.—Hillsdale United Methodist Church, at Magnolia and Hillsdale avenues, has been at its present location for the past 70 years, opening in April 1955. However, the Methodist denomination has […]

Aftermath! Dale Visage searched, like a man possessed, for the children he still believed trapped in the burning wreck of their house, 264 David Hooper Place in Westwood.The blast blew the wall out and threw the 30-year-old father into the yard, knocking him unconscious.
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The house explosion that rocked Westwood

April 4, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD, N.J.—Some readers might remember when this event took place. Maybe you heard or felt the blast. The date was April 4, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Visage were living […]

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