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When a woodie goes wild
WESTWOOD—Crash photos are captivating, and we expect this one got people talking when it appeared on the cover of the Westwood News on Oct. 20, 1955. The Country Store has […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
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Adorned for an old-fashioned autumn
ROCKLEIGH—As September turns to October, we are starting to see the appearance of jack-o’-lanterns, plastic tombstones, skeletons, and spiderwebs in Northern Valley neighborhoods. Halloween has become as much a holiday […]
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A new high school in Westwood
PASCACK VALLEY—They came from as far as Peetzburg. No, that isn’t a misspelling of Pennsylvania’s Steel City. Peetzburg, 110 years ago, referred to what is now a section of New […]
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1923 Owls gear up for gridiron glory
PARK RIDGE—We fall back a full century with a photograph of the Park Ridge High School football team snapped in autumn 1923. Here, the boys are outside their school—the same […]
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Hillsdale Troop 52 can do!
HILLSDALE—The attire might be updated, but scouting is just as popular today as when this photo of Hillsdale’s Troop 52 was taken in Hillsdale in September 1927. The Boy Scouts […]
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Westwood’s Lincoln School Days
WESTWOOD—The pupils in this early 20th century photograph are posing on the front steps of Westwood’s Lincoln School. All of the borough’s children through grade eight attended classes here starting […]
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Hanging out at Tenafly’s first public school
TENAFLY—Can you imagine a scene like this taking place today? Kids are all over Tenafly’s first public school—and no safety nets in sight!—in this photograph taken around 1890. In keeping […]
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Back to school in Hillsdale, 1933
HILLSDALE—Hopefully by now you have finished all your back-to-school shopping—but did you remember the argyle socks? We wonder how many of these children got new clothes before school started in […]
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Jack Dempsey in Emerson
PASCACK VALLEY—“The Holy Name smoker was not only a ‘first’ in this area (bringing Golden Glove boxers for the Father-Son Night), but it was one of the most successful events […]
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Riley Building Revisited
HILLSDALE—A scene captured in Hillsdale around 1908 shows the venerable Riley Building, at the corner of Broadway and Hillsdale Avenue, back when it was just a couple of years old. […]