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BACK IN TIME: Winter at the Tenafly station
TENAFLY, N.J.—It’s a 1930s winter in this scene that looks at the Tenafly Railroad Station. Just look at those old cars! Today the Tenafly station stands as a prized historical […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
Hillsdale
BACK IN TIME: Putting the ‘Lake’ in Woodcliff
It’s Woodcliff Lake today, but back when this photo (above) was snapped more than 110 years ago, it was just Woodcliff. The image comes from a postcard, and the version […]
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Charlie Brown’s In Old Tappan Was Once Lein’s Grove: BACK IN TIME
OLD TAPPAN, N.J.—The Charlie Brown’s restaurant in Old Tappan closed up shop this past week after 40 years at its Old Tappan Road location. (RELATED STORY: Charlie Brown’s Closes, citing […]
Alpine
BACK IN TIME: Sing Sing Prison Break Ended In Englewood
Englewood was not yet a city, there was only the most rudimentary of police protection, and there wasn’t even a headquarters or jail cell in town. And yet, it’s where […]
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BACK IN TIME: A Snowy Day at Pine Lodge
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—It’s a snowy day in Washington Township in this photo (above) that shows the Pine Lodge, corner of Pascack and Ridgewood Roads, as it looked 90 years […]
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This Week in Local History: Burglars Strike All Over Bergen
BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.—At the beginning of 1908, the Pascack and Northern valleys were experiencing a rash of burglaries. The rather brazen criminals targeted homes, businesses—even the Closter National Bank, where […]
Alpine
BACK IN TIME: Bergen County’s Coldest Day Ever
BERGEN COUNTY—Our current weather forecast would have seemed downright balmy to those who lived through early January 1904. The new year kicked off with a snowstorm in conjunction with a […]
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BACK IN TIME: Memoir recalls an Old Tappan Christmas from long ago
OLD TAPPAN, N.J.—May E. Mence Gifford was born in Old Tappan back in 1881, at a time of dirt roads, horses and wagons, years before the first phone came to […]
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BACK IN TIME: Christmas in the Kinderkamack Countryside
EMERSON, N.J.—German-born Daniel and Christina Heck first moved to Kinderkamack, later renamed Emerson, in 1869 and bought the land consisting of an old house, barn, outbuildings and 63 acres of […]
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BACK IN TIME: A Century Ago, the Victrola was a Hot Ticket at Christmas
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—Long before anybody wanted the latest iPhone for Christmas, the Victrola phonograph was a hot ticket during the holiday season of 1919. You could pick one up at the […]