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Remembering Jerry’s Villa Montvale
MONTVALE—Having stood for decades at Spring Valley Road and Summit Avenue, Jerry’s Villa was the scene of so many banquets, parties, weddings, and other events that it was more of […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
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A tale of two fire departments
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—It has been a busy time for Township of Washington firefighters. Beyond their usual job of keeping us safe, there have been fire truck escorts for Santa Claus, […]
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At the ‘last’ Kmart’s first Christmas
WESTWOOD—The Kmart at 700 Broadway opened in autumn 1982. Forty years later it is one of only three remaining Kmart stores in the country, and the last in New Jersey. […]
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Town & Country Music had it all
WESTWOOD—How about this blast from the past! We go back 45 years to the holiday season of 1977, when this advertisement for Town & Country Music came out. It was […]
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WESTWOOD—A large part of Westwood Avenue used to be lined with houses. The image above, from the early 1900s, probably was taken around this time of year — the trees […]
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The Park Avenue Hotel of yore
PARK RIDGE—As we enjoy these last weeks of autumn and trees shed the last of their leaves, we go back to a similar time of year long ago. The photograph […]
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1942: A wartime Thanksgiving
PASCACK VALLEY—This week we turn back 80 years, to 1942, to when A&P published this advertisement a few days before Thanksgiving. The Pascack Valley had a couple of A&P locations […]
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Two homes fall to blaze in Etna
PASCACK VALLEY—This week in history: A fire at Etna. We go back 120 years, to mid- November 1902, when a fire took out two homes in Emerson—or as it was […]
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Cold bet: ‘Loser wades the brook’
PASCACK VALLEY—This week in local history: A chilly challenge. We go back 130 years to November 1892, when Republican Frederick Van Riper and Democrat Gilliam Ackerman made an election wager […]
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Ghostly folklore of the Glen
PASCACK VALLEY AREA—Atkins Glen has been a part of the culture of the Pascack Valley for generations. A deep ravine cut through the sandstone by the Bear Brook, the spot […]