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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. […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
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Giving rise to a reservoir: Politics, fortitude, and, sadly, prejudice in origin of a local gem
WOODCLIFF LAKE—It is difficult to imagine our Pascack Valley landscape without Woodcliff Reservoir. Yet this enormous body of water, with a capacity of 871 million gallons, did not always exist. […]
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The party’s at St. Mary’s
PARK RIDGE—The first week of August 1903, Park Ridge was the place to be in the Pascack Valley. Folks from all over flocked to the little town, then home to […]
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Valley got its tennis on in the 1930s
PARK RIDGE—Just look at those cars! This 1930s photograph shows the tennis courts that once stood where the Park Ridge firehouse does now, behind borough hall, on Park Avenue. These […]
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‘Healthiest region east of the Rockies’
MONTVALE—Powhatan Park was a colony of summer homes developed in Montvale in the 1910s. Today its grounds would include Waverly, Forest, and Westmoreland avenues, off the north side of East […]
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An escape from the tenements
WOODCLIFF—July 12: “Major Glenn, of the Volunteers of America, a warm friend of General Ballington Booth, has arranged to give a week’s outing in the country to mothers and infants […]
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Iron Horse sold but memories power on
WESTWOOD—After 50 years, Lee and Annie Tremble are turning over the Iron Horse restaurant to a new owner. It opens a new chapter for them, as well as in the […]
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Summers at Pine Lodge in the 1930s
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Pine Lake, which was at the northwest corner of Pascack and Ridgewood roads, was a popular recreation attraction from the 1930s to the 1970s. Especially loved by area […]
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Hillsdale kids of 1935 onward, upward
HILLSDALE—Hillsdale’s eighth-grade graduating class numbered 28 when this commencement photo was snapped in June 1935. The kids attended what was then called the Hillsdale Public School. Located at Hillsdale and […]
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Motoring through Westwood, 1912
WESTWOOD—The viewer was looking up Main Street from Railroad Avenue. Nowadays, using the modern names, we would say it is looking up Westwood Avenue from Broadway. This was an era […]