PASCACK VALLEY—Last week’s severe weather certainly put a damper on the Pascack Valley’s Fourth of July plans. A heat wave that saw temperatures soar into the triple digits was broken […]
CRESSKILL, N.J.—This week we go back 95 years to the creation of a Cresskill neighborhood. On July 9, 1921, a crowd gathered under a massive tent at the center of […]
EMERSON, N.J.—“Emerson wound up its 50th anniversary celebration last Friday and Saturday with events which attracted the largest crowds ever seen in the borough,” wrote the Westwood Chronicle on July […]
HILLSDALE, N.J—There’s no Zipper, Tilt-A-Whirl, or dizzying Round Up ride to be seen in this photograph from the Hillsdale Fire Association’s annual carnival held July 1–8, 1916. Generations of Pascack […]
MONTVALE, N.J.—Bobbed hair, knickers, and knee socks were the height of middle-school fashion when Montvale’s seventh and eighth grades posed for this photograph outside the borough’s grammar school in the […]
“The congregation of the Upper Montvale Church was driven out by a swarm of bees last night when the regular weekly prayer meeting was being held, and the services had […]
WESTWOOD, N.J.—Standing outside the Parkside Community Church building at the corner of Third and Park avenues, one would never guess that this contemporary house of worship has a 140-year history. […]
MONTVALE, N.J. Montvale sure has changed over the past 95 years. The population has grown from about 1,200 to 8,500. With that growth, acres of farmland and forest became homes […]
WESTWOOD—If you lived in the Pascack Valley 90 years ago, and you had 15 cents to spare, Westwood’s Casino theater was one option for a Saturday evening out. This early […]
A century ago, Pascack Valley residents gained a new option for getting into New York City. In April 1926, New York & New Jersey Motor Coach Co. opened an express […]
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