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BACK IN TIME: Tenafly Tigers Show Their Stripes
TENAFLY, N.J.—We go back 80 years to the football season of 1939 for this photo of the Tenafly Tigers, snapped on the steps of their high school. Tenafly’s striped uniforms […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
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BACK IN TIME: The Wolgast Family’s Farmhouse
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—Depending on how long you’ve lived in the area, your memories of the corner of Pascack and Ridgewood roads in the Township of Washington will vary widely. […]
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BACK IN TIME: A Local Love Affair That Led To A Lawsuit
We go back 125 years in the Northern Valley for a story of a jilted woman who turned to the law for vindication. The following article, reprinted in its entirety, […]
Cresskill
BACK IN TIME: An Old-Time Englewood Auto Dealer
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—This advertisement takes us back a full 115 years to September of 1904, when Varley’s in Englewood was pushing the 15-horsepower Pierce at a price of $2,500. Back in […]
Pascack Press
BACK IN TIME: Long Before The Days Of Laptops
WESTWOOD, N.J.—Step back into the days before digital with this photo snapped in the Westwood High School’s south library in 1946. Take note of the card catalog in the center […]
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BACK IN TIME: The Old One-Room Schoolhouse
HILLSDALE, N.J.—The first school in Hillsdale, built in 1856, sat on Pascack Road at its intersection with Hillsdale Avenue. In its first year, enrollment at the school was 36 students. […]
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BACK IN TIME: Hanging Out At Tenafly’s First Public School
TENAFLY, N.J.—Can you imagine a scene like this taking place today? Below, kids are all over Tenafly’s first public school—and no safety nets in sight!—in a photograph taken around 1890. […]
Alpine
BACK IN TIME: The summer of ’49 Comes To a Close
PALISADES INTERSTATE PARK, N.J.—Nestled in the wooded cliffs off the Palisades Interstate Parkway between exits 2 and 3 stands the State Line Cafe, otherwise known as the Lookout Inn. Cozy, […]
Hillsdale
Next Stop: Hillsdale’s Manor Train Station
HILLSDALE, N.J.—Hillsdale’s railroad station at Broadway and Hillsdale Avenue is a focal point of the community, an important piece of local history, and a landmark that even appears on the […]
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BACK IN TIME: The circus that no kids could attend
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—Pictured here, a scene from August of 1931 shows the Downie Bros. Wild Animal Circus as it parades through downtown Englewood. This photo was taken on Palisade Avenue. In […]