CLOSTER, N.J.—This week we take a look back at the Closter School—later Village Middle School—which will soon get a new life as affordable housing. The Closter Public School at Durie […]
EMERSON, N.J.—We go back 125 years for a strange tale out of Etna—an earlier name for Emerson—that appeared in newspapers all over the country. Little rural Etna had fewer than […]
An Old Tappan husband and wife were seriously injured—but recovered—after their automobile was struck by a train at the Blanche Avenue crossing in Norwood on Sept. 27, 1929. Authorities regarded […]
Can you imagine Englewood ever looking like this? This photo goes back to 1880 and looks down Palisade Avenue, eastward across the railroad tracks. Back then, decades before cars would […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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