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BACK IN TIME: The Burglars Who Needed a Snack
BY KRISTIN BEUSCHEROF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Local lawmen guessed it might be the work of “hoboes” when three houses in Norwood were burglarized in the early morning hours of Dec. […]
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BACK IN TIME: Cresskill’s First Supermarket
Who can remember back when there was a Valley Fair in Cresskill? Once located at the present-day site of Kings on Union Avenue, Valley Fair opened this week back in […]
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BACK IN TIME: Kidnapped Mail Porter Found in Palisades Woods
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS NORTHERN VALLEY- Our little corner of America made nationwide headlines 90 years ago this week, when a railroad porter was found […]
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BACK IN TIME: Rockslide reveals ‘Hitler’s face’ on the cliffs
A rockslide, a trick of the light and a case of pareidolia caused many people to see what looked like Adolf Hitler’s face on the cliffs of the Palisades during […]
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BACK IN TIME: Closter commuters turn window-washers to send message to railroad
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Closter, New Jersey—When the Erie Railroad tried to cut costs by reducing its cleaning staff in 1914, the people of Closter […]
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BACK IN TIME: Northern Valley was scandalized by a woman wearing pants
BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Northern Valley, New Jersey — In 1939, a woman named Ellen Tilton Holmsen was kicked out of Harrington Park for the offense of […]
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BACK IN TIME: Mrs. Lyle and the memorial chimes that tormented Tenafly
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Tenafly, New Jersey — Tenafly multi-millionaire John S. Lyle had been known to make news headlines during his life. One of […]
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BACK IN TIME: The venerable old oak that stood in Emerson
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] Washington Oak Park still exists in Emerson, but the one-time focal point of this land, a centuries-old oak tree, has been gone for decades. In 1959, the Daughters […]
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BACK IN TIME: A winter’s day in downtown Tenafly
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS It might look like a scene from the Wild West, but this is how downtown Tenafly looked about 110 years ago. […]
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BACK IN TIME: The Powhatan colony in Montvale
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF PASCACK PRESS Powhatan Park was the name of a bungalow colony of summer homes developed in Montvale in the 1910s. Today, its grounds would […]