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Advertising from the icebox era
WESTWOOD—Refrigerators are among those things we don’t think much about until the power goes out. We have all put our lightning reflexes to the test during an outage, opening and […]
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Another one bites the dust: Bootlegger’s den at Overbrook
HILLSDALE—“Two 300-gallon stills, hundreds of barrels and bottles, and all the paraphernalia necessary to conduct a huge distillery, were uncovered last Friday in a raid on the former Overbrook Country […]
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‘Parking petters’ vex peaceable Township of Washington
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Off the beaten path from the Pascack Valley railroad line, the Township of Washington had stayed rural well into the 20th century. In the 1920s, the population was […]
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Everyone’s going horseless!
PASCACK VALLEY—In the featured photograph, taken in the early 1900s, two early automobiles kick up dust in a race on Broadway in Park Ridge. The drivers are heading in the […]
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David P. Patterson and the creation of a railroad suburb
HILLSDALE—The corner of Patterson Street and Hillsdale Avenue is nothing out of the ordinary these days. Occupied by one of many banks in the Pascack Valley, customers go back and […]
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Pause and Healey superlative
PARK RIDGE—From March 10 to 14, 1924, life at Park Ridge High was a real popularity contest. That week the students cast their ballots in a race to proclaim the […]
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Before it was Stegemann’s Cock ‘n’ Bull…
NORWOOD—Once a Colonial home, later a restaurant, now just a memory. This little piece of local history is recent enough that many people reading right now will surely remember it. […]
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‘The Hoot’ roosts in Washington
PARK RIDGE—This week in 1940, “The Hoot” headed to Washington, D.C. The trip was for students on the staff of the school’s yearbook (long known as “The Hoot,” reflecting the […]
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Westwood first with firefighting company, 1894
WESTWOOD—On a wintry day long ago, Westwood’s bravest posed proudly. Westwood was the first community in the Pascack Valley to formally organize a firefighting company. Continental Hook and Ladder Co. […]
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School days and a century
PARK RIDGE—The photograph at top was snapped on Pascack Road (or Main Street as it was called then) in Park Ridge on a winter’s day more than a century ago. […]