Columnist Kristin Beuscher looks back in time at the bygone days of the Pascack Valley and Northern Valley’s people and places.
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—It’s difficult to imagine that Palisade Avenue in Englewood ever looked the way it does pictured above. Showing a dirt road and traffic only from horses and carriages, this […]
HARRINGTON PARK, N.J.—To stop the British invasion of the New England Colonies during the American Revolution, Peter Townsend manufactured a Great Chain at Sterling Forest for the Continental Army. The […]
It’s a snowy day in Closter in this image that was captured more than 110 years ago. Can you guess where the photo was taken? While no street name was […]
TENAFLY, N.J.—It’s a 1930s winter in this scene that looks at the Tenafly Railroad Station. Just look at those old cars! Today the Tenafly station stands as a prized historical […]
OLD TAPPAN, N.J.—The Charlie Brown’s restaurant in Old Tappan closed up shop this past week after 40 years at its Old Tappan Road location. (RELATED STORY: Charlie Brown’s Closes, citing […]
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—It’s a snowy day in Washington Township in this photo (above) that shows the Pine Lodge, corner of Pascack and Ridgewood Roads, as it looked 90 years […]
BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.—At the beginning of 1908, the Pascack and Northern valleys were experiencing a rash of burglaries. The rather brazen criminals targeted homes, businesses—even the Closter National Bank, where […]
CLOSTER, N.J.—It was a very retro Christmas party at Closter’s Lustron home, the relic of the post-World War II housing boom, a pre-fabricated structure at 421 Durie Ave., which is […]
OLD TAPPAN, N.J.—May E. Mence Gifford was born in Old Tappan back in 1881, at a time of dirt roads, horses and wagons, years before the first phone came to […]
EMERSON, N.J.—German-born Daniel and Christina Heck first moved to Kinderkamack, later renamed Emerson, in 1869 and bought the land consisting of an old house, barn, outbuildings and 63 acres of […]
Copyright 2024 The Press Group Inc. All Rights Reserved