Re: You know you're a JC old-timer if you remember...
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Brook Valley Day camp was great fun.
I remember going on walks and we would find salamanders. Some of the guys were good at catching bull frogs. I also remember there was a peach orchard nearby and we would go there and snatch peaches off the trees. Those peaches were gigantic. One day, when a bunch of guys were in the tree, a branch snapped and fell on one of the guys. He was hurt. The branch fell on his shoulder. After that we ran back to the camp. Someone said the orchard owner had a shot gun and that he used it to to shoot salt pellets at the kids. It was great fun.
Posted on: 2014/1/20 5:36
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I remember Murray's toy store. We used to go there to get the latest Match Box Cars and Hot Wheel cars. If I recall correctly, they cost 89 cents! As for Hot Wheel cars...we walked there one day specifically to get the Spittin' Image...they didn't have it that day, but they finally got it in stock.
It was great to be able to go to a store dedicated solely to toys. Those were the days. We had great fun. And, again, if I recall correctly, they were a block or so from Sandler's...where the boys would get their gym shorts (green for 40 school...blue for 30). The girls were relegated to those blue hideous one piece suits. I remember going to Brummer's with my grandmother. It was always a big deal. We felt like we were going somewhere special. I remember also when they shot scenes from the movie: The Sting at that location. B Harrison
Posted on: 2013/12/1 18:47
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Re: Old cemeteries in JC
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The cemetery by Dickenson is named Jersey City-Harsimus Cemetery. I was there in 1969 for the burials of my great-grandparents.
it is currently run by volunteers. Byron S. Harrison
Posted on: 2013/12/1 18:33
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To this day, when I think of really good traditional Chinese Restaurants, I often think of the Canton.
I'm not sure places like that exist much anymore. They have been replaced by urban corner, or suburban strip mall establishments that pale in comparison.
Posted on: 2013/6/15 22:55
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Also...
If you remember when Curries was nice place to live The stink pot way staircase The portable pool behind 71 Merritt Street and the day someone filled it with furniture Hitting the trains. The sneaker factory fire in Bayonne You could pay your Curries Woods rent in the main office. When white people still lived in Curries Woods and everyone got along And the old people would sit out front on lawn chairs at night When Marion projects closed down and they all came over to Curries Woods When they still used the incinerators to burn garbage When the mail boxes were in the building lobbies. Trick or treating and trying to avoid the guys with socks filled with flour. When lighteing struck the chimney at 5 Heckman Drive and 71 Merritt Street Sam the German Shepard from Pamrapo Avenue and the fear he spread across Curries Woods. Diane's Dress Shop on Old Bergen Road. The Salvage Store The Good Humor Man The Pizza Truck The laundry mat at 5 Heckman Drive Country Village was off limits to black people When every public school kid in Curries Woods went to PS 40 (Ezra L. Nolan) Summer time swimming at P.S. 40 Hudson Cleaners on Ocean and Gates, the A&P across the street and the pizza parlor at the corner of Gates and Old Bergen road. And when you could get a slice of really good pizza for 25-Cents Charcoal Treat Bay Cinema and the time when they were showing Logan's Run and when they got to brief nude scene the projectionist covered the lens so we couldn't see the screen The Skating Rink on the Boulevard Ebony Club parties at St. Peter's Prep. The Omicrons The late summer night when the Bones came to Curries Woods looking for trouble in a Volkswagon Beetle and the car broke down on Heckman Drive near 5 Heckman. Super Saver Grocery Store on Garfield Avenue Sinclair Gas on Garfield Avenue The Cottilion at the Church of the Incarnation. The house on Summitt Avenue where Black Panther meetings were held. Vote Robinson for Mayor Row A-5
Posted on: 2012/10/2 2:04
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I also remember:
Ape Day at Lowe?s Theatre when they showed all five Planet of the Apes Movies back to back The gruff old bus dispatcher at the Greenville Bus Co. depot on Merritt Street who would gas up the busses with a cigar smoldering in his mouth Nino?s Used Cars at Claremont and Garfield Cameo Theatre on Ocean near Cator When ambulances were Cadillacs The Central Railroad of New Jersey Ferry Hudson County Police
Posted on: 2012/10/1 15:50
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I remember the bus driver. I remember the B-1 bus. And if I am correct wasn't there a B-52 bus and a B-29? On the way home, we used to kneel in the back row seat of the bus looking out the rear window and when the bus driver would hit the bumps, we would bounce up. I also remember going to the camp and just before we got to the camp, we'd make a very tight right turn onto a narrow bridge over a set of railroad tracks. And, if I remember correctly, Thursday was the one overnight at Brook Valley.
Posted on: 2012/10/1 15:44
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This is some of what I remember...
The Bones...and they were not a mythical gang...I know people who were attacked by the bones. Sandler?s on Ocean Avenue for converse sneakers, gym shorts for boys and the one piece blue gym suits for girls. Sodano?s Live Poultry Shop on Ocean Avenue near Gates Avenue Two Guys on Route 440 Great Eastern on 440 near the Roosevelt Drive-in The Bookmobile The Showmobile The Greenville Avenue bus when they were Green The Bergen Avenue bus when they were Orange The Central Avenue Bus when they were Brown The Blvd Bus when it was Gray The Montgomery Avenue Bus when it was Maroon The Red and Tan Bus Line Bay Cinema at City Line Plaza Bay Drugs at City Line Plaza Bayonne Pool on the Blvd Journal square when you had to catch the busses outside because the Path Center had not yet been built Robert Hall on Route 440 King Lincoln Mercury at Seaview Avenue and the Blvd. When the apartment buildings on Merritt Street were considered better than those on Heckman Drive Chips Grocery Store at Heckman Drive and Old Bergen Road The old Italian guy who would sell vegetables and fruit on his small flatbed truck Zimp?s Kitchen Milt's Liquors in the Lafayette Section Gino?s Featuring Kentucky Fried Chicken Whimpy Johnson?s Barber Shop on Ege Avenue Call Me G?s on Jackson Avenue Casino in the Park Shop Rite on 440 before it became a Rickle?s. Lorsch 5th Avenue at Journal Sq. Trust Bldg Sound Machine (Record Shop on the Blvd near the Square) The Orange Store (Candy Store on Gates Avenue across the street from PS 40) The 99-S Bus Brook Valley Day Camp Finast Grocery Store on Ocean Avenue across from Bayview Cemetery
Posted on: 2012/10/1 5:22
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