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Re: You know you're a JC old-timer if you remember...
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I didn't know about the Indians, but in my mom's day (the forties) the Jersey City Giants played at the Roosevelt Stadium too. They were the Giants farm team. That's why Jackie Robinson technically broke the color barrier right here in our JC. His first day playing for major league organization was for the Dodgers farm team at Roosevelt Stadium. And speaking of Roosevelt Stadium, how could I forget about the rock concerts there. My sisters saw The Dead, The Eagles, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper and many more. They saw CSNand Y the night Nixon resigned. The band announced it right before doing Four Dead in Ohio, and the place went nuts. Unfortunately, they stopped the concerts before I was old enough to go. My mother said I had to be 14 - and that meant old enough to go with just my friends. God, we had a lot of freedom.
Posted on: 2009/9/27 1:48
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Rickles Home Improvements (Pathmark's first home)
Great Eastern Modern Hatters Danny Mack Shoes The Glove Shop Zimps Kitchen The first White Castle building on Newark Ave & K. Blvd. Taking your road test at DMV behind Roosevelt Stadium.
Posted on: 2009/9/27 0:09
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Here's a few things that I am old enough to remember:
Liss Drugstore in Journal Square Two Guys and Valley Fair on Route 440 Shop Rite on Christopher Columbus Drive The FotoMat near Acme Supermarket on Garfield Avenue The road known as Heckman Drive that ran through Curries Woods Dixon Pencil Company (my mom worked there) The old Bay Cinema at City Line Plaza (Too young to go in but recall it showing porn flicks)
Posted on: 2009/9/26 23:42
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Nice!!!!! I sure do remember the 3 wheelers and the gunbelts totally cool!!! Howcome you left off: RANDS icecream The guy that use to sell Tripe and other meats from that Green truck and use to yell out "A TREEP"...LOL Parlors fabrics Mr Jiggs being hired by some local pta to perform during school assemblys. Pick n Pay on Newark ave Sickles Music
Posted on: 2009/9/26 22:35
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ha! So true. Here's one: The Jersey City Indians (Cleveland's farm team) played at the Roosevelt Stadium.
Posted on: 2009/9/26 21:51
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Jupiters? you must be a kid. That's that "new" store that moved in after Kresge's 5&10 closed. Also: The "ragman" with his horse and wagon. Cops on 3 wheeled motorcycles. Cops with 38's and cartridge belts full of REAL bullets that were exactly at little kid eye level. The mayor who was not a U.S. citizen. The mayor who was a doctor The huge, loud helicopter shuttle between the PanAm building and Newark airport that flew directly over MY house. The mini hook and ladder fire engine ride that rode you around the block (what a ripoff, that ride sucked). When there was absolutely no reason to ever go to Secaucus because there was absolutely nothing there.
Posted on: 2009/9/26 18:01
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*jUPITORS on Central ave
*The nut shop on Central ave. *Sub-shop on Bergen across from Hudson Catholic. *440 shopper to th Hudson mall. *Rays pizza in the heights. *Wow records *Texas weiners on Hutton &Central *Pancake house on Central ave *Escapades on Westside ave *Paradise east on Danforth (Never proofed anyone for drinks) Silvers toy store in the heights.
Posted on: 2009/9/26 17:07
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Ah, the good old days when:
You couldn't buy a New York Times anywhere. Columbus Drive was Railroad. Pavonia Hilton meant the local slammer. (now, it probably means there is (egad!) a Hilton hotel somewhere on Pavonia Ave.) The Army/Navy store on Newark showed the same window display that they had done at the start of WW2, just proving that good quality ILGWU garments did not fade and always stayed in fashion. The live poultry place on Second St, where you selected your fowl and watched the nice man wring its neck for you. Mrs.Tedaro's coffee store in Italian village -- the best beans in the entire world. A beautiful huge floor-thru apartment on Hamilton Park south cost $200/month. There was not a skyscraper in sight, and "condo" sounded like a foreign language word.
Posted on: 2009/9/26 16:41
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You're right about the Bones. They did exist. I remember when the Jersey Journal published an article about them, but there were no members' names or any details except for the acronym. Mythical in a sense that their reputation scared the crap out of everyone in other parts of the city, but no one saw them. I only heard that most of them lived on the western slope of Greenville and Sterling Avenue. OTHER MEMORIES: - Not quite Jersey City, but we all went there: Palisades Amusement Park - Bergen Point Amusement Park - The day the sewers exploded on Newark Avenue - Mayor Smith's dog - The playground beneath The Turnpike on 7th Street - Jersey City had its own congressman
Posted on: 2009/9/26 15:43
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Thanks for that list. The memory of Uncle Milty's was especially fun.
I'll add some references for those slightly younger than your mom. You rode the "Whip" when it came around on the truck in the summertime. You ran behind the mosquito insectiside spray trucks that came around in summertime. the fog was fun. you drank beer at Roosevelt Stadium, the tracks, Lincoln Park, or any cemetery Remember when the Hudson Mall was an outdoor mall Bought your Easter or Christmas outfits at Two Guys Were born at the Margaret Hague identified what area of the city you were from by your parish Went to jug night at the Park Tavern every Thanksgiving And, of course, you know that OLM means Our Lady of Money And btw: The Bones was not a mythical gang. It was a bunch of white Greenville kids who's purpose was to Beat on N****** ever Saturday. Later they changed the S from every Saturday to Second. Many of my close friends are from Greenville and they knew a lot of people who were in this group..........................those kids were crazy and tough as nails. Thanks for that list
Posted on: 2009/9/26 14:35
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While at the Hoboken italian day Festival i thought about how great the mount Carmel feast used to be.It would go on for blocks
just like in Hoboken. Holy rosary Feast Columbus day Parade Tommy Smith in a Firemens hat helping Battle the Fire in City Hall. Meatloaf Day at Shannons Bar Walking the Tracks that connected the 6th street embankment.Back then the kids treated it like a park. When they turned the state theater into a disco roller rink.
Posted on: 2009/9/26 11:17
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- The Tube Bar
- Rand's Ice Cream - CYO Baseball - Charles Menswear on the Square - The Bus Stop Bar at Chestnut and Newark - Bonner's D&J Bar - Army & Navy Store Downtown - PATH didn't stop at Pavonia Station (now Newport) on weekends - Fights at Dickinson H.S between the Sons of Marion and Brothers of the Jersey City Heights - Everyone was afraid of the mythical gang known as "The Bones"
Posted on: 2009/9/26 5:43
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Add to that list...
The Loewe's, the Stanley, the State, and the Pix -- all movie theaters! Bowling at Roosevelt Lanes Meyer's (ice cream, candy, and luncheonette) on Bergen Avenue Cara Carson at the Square Liss and SilverRod drug stores at the Square Jules' and Ilvento's on West Side Avenue "The La" ("The La Petite") on Kennedy Blvd. Wenton's Shoe Store on Bergen Avenue Paris Bakery, Five Corners Bakery Barricini Chocolates Johnson's Stationery Store on Bergen Avenue Lee Sims Chocolates on Bergen Avenue (still there!) ...and that little costume shop on Bergen Avenue near Duncan, owned by the little old lady who was like a character right out of Dickens (the name escapes me now!)
Posted on: 2009/9/26 4:43
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Kiki?s on Second (the best JC restaurant we?ve ever had) and Brummer?s (the best ice cream parlor).
Posted on: 2009/9/26 0:39
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you're gonna make me cry ...
tippy's, canton, bettinger's, brummer's, roosevelt stadium
Posted on: 2009/9/26 0:02
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(via a much forwarded e-mail from my mom, who says she only remembers about half of these. i take no editorial responsibility )
* * * Hudson Boulevard had islands. You know how O'Hara's got its name. You knew all the troublemakers before they became cops. Martin Luther King Drive was Jackson Avenue Christopher Columbus Drive was Railroad Avenue Luiz Munoz Marin Boulevard was Henderson Street Manila Avenue was Grove Street Roosevelt Lanes & Putneys Pub Annual Holy Name and 'Americanization Day' Parades What Harvard on the Blvd. and St. Richards on the Hill are Getting Sunday suits at Robert Hall Sleigh riding down the Medical Center lawn or Mosquito Park Bettinger?s on the Square Uncle Milty?s / Bergen Pointe The Skyline Cabana Club You shopped in Woolworth on Journal Square and went to the Griddle or Driftwood after a movie The giant roach in the exterminator?s window on Westside Avenue Floor shows at the Canton Tea Garden Chinese Restaurant Charcoal burgers at Tippys The Tube Bar and Red the owner Shopping at Cheap Sam's on Central Avenue The Oyster Bay, Murtaghs, the Alps , Robinsons Steak House, and the Blue Piano The PATH train was .30 cents and before that they were called the Hudson Tubes The Happy Birthday Truck Ice skating at Roosevelt Stadium That St. Als Academy was known as snob hill The Bergen School The OLM dances The football Giants practicing at Roosevelt Stadium Drunks and derelicts donating blood for money at the blood bank next to McCrorys Everyone lived in a parish J.M. Fields Brummers Ice Cream Parlor at the Junction The Stanley Theater with clouds that moved over the ceiling You sat on the Buffalo at Mosquito Park and rode your sled in winter there Nedicks on the Square Monteleones Five Corners and the Paris Bakeries You and all your friends were born at the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital You lived in a house/apartment with at lease one cousin and/or grandparent on the same street You lived within ? mile of three catholic churches (with schools attached) The pool at North Street Park (and never called it Washington Park ) Your dad would take the whole family to the Roosevelt Drive-In, but if you were over 12, he'd hide you in the trunk You remember Mayor Smith and that he once sparred with Muhammad Ali. You remember Mayor Whelan and to which country the city's money "went". You went to the Mt. Carmel dances every Friday, Saturday & Sunday. You know someone who saw a UFO from Mosquito Park or the heights You knew which house on the Boulevard was haunted Everyone knew Sam DiFeo. You knew what time the Mosquito truck fogged the block with diazanon so you could run behind in the thick smoke You could see the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building from your house and never visited them.
Posted on: 2009/9/25 22:41
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