The "New" Jersey City
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This is not the city you grew up in. It has changed
The Hudson Boulevard had islands.
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
Annual Holy Name and the '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. Al's Academy was known as snob hill
The Bergen School
The OLM dances
The football Giants practicing at Roosevelt Stadium
Everyone lived in a parish
J.M. Fields
Brummer's 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 ½ 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.
I grew up in this city and there are a lot of great memories here for me. This album is dedicated to those memories. I have designed it to reflect a little of the history along with pictures of today.