Jersey City has always been a special place for me. I guess that is because I was born and grew up here. Unlike other cities Jersey City never went into a deep decline because of its powerful Democratic Machine. Today the city is going through a rebirth and unlike most cities it has a new building going up just about every week. It is close to New York only 8 minutes away. You can get to Times Square, the financial District or midtown faster than if you live in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens or Staten Island. You have great views of the city. This collection is dedicated to my hometown Jersey City. YOU KNOW IF YOUR FROM JERSEY CITY IF YOU KNOW: 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 Sams 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 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 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, hed 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 citys 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 youhouse and never visited them.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:02:05 +0000
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