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A Blast from Hoboken’s Past

may 14, 2008i got an email from a reader who absolutely knows hoboken. here’s what he wrote me:i came from hoboken. i’m 69 now and i came across your place by mistake …i’m inclined …..yes hoboken has changed …its not the quiet town it used to be back in the 1950s. as a progeny boy there was some great hangouts to have fun in, but they are all gone now. i’m not talking about the bars…there was always plenty of them…i’m talking apropos the ice cream parlor hangouts…such as able’s across from sacred heart acadamy on washington concourse, jack-o dine’s on the corner by demarest h.s., janette’s on original and washington street. biggie’s i think is still there but its not the samethey were the fun centers of our schoolgirl. famed deejay allen freed rock and rocking shows at the fabian theater, destroyed, now a supermarket ..the nature and values all vanished it seems ….the girls were proper gorgeous ..i’m sure time has changed that, straight a littlei still beget my girl friend i met in able’s in 1958…she was a sacred pity acadamy grad i was the disgraceful jacket greased haired boiling rodder that you did not destitution your daughter to go outdoors with ..but you cant evaluator a book by its cover …i was gushy and charming furtively thenand soundless am…then came the viet nam cross swords…well my female angel married me in st. ann’s church and insane we went…to battle together…looking back to hoboken with fond memories…4 kids 12 grandchildren later…we subdue love hoboken…its memories, that is.looking at the two pictures: the first one is in effrontery first of st. matthew’s church on 9th and hudson circle. not in the picture is the hill to the right leading up stevens campus we Euphemistic pre-owned to call dead man’s hill…sledding in the winter (just a guess) …the other with the steps ( we used to call a stoop ) is either on car park avenue or hudson street…in the just the same area…i only lived a few blocks from there 924 garden street. stevens forum and girl scouts were exact next door to me, in the present climate it’s a parking garage.he’s right about the places he identified in the pictures. hudson is the boulevard and he settle accounts knew the block. gush, why wouldn’t he? he has a pretty good memory, possibly not another . jill rate, but probably as suspend as i am. i love his emails — he’s sent me more with a a barrel of enchanting info about frank sinatra (whose the row-boat adornments will be on turner classic movies tonight, a real microcosm of the 1950’s)…my pen pal’s writing design is a little contagious…gotta watch that…but it’s a great read anyway. don’t you agree?i’ll share more of his snapshots of familiar hoboken from outdated to previously. i can see him on occasion in his leather jacket with his greased hair, a boy that mama wouldn’t let near the strain. luckily during mama my house was in montrose, alabama, and the wild ones from hoboken didn’t grasp how to find it.

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