In Dickie Dee's the other day someone mentioned they used to patronize Holly's Luncheonette on First & Orange, and I promised to dig up this photo from the NPL's Berg Collection. I don't remember ever dining there myself, but what a great location -- all the Tung-Sol workers must have eaten lunch there.

Your looking south east on the corner of 1st and orange street ...

That's Holly's resturant....Where I washappy to plunk nickels into a Wurlitzerand listen to the newest Four Seasons.....

The first door in front is the entrance...The next to the left was the apartments above .

The next was to the dining area,off the phone booths (were the bookies did their business), and the owner and them played pinochle half the night....

The board down by the trash can was the news-stand...

Behind the resturant, out of sight to the right there was a 20 foot peach tree that had some great fruit on it, every year...

The smoke stack and large building is the tung-sol factory....

Out of sight and across 1st street to the right was al's corner tavern...then to it's right was johnny walkers lounge...it burned in 64 or 65.....

That traffic light pole was a riot...we'd wait till a speeder came flying down orange street, wack it with a bat ...it would go red from the shock....
It's long gone now just like the rest of the neighborhood....

Thanks for the memories John....

Johnny Boy, the opposite side of the street was the home away from home (4th Street) site of your father's Continental Can Company's baseball dominance. The old Newark Academy field. Holly's was the place for drinks...cherry cokes, ices etc., before & after. Right down 1st street was the home of Tommy 'Beans' Gowers, who I had the pleasure of reuniting after 40 years thanks to your Bodholt's site.

Thanks, John -- I do recall many visits to the NA field, usually to get car fare from my old man so I could take the subway to Washington Street and visit the library. I was something of an odd man out back then.

Johnny G, thanks for the note you sent about Holly's, and the photo below of the gang at Al's corner tavern, on the southwest corner of 1st and Orange. You mention it was from 1962-65 somewhere. Anybody recognize anybody?

Did that bar become "Chubby and Joey's", with go-go girls and characters that looked like Joey Walnuts? I remember Benny Abruzzo bringing that bottles of coins in exchange for greenbacks. That was in his pre-policeman days or he would have hauled them all in.