Joe Bilby sends in this image he came across. Of course, it's the crossroads of Downtown, Broad and Market streets. Couldn't say what year this is -- early '30s? The Bastille-like Prudential building dominates the local architecture, and there's an interesting assemblage of shops where Woolworth's would later open its doors. Thanks, Joe.

Checking out those ads in this great old photo.Puritan is the ice cream brand "churned out" by Wiedenmayer Brewing once prohibition hit.Wiedenmayer's & Sons Brewing was an Ironbound brewery founded in 1879.Like all breweries,they were forced to change their business direction due to prohibition in order to survive.Puritan Ice Cream survived into the 1950s when it was sold to Philadelphia Dairies.

Could someone tell me if Chock-full-of-nuts (some kind of name like that)_ still exist?? they had my favorite tuna sandwhich still to this day!!

What the heck is that tower in the middle of Broad Street?

That's a trophy awarded to the police officer
in front, who coached "Continental Can Company"
to a win over "The Three Bees" in PAL little
league action. He couldn't fit it in his house.

The team you were assigned if you didn't make one, or didn't have one. Red hats & red uniforms.
Jim-Bo, question ...what did the 3 B's stand for? I do not remember.

Become Better Ballplayers.

No, that wasn't it. Three B's was a
department store downtown. I'm surprised it's not
in the picture. It could have been a Jewish?
merchants slogan "Benji's Big Bargains"
or Italian? "Big Bennie's Blowouts"
African Americans, "Black Brothers Bodega"
or named after one of our own:
"Bernie Bought Beers".

That's a mechanical traffic tower, with "Stop" and "Go" signs that were operated manually from ground level. Read somewhere a few years back that it now stands in a cemetary someplace in Jersey.

thats the name of that steel contraption standing in the middle of Broad & Market back in the 1920s & 30s.It can be seen in all its glory at CrestHaven cemetery in Clifton.

I guess there's a lot of traffic there
with people just dying to get in?

I was told many years ago by my grand-aunt that Newark flaunted the fact Broad and Market Street crossroads was the most travelled intersection in the world in the 20's and 30's. She also told me that her grandmother remembered seeing Abraham Lincoln come to Newark when she was six years old. Could this be true? Also at one time Newark was the 13th or 14th largest city in the US. I know in the mid-50;s, Newark ranked 19th.

Abrham Lincoln was in Newark twice, in 1861, pre-presidential, on the way to his inaugural in Washington & in 1865, his funeral train stopped in Newark on the way to his burial in Illinois.

So, it could have been true. She saw him alive. Supposedly, she was around 75 in 1930.
I saw Kennedy in 60, Wallace and McCarthy in 68. Didn't St. Lucys play at a Nixon Rally in Madison Square Garden in 68?

Don't know about St Lucy's and Nixon, but
the Imperial Lancers did one for Hugh
Addinizio at the Mosque downtown in 67 or 68.

That was the infamous night we rode all around
Newark on the back of a truck.

The five families of New York are well documented. Who are the five families of bodholts diner? The Crowleys, the Egans, the Davis family, the Cooks. Who else?

My vote for the five families:
Washington's
Cullinane's
Weingardners's
Goldy's
McGrath's.
Those were families. Just about
everybody who visits Bodholdt's
went to school with, hung out with
etc etc, one of these great families.
What other families had a few extra
children?

I remember being at that Addinizio thing with the Lancers. All night long they kept singing "If you knew Hughie like I knew Hughie, Oh Oh Oh what a guy". This website always jogs my ancient memory.