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General Category => Hackensack History => Online Auctions/Local Images (Moderated by BLeafe) => Topic started by: BLeafe on August 16, 2009, 08:46:11 PM

Title: Cartoon Drawing: Lincoln Tunnel, Hackensack, Passaic Sign
Post by: BLeafe on August 16, 2009, 08:46:11 PM

http://xrl.us/LocalSign


There's no real historical interest here, but the sign made me think: where exactly would you have to be in Bergen County for the directional arrows to (almost) make sense?

Ignoring "Yesteryear", all I could come up with was Kinderkamack Rd in River Edge heading south.

I don't know where "Yesteryear" would go to..............Paterson, maybe?



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Title: Re: Cartoon Drawing: Lincoln Tunnel, Hackensack, Passaic Sign
Post by: Homer Jones on August 16, 2009, 09:33:36 PM

Try this:
Change the Lincoln Tunnel sign to the George Washington Bridge and you could be on the bus heading south on Route 17 while the stage coach is coming south on Forrest Avenue and making a right onto Route 4 west and heading out past Fair Lawn to pick up cookies at Nabisco.

Title: Re: Cartoon Drawing: Lincoln Tunnel, Hackensack, Passaic Sign
Post by: just watching on August 17, 2009, 07:03:08 PM

very interesting.  The implication is that Hackensack and Passaic are both modern places, and symbols of progress and technology.  What year is the drawing ?

Title: Re: Cartoon Drawing: Lincoln Tunnel, Hackensack, Passaic Sign
Post by: BLeafe on August 17, 2009, 09:48:00 PM

Quote from: just watching on August 17, 2009, 07:03:08 PM

very interesting.  The implication is that Hackensack and Passaic are both modern places, and symbols of progress and technology.  What year is the drawing ?

With that description, you'd have to go back 40 years for the answer (below).

Other than that, you'd have to ask the seller - the auction doesn't say.



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