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During my Hackensack search today, I came across an 1880s book titled, "Recollections of a New York Chief of Police". One of the chapter titles is "Capturing Hackensack", which sounds like something that took place during the Revolutionary War, but this happened during the Civil War - as I found out later after further research.

The auction explains nothing, but Google has it as a Google book.

You can read all about the woman who built an elegant mansion and was the talk of Hackensack (and had no first name in this book) here:

http://xrl.us/CapturingHackensack

Interesting stuff, but the time frames of these two posts don't jibe. They differ by more than two decades. 



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Can anyone tell me what town's fireworks these are? This shot is from 2 years ago, but every year they go off and I never see them listed.

They went off again two nights ago - Friday, July 2.

They weren't Maywood's, Saddle Brook's or Garret Mountain's - I saw all those.

Anyone here live in the high-rises? Who saw fireworks not too far away west of Hackensack on Friday night?



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This is a scan of a dusty print. Though I took the picture from my roof, this message was primarily over Manhattan. The building in the lower left corner is the apartment building at 417 Main. In the lower right corner, you can the Bank of America building at 210 Main St.

I had to use a fisheye lens to get the whole message in. I have no idea what the message was about, but I can make out the word "SALE" next to what looks like an 800 number in the lower left quadrant.

If the sun had been just outside the circle, the image might have looked like a diamond ring.



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From page A-2 of today's paper:

Description:

You are bidding on a scarce post card advertising post cards.  It is copyright 1906 by Dederick Bros. of Hackensack, N.J. and is unsent.  Back of the card is advertising their Conundrum line of post cards.  Neat card in excellent condition.



That's it? I wrote to the seller and asked him what was the answer to the question on the card, since it was right below the question, albeit it in an unreadable form in two dimensions (it looks a bit like a bar code).

He said he really didn't know. (!)

I asked him if he wondered why a company trying to sell a new kind of postcard would pose such a question on the card without providing the answer. What would be the point? Who would bother buying them with no answer on it? I even told him how to get the answer.

Nothing.

For those of you who don't feel like printing it out and holding the paper longitudinally to "shrink" the letters, I had that area of the card resized and the answer is at the very bottom of the third image.

Considering the lameness of the answer, it's pretty apparent why this type of card never caught on.


In the "Catalog of copyright entries, Part 4, Volume 2 By Library of Congress. Copyright Office", I found 10 questions that Dederick Bros. entered in 1907 (4th and 5th images)..............but without answers.



(I have a question.............why is the man's wedding band shown on his right hand?)



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Undated/unused.

Anyone have any idea what the shown apparatus is?



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..............and a bit of the convent.

This was taken from the roof of 50 Anderson St.



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