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http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-HACKENSACK-Mutual-Savings-Mechanical-Bank-Key-/250721057717?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6023bbb5

Description:

This is a  Vintage Hackensack Mutual Savings New Jersey  Mechanical DIME REGISTER ALL METAL Bank that works well and opens with TWO separate keys. Bottom of bank was mutlated by someone to get the money out. They probably did not have a key.  Place a dime in top slot . Push Lever and amount changes. If you check one photo you will see it is $2.20. I placed 3 dimes inside(not with bank when sold) and the AMOUNT CHANGED TO $2.50. Needs a good cleaning. Either  KEY opens Bottom of bank by turning key halfway around.



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3272
 http://cgi.ebay.com/VTG-RWP-PLATE-81-BERGEN-COUNTY-COURTHOUSE-NEW-JERSEY-/230545961667?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ad9c32c3

Description:

VINTAGE RWP PLATE #81



I don't know what "RWP" is, but I think the "P" stands for "pewter".



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Hackensack History / Re: Hendrix at George's Club 20 (Hackensack)
« on: November 02, 2010, 11:13:21 AM »
I had known for a while that Jimi Hendrix had played in Hackensack but I was never sure where.

Here's something I just found out in The Record today: before he played in Hackensack, Jimi lived in Englewood for two years with the Isley Brothers family.


http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/celebrities/106500483_Isley_brother_reflects_on_Jimi_Hendrix_s_Englewood_days.html?page=all



Isley brother reflects on Jimi Hendrix's Englewood days

Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Last updated: Tuesday November 2, 2010, 8:57 AM
BY JIM BECKERMAN
The Record
STAFF WRITER

WHO: Ernie Isley, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang, Living Colour, Billy Cox, Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Eric Johnson.

WHAT: The Experience Hendrix Tour.

WHEN: 8 p.m. Wednesday.

WHERE: Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts, 100 South St., Morristown; 973-539-8008 or mayoarts.org.

HOW MUCH: $67 to $125.


Everyone knows the Jimi Hendrix who reinvented the electric guitar with his screaming, howling, mind-bending solos.

But only Ernie Isley knows the Jimi Hendrix who used to play the "Three Stooges" theme while everyone in their house in Englewood broke up.

"Everybody would just start laughing," recalls Isley, then an 11-year-old youngster born into the famous Isley Brothers ("Twist & Shout," "Shout") musical dynasty.

Between 1963 and 1965, Hendrix was not only the Isley Brothers' guitarist, he also lived in the back room of the Bergen County house that Ernie shared with his mom, his older brother O'Kelly and younger brother Marvin (both now deceased).

When 10-year-old brother Marvin wanted a new Pez dispenser for his collection, Jimi went to the store with him. When the family gathered at the TV to watch the Beatles on the historic Feb. 9, 1964, "Ed Sullivan Show," Jimi was in the living room with them. "Marvin was sitting on one side of him, and I was sitting on the opposite side," Isley recalls.

Guitarist Isley, a 1992 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, will channel those memories, as well as some great music, when he appears with an all-star musical lineup that includes Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang, Living Colour, Billy Cox and Steve Vai in the Experience Hendrix tour, coming to the Community Theatre in Morristown on Wednesday.

"It's kind of like I get to be 11 years old again," Isley says. "The thing about Jimi Hendrix is that the majority of people just automatically go to the icon. And he was not that. He became that. He was a person."

Long before "Purple Haze," "All Along the Watchtower" and "The Wind Cries Mary," there was already a buzz about Jimi Hendrix. In spring 1963, the Isley Brothers had gone to the Village to track down an amazing guitarist they'd heard about. According to Ernie Isley, the conversation went down something like this:

O'Kelly: You got this reputation. Play something for me.

Hendrix: I can't.

O'Kelly: Why not?

Hendrix: Because I pawned my guitar. It's in the pawn shop.

(Later, after getting the guitar at the pawn shop.)

O'Kelly: Play something for me.

Hendrix: I can't.

O'Kelly: Why not?

Hendrix: I don't have any strings on my guitar.

When Hendrix eventually did play a solo, the brothers hired him on the spot. Then it was:

O'Kelly: We got rehearsals in New Jersey the day after tomorrow.

Hendrix: I can't make rehearsals in New Jersey.

O'Kelly: Why not?

Hendrix: I don't have a place to stay.

That's how Hendrix came to live with the Isleys during two formative years in which he honed a style that, a few years later, was to change the face of rock-and-roll. "Before he came to the house for the first time, Kelly got him a brand-new guitar," Isley says. "We went to Manny's [the New York music store] and got a brand-new white Strat [Stratocaster] at his request. His very first one."

That guitar, Isley recalls, was never very far from Jimi. "It was always within arm's reach," Isley said. "He would drink orange juice and play guitar."

Hendrix, then about 21, became an older brother to the two young Isleys. They would watch TV together: "Super Chicken," "Beany and Cecil," "Bonanza," "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom."

But always, Hendrix was practicing, practicing. "We had a full-length mirror near the front door of the house, and he would be playing the guitar and looking at himself in the mirror to see how he looked," Isley says. "He would flip it behind his back, or under his leg. You never saw anybody interact with an instrument like that. Like it was a yo-yo."

By the time Hendrix left the Isleys in 1965, he was already a breakout star. And by the time he stopped back in Englewood for a visit, arriving from England and on his way to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, he had morphed into Jimi Hendrix, rock god.

"Marvin looked at him and said, 'Is that Jimi?' " Isley recalls. "Cause he had this rainbow of colors on him. Hat, bracelets, rings on every finger, belt, sash, velvet bell-bottom pants. This was before Carnaby Street and psychedelia had hit the United States. When he walked down the hallway, he [was] like [movie gunslinger] Shane."

Like all the artists in the "Experience" show, touring regularly since 1995, Isley has been influenced by Hendrix.

He transformed the electric guitar from a mere amplified instrument into a whole new medium of expression, Isley says — by producing sounds that no one had heard before.

"If he was the president, he'd be George Washington," Isley says. "He'd always be first."



E-mail: beckerman@northjersey.com



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Hackensack Discussion / Check THIS out
« on: November 02, 2010, 01:25:12 AM »
<a href="http://img215.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Mburningnycbldgso" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://img215.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Mburningnycbldgso</a>



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3275
http://cgi.ebay.com/1926-Bergen-County-Passaic-High-School-Sports-Guide-/360315199691?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item53e475a0cb

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A Look at the Best in North Jersey Sports Teams--1925-26 "High School Sports Review," a review of winning sports teams, male and female, in Bergen and Passaic Counties, NJ (New Jersey).  States that it was the first time published--not sure if there was a second year.  Softcover, 87 pages.  Published by New Jersey Scholastic Publishing Company.  Great 1920s football scene on the front cover.

Colorful, cut-to-the-chase writing style: "During the 1925-26 seasons Tenafly High School increased its athletic standing nearly 100%.  No longer is this school ridiculed by its opponents."

Lots of text, lots of (full-page) photos of winning teams.  Photos: Ridgefield Park Men's Basketball Team (State Champs, Class B); Bogota Men's Basketball Team (BCL Section B Champs); Hackensack Men's Basketball Team ("Passaic's Nemesis"); Park Ridge Women's Basketball Team; Hackensack 1926 Men's Basketball Team; Bogota Baseball Team (Bergen County League Champs); Ridgewood Men's Basketball; Maureen Orcutt, "champion girl golfer" from Haworth who played for Englewood High School; the "Wonder Team" of Passaic (men's basketball, 1920s) and Coach Ernest Blood; Leonia Baseball and Basketball Teams; Tenafly undefeated women's basketball team; head shots of various county coaches; Rutherford Men's Basketball; Passaic Men's Basketball (North Jersey League Champs); Englewood Baseball and Basketball ("best in five year"); Hasbrouck Heights Men's Basketball; Bogota women's basketball team (Section B Champs); "Dumont's Lone Champion Team," which was women's basketball; Park Ridge Men's Basketball Team, runner-up in the BCL; St. Cecilias of Englewood Men's Basketball.

Articles: The Year in Football (nearly every team in the Northern Jersey League mentioned in some way with photos of team captains from Englewood, Rutherford, Passaic, Ridgefield Park, and Ridgewood--All Star Teams also mentioned); The Need for Capable Basketball Officials (season was proclaimed a "nightmare" because cheaper officials were hired); How Hackensack Broke Passaic's Winning Streak (the 1924-25 Hackensack team broke Wonder Team Passaic's 159 game winning streak); Progress of the Bergen County Interscholastic League; "Is O'Shea Through," a story about the great Hackensack pitcher Thomas "Porky" O'Shea, who tried and failed to make it with the Boston Braves; Leonia track stars Elizabeth Stine and Maybelle Gilliland, who went on to gain national prominence (no photo); Passaic and its Cross- Country Team; Jersey's Contribution to College Teams (Passaic's Johnny Roosma at West Point); Fritz Knothe of Passaic, article and photo; Clifton and its "Wonder" Baseball Teams; The Brilliance of Passaic's Track Team; Baseball in the Bergen County League (Garfield and Bogota doing well); rise of Garfield in field of athletics; Rutherford vs. Passaic for football title.

Also: listings of all-star football teams, with team records, standings and rankings; lots of local ads; a few random poems.  It's quite a book.

It's the content that's terrific--not so much how the book looks.  Black cardboard cover has tears on the front and spine (back actually looks pretty good).  Chunk of top right corner missing on front cover, small piece of bottom right missing.  Lots of wrinkles, creases, and crinkles.  Owner's name almost invisibly written on the front.  Stapled binding is holding (which is a big help).  There's a dark "butterfly" type stain on the bottom inside corner throughout the book--does not affect text or photos, though.  A couple of other small random stains here and there.




Interesting picture of future womens' golf champ, Maureen Orcutt, who played for Englewood high school.

There are mentions of Hackensack players and teams and a photo of one Hackensack team shown as "Passaic's Nemesis".



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3279
http://cgi.ebay.com/Smiling-Baby-Carriage-Edgar-A-Poe-Hackensack-NJ-/360313099904?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item53e4559680


Description:

Edgar A. Poe Studio, 102 Main St., Hackensack New Jersey (Bergen County).  Have no idea why it was called "Edgar A. Poe" Studio, except maybe the photographer was a fan... There's an internet reference to the photographer being Richard Pye, an immigrant from England.

Photograph itself measures about 3 1/2" by 2 1/4", with board measures 5 1/2" by 3 1/2".  Excellent condition, very crisp.  Pencil writing on the back reads "10 months old."




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Hackensack Discussion / USS Ling is a Soviet sub in film shoot
« on: October 25, 2010, 07:43:38 PM »
USS Ling is setting for movie about doomed Soviet sub

Sunday, October 24, 2010
Last updated: Sunday October 24, 2010, 11:43 PM
BY EVONNE COUTROS
The Record
Staff Writer

HACKENSACK — It was “lights, camera, action!” as cast and crew of a Russian-language movie styled on “Taxi Driver” boarded the World War II-era submarine USS Ling this weekend to shoot flashback scenes about a real Soviet sub that sank off Hawaii 42 years ago.

The independent film “Katya,” about a middle-aged cab driver and former Soviet submarine navigator who meets a young Russian prostitute, is inspired by the Cold War sinking of the Soviet K-129 diesel-electric powered submarine on March 8, 1968 northwest of Oahu. Mystery still surrounds the demise of the sub, said to carry nuclear warheads.

“The Soviet submarine sank in the middle of the Pacific Ocean very close to Hawaii where it shouldn’t have been,” said filmmaker Mako Kamitsuna, 42, who wrote the 15-minute-long “Katya” as an original feature a few years ago. Kamitsuna managed to enlist actress Chulpan Khamatova — described by one of the film’s producers as the Angelina Jolie of Russia — for the title role of Katya.

“Something about the K-129 incident really captured my imagination,” said Kamitsuna, who was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, the site of the drop of the first atomic bomb in 1945.

The daughter of an physician, Kamitsuna graduated Beverly Hills High School in California and earned a degree in philosophy from Columbia University in 1992. She attended the New York University Graduate Film program before deciding to make “Katya” with a budget of $60,000 funded through private equity. The cast of 30 are mostly Russian Americans – the dialogue is entirely in Russian with English subtitles – and the plan is to market it in Russia with hopes of going global.

The film is likened by Kamitsuna to the 1976 film “Taxi Driver,” directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro and a teenaged Jodie Foster.

”Through years of research, I’ve been exposed to enough clues that suggest that the K-129 had in fact attempted to launch one of the three nuclear warheads against Hawaii,” Kamitsuna wrote on a website promoting the film. “I was compelled to recreate the incident to highlight not so much the political implication but the very meaning of the deaths of ninety-eight men aboard — what each and every loss meant to their loved ones left behind, and to the generations to come.”

Filming aboard the USS Ling, which is on display at the New Jersey Naval Museum at Borg Park on River Street, was a local decision, Kamitsuna said.

“On our way to the city, we always pass it,” she said of drive-bys with her husband Roman Flom, whose parents live in Bergenfield.

Actor Vitaliy Shtabnoy, 23, of Hillsboro, is one of the leads, playing a Russian submariner, Mikhail (Katya’s father), aboard the ill-fated vessel, which was part of the Soviet Pacific Fleet.

Shtabnoy, who earned an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University in New Brunswick before turning to acting, lived in St. Petersburg with his parents until 1997.

“I came over when I was 10,” he said. “As an actor, this opens a new door for me … I have a different opportunity that other actors may not have because they don’t speak Russian.”

Kamitsuna hopes the small film — which wraps up todayOctober 25  with scenes shot in Brooklyn — will get big notices at film festivals worldwide.

“This story has never been embraced, and I feel with the right spirit and attitude, it will speak to interested Russian people,” she said. “I’d like the message to be personal. My intention is that this film will be a bridge for discourse between two generations.”

E-mail: coutros@northjersey.com

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Food channel judges iconic North Jersey slider joints

Monday, October 25, 2010
Last updated: Monday October 25, 2010, 9:18 AM
BY ELISA UNG
The Record
STAFF WRITER

FOOD FEUDS
10 p.m. Thursday, Food Network

When it comes to sliders, is the king really White Manna or White Mana?






Food Network's new show "Food Feuds" hits North Jersey in the next few weeks, aiming to settle culinary rivalries new and old. On Nov. 4, it's a slider competition: Hackensack's White Manna vs. Jersey City's White Mana.

Whose cuisine will reign supreme? Oops, wrong show. But "Food Feuds"' host and final judge is an Iron Chef, Cleveland-based Michael Symon, who even roped his Paramus-raised college roommate into helping pick the show's competitors.

"I've always had a tremendous passion for joints – places that have been around forever, that become known for one thing," Symon says. "White Manna is the perfect example. That's a slice of American history. What we wanted to do was go into these places and show how great these places were, and the history behind them, and the passion that goes into them."

Symon spent some time with each competitor, helping make their specialty, before ultimately deciding the winner based on criteria such as taste, history and technique. At the end of each episode, he hands down a final verdict.

"The White Mannas were fantastic," he says. "The history was great; the guys who owned the places were hysterical. We were sitting in these places in the middle of the day and selling hundreds and hundreds of sliders."

As the story goes, Jersey City's White Mana was the first, having been built for the 1939 World's Fair as the "diner of the future." It was owned by the same owner as the Hackensack location, but both spots were eventually sold to different people and are no longer affiliated. Both were named White Manna, though the Jersey City location lost an "n" through a service error and the new name stuck.

The Food Network shooting "was a lot of fun," says Ronny Cohen, owner of the White Manna in Hackensack, who wouldn't reveal who was announced victor during a finale shot in Liberty State Park. He got to try the White Mana burgers. "They're OK, but they're not even close to the one we have," he says.

The sliders at Hackensack's White Manna — the ones favored by many foodies — feature potato rolls, sliced onions and ground beef that's only 10 percent fat; the meat gets its moisture from steaming on the grill. White Mana's sliders, which also have their loyalists, feature regular white rolls and chopped onions. (Mario Costa, the owner of White Mana, did not return phone calls.)


E-mail: ung@northjersey.comBlog: northjersey.com/foodblog



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3282
http://cgi.ebay.com/PHOTOGRAPH-SPANISH-AMERICAN-Soldier-IDENTIFIED-c1898-/250713330636?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a5fadd3cc


Description:

Offered for sale is a very nice full length portrait of Corporal. J.A. Vaukeler. Inscribed on the reverse as follows... Corp J.A. Vaukeler Taken by G.A. Vaukler in coming home from war with Spain Sept. 24 1898. Hackensack, N.J. Photo alone measures 3 3/8" square. Matte border has missing corners, can be re-matted over existing matte, saving the description on the reverse. Photo in very good condition.



I think the seller has managed to spell the name two different ways - both incorrectly.



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3283
http://cgi.ebay.com/Packard-Bamberger-whiskey-bottle-/160495607469?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255e489ead


Description:

At least 50 years old because that is when the store went out of business .

A 1 quart whiskey bottle


Front Label states

Packard- Bamberger

Special Reserve

"The Taste Tells The Story" Blended Whiskey

Bottled Expressly for Packard-Bamberger & Co., INC

Hackensack, NJ



Rear Label gives all info on  the Distiller. - P.B.Distilling , Stamford, CT

1.5 lb





I don't know where the seller got his information from, but Packard's didn't go out of business over 50 years ago. He's more than doubled the time.



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http://cgi.ebay.com/World-War-New-Testament-Woodrow-Wilson-Intro-Holman-/320605144640?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item4aa58e4640

http://cgi.ebay.com/Manlius-New-York-Leaflet-Christ-Church-History-1947-/390253492977?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5adcebbaf1

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wabash-Railway-Receivership-Postcard-1937-Wall-Street-/390253383735?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5adcea1037


Descriptions:

1. Measuring about 2-3/4" x 4-1/2", this pocket-sized leather-bound book contains the New Testament (421 pages) and Psalms (109 pages). It is published in Philadelphia by A. J. Holman Co., and is stated to be a "Holman Edition." It is the King James version. Although it is undated, it contains a single-page message from President Woodrow Wilson that is dated July 23, 1917, and there is a full page ink presentation on the front fly leaf dated 1918. The full text of the inscription is "Hackensack, New Jersey. Hiram W. Phillips, August 16, 1918, from Mother." These pocket Bibles were frequently given to soldiers heading out to war, and - although we have no precise provenance - we suspect that this was the case with this one.

It has a hinge crack at the front fly leaf, but the binding is otherwise still nice and tight. There is also some typical light surface and edge wear on the cover.


2. Measuring 6" x 8-1/2", and four pages long, the item in the first picture below is a leaflet by Elmer Clemons giving a brief history of Christ Church, Manlius, supposedly the oldest church in Onondaga County, New York. The picture on the front is a reproduction of a circa 1840 sketch of the church by local artist Augustus Rockwell.

Also included are the items in the second picturee, namely:

- The mailing envelope, postmarked De Witt, 1947, from E. E. Clemons to Hiram W. Phillips, in Hackensack, New Jersey.

- A two page letter from E. E. Clemons to Mr. Phillips regarding research into the genealogical history of the Phillips and Rockwell families. It is on the letterhead of the Onondaga Historical Society, of Syracuse.

- A fragment of a newspaper article regarding the Rockwell family.


3. Measuring 5-1/2" x 3-1/4", this item is a pre-printed postcard giving notice to certain Wabash Railway Company mortgage bond hold holders. The company was in receivership at the time. It is addressed to Nettie Phillips, of Hackensack, New Jersey, and has a Wall Street Station postmark dated July 21, 1937. I've taken close-up pictures of both sides so you can read them.




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