Hackensack, NJ Community Message Boards

I totally understand your deleting my post...it is instinctive to want to protect...but your analogy was a bit on the bizzare side, but no matter. We need both sides of a coin, do we not?

John, it was not my intention to belittle or insult you. If you don't get any intimidations, you become a slacker. Friends and family tend to tell you that you are great because love is blinding...you did really good in your initial audition, you went down hill from there...you should have stayed with the genre you are most comfortable with...and help you i would if i were in good old Hacky but i am in Fl....I can do Karen Carpenter note for note, i also do KD Lang, Annie Lennox and Bette Midler, so you get an idea what i sound like. I never pursued my dream....I was without a doubt the best singer in Hack back in the 60s and anyone that knows me would have to say it...I wish you all the luck in the world...AI is the fast way to be on top....getting into the business any other way is HARD. I think you need to practice phrazing and you need some vibrato....I did make a CD but getting it published or produced is HARD...and especially at my age. Let me leave you with this, always think you need more work, always think you aren't doing all you can be doing....the entertainment business is soooooo unpredictable and soooooo unjust...Clay Akins was cleary the better singer and lost to an obese guy that couldn't breathe to hold notes, he was so off key and had no tone what so ever. Fantasia most def was the worst singer they had on the show, did the worst rendition of Summertime i have ever heard and was never in the business, never paid any dues except to sing in the church choir...she was from Paterson....anyway, those 2 are proof of no talents....and i love when ppl say things that they have no idea what they are even talking about, such as Ruben is a great singer...maybe to the untrained ear. Well John, make sure the pool is filled before jumping in....much luck to you...i could go on and on but you probably hate me...LOL...no matter what, you did Hack proud!!!! 

I was born in 47...we lived on Moore St right beside Graysons furniture store. Right accross the street from me was Hoobens chauffer service and beside him was a beautiful park where i played...a few steps away was the back parking lot of A&P where i loved riding my bike. Around the corner from me was a bar called The 21 club. My house was a few steps from the Courthouse. My father worked for Ford Suburban...my Aunt worked for the phone co on State St. Main St was so wonderful up until the 80s and it went to the wayside and just crumbled. One of my fav stores was Ace 5 & 10. Hackensack had the best parades of any town. I saw Jerry Lewis when i was little........

On SpringValley Ave...are you a cop? or do you have a bro Charlie?

My grandfather was chief and on the first motorcycle squad...does anyone know the name, John Wonneburg?

I just viewed the great pics of Borgs woods and ponds...wow, it really brought back such great memories when my sister and 2 brothers explored and ice skated on every inch of it....our grandparents lived right accross Coles brook which we crossed to get to thier house on Fairmount Ave in Maywood.....The woods was such a fun place to go.....we were told that the owner was the owner of The Record and it was VERY private property and that we were not allowed there and that made it even more exciting! LOL....

I too lived 5 mins from the park and was there every day....i also went to Borg woods to ice skate, was great!

 Hi Kathi, it's me, the Bush supporter....lol.....the decorations were always so beautiful when i was a kid, probably the best of all towns.....Hack was such a great town.