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While I was taking pictures, I was also doing a time-lapse video. When you see a certain type of clouding, there's usually a good chance that some secondary color will pop up after the sun sets - sometimes spectacularly. On rare occasions, tertiary color is a possibility.

Accurate color is not the strong point of this old camcorder - the yellow and red are a bit weak and the dark gray clouds came out blue. Shooting video of that tape off the TV screen with my cellphone doesn't help, but you get the idea that it was kinda cool-looking.

The recording was set for 1 second every 30 seconds, so this 30-second video covers 15 minutes of real time.


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..........and a puddle on my roof.

Taken an hour ago with my cellphone camera.

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I'm not sure that these are priests (friars? brothers?) and the postmark is the only real Hackensack connection here, but I think any Holy Trinity School alum would smile at the thought some of the old priests schlepping their nets down to the Hackensack River for no-meat-on-Fridays dinner (maybe that's why "Thursday" is crossed out).



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Thank you!

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Description:

You are bidding on a program and two tickets for the presentation of the play, "Stage Door" given in 1940 by the student nurses of  the Hackensack Hospital.  The play was held at the High School Auditorium of Hackensack High School.  The program and the two tickets are in excellent condition.



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Description:

The school system of Bergen County, New Jersey, is the common theme of this two-item lot from 1901.

The first item is a "County Grammar School Diploma" issued in 1901 to Hiram W. Phillips by the State of New Jersey Department of Public Instruction. (I believe "Grammar School" back then was synonymous with "High School" today.) It is signed by Bergen County Superintendent John Terhune and school Principal James E. Demarest. The green seal at the lower left corner says "The Board of Education of the Township of New Barbadoes in the County of Bergen, New Jersey." New Barbadoes later became Hackensack. The certificate measures about 17" x 14" and, as you can see, it has multiple vertical fold lines from being squeezed while rolled up.

Second, measuring about 6" x 8", and 16 pages long, is a booklet titled "Superintendent's Annual Circular of Greeting to the Grammar School Graduates of Bergen County, New Jersey, Class of 1901." The chief article, titled "Work Wins", is a message from John Terhune, and the booklet also contains some advertising, humor and two pages of pictures of military alumni of Hackensack High School. Four of the five alumni shown on the "US Navy" page are well known in their own right, and here's what we can tell you about them:

- Ellsworth P. Bertholf took part in the Alaska Overland Expedition in 1897, and later became Captain-Commandant of the United States Coast Guard.

- Albert A. Ackerman took part in the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic in 1884 on board the USS Alert.

- Wallace Bertholf (Ellsworth's brother) was cited for his bravery in fighting the fire that follwed the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He also won the Navy Cross in World War I for his bravery as commanding officer of the USS Harrisburg.

- Warren J. Terhune fought in the Spanish-American War and took part in quelling an uprising in Nicaragua in 1912. He later became Governor of American Samoa, but his rule was controversial and unpopular, and he committed suicide in 1920 while in office.

Ackerman and the two Betholfs are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.



NOTE: I'm guessing this might be the same Hiram Phillips as the one in the "1940-49 tax bills for Hiram Phillips' 2 Hackensack homes" topic.



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I didn't want to walk to the courthouse and back (I'd miss the Jets game at 1pm). The "pre-parade prep" is very nearby (Sears parking lot) and early, and this staging area in and around the lot is much more interesting.

It's kind of a madhouse as large groups of kids, bands, dancers, and vehicles are all mixed up while primping and practicing. Instead of trying to get shots of them from a spot along the parade route from the same angle and with the same background, I can get poses, candids, and basically anything I want.

I can also find unusual things that aren't seen in the parade, such as a truck that was packed with big speakers pumping out LOUD music while parked next to a Port-a-John that had people on line waiting to use it. It's like music was being provided as entertainment for the people who were waiting to use the facilities.

It was a Port-a-Party!


I have 15 pictures and 2 videos to show, so I'll have to make 2 posts.

This post starts out with a sign regarding the parking on Main St over the 2 days of the Festival and Parade:







This shows empty Main St from Anderson to Passaic Streets before the parade:







OK - it wasn't COMPLETELY empty. Gotta have SOME police presence, right?







This is Main St looking south from Passaic St:








On the way back from Passaic St, I saw these two carts that appeared to be racing, so I held out my cellcam to get a picture. The driver of the near cart must have thought I was flagging him down because he pulled right over and asked if I wanted one of the handful of little US flags he had. I guess the carts were distributing them to the people along the parade route:







By the staging area, the first thing I saw were the 3 mounted cops on horses, who appeared to be protecting Holy Trinity School from something:







Continuing north, I saw the trolley and the HHS football team:










A little further north was this DPW truck, which should look like this all the time (and I'm not even Italian):







I headed back toward the Sears lot and got a picture of these bikes and then did some non-alcoholic lot shots and videos, which you can see in the next post:






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