Advertisement for Cahill's Bar
Item
- Title
- Advertisement for Cahill's Bar
- Description
- This framed advertisement for Cahill's Bar at 1831-33 Willow Avenue features a beyootiful colored photo of a country road which looks like it is nowhere near Weehawken. It makes up for this by providing a useful thermometer. We received this information from Mike Cahill... "I was born in Weehawken in 1945 and my family lived above Cahill's Bar until I was about 5 years old. The bar was owned by my great uncle, 'Mickey' Cahill. He lived in Weehawken on Hudson Place I believe. He was my father's uncle and my grandfather (Matthew Cahill) worked as the bartender. My meager recollection is that the establishment got plenty of business from the longshoremen who worked the piers on the river and the locals from the Shades. I do not remember much about the physical setup other than there being the standard bar and brass foot-rail. My father (Robert M. Cahill) later went on to become the Fire Chief in the mid-1960's." Time Machine user Jim Chieco sent this in... "As a kid I spent a lot of time drinking soda's in Cahill's Bar. My close friend Ray Huelbig's Dad Mickey Huelbig (Both members of the Weehawken HS Athletic Hall of Fame) was a Bartender there for a number of years and Ray and I used to play a lot of basketball in the Lincoln School Yard and then go to the bar to cool down. They had a great jukebox and I remember Bobby Darin's Mack The Knife being played all the time. (Bobby Darin was the big star of the 1959 Weehawken Centennial celebration at the show at Weehawken Stadium at the end of the week's celebration)
- Subject
- WHC203
- Type
- OT
- Identifier
- WHC203
- Coverage
- 1831 Willow Avenue,Weehawken, NJ [40.7594486,-74.0279608]
- Tag
- Business
- Rights
- This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the Weehawken Historical Commission.
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