Items

• Matchbook - Spirit of NJ Cruises

  Promotional matchbook from Spirit Cruises, which operates from Lincoln Harbor in Weehawken, offering dinnertime trips around New York Harbor.
• Matchbook - Dave Librenz Tavern

  Promotional matchbook from the Dave Librenz Tavern, located at 820 Park Avenue (Corner of 6th Street) in Weehawken. Sixth Street is an "old" street name for Weehawken. According to the 1910 Sanborn Insurance Map of Weehawken, this would correspond to the area of 48th and Park today.
• Matchbook - Christy's Bar

  Promotional matchbook from Christy's Bar, located at 40 Hackensack Avenue in Weehawken.
• Matchbook - Rendez View Restaurant

  Advertising matchbook from the Rendez View Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, located at the intersection of Boulevard East and Pershing Road (today's Charrito's Restaurant)
• Postcard: A Double-Triple Parachute Drop by the "Two Arthurs"

  Postcard promoting the New England Balloon & Airship Company of Weehawken, NJ and the aerial derring do of Arthur W Marsh and Arthur J Lapham. Postmarked 1911
• Two photographs of Van Clief's Hotel

  Two black and white photographs of Van Clief's Hotel, at the intersection of Boulevard East, Pershing Road and 47th Street. Note the trolley heading down Pershing to the West Shore Ferry Terminal and Clifton Hose Co. #3, located in what is now Old Glory Park. Note the patriotic bunting on the second photo, along with the name of the restaurant on the gable. This building, built circa 1895, has been a restaurant for over 100 years and is currently called Charittos, a Mexican restaurant.
• William Peter Brewery delivery wagon

  Sepia toned photograph of Wm. Peter Brew's Lager Beer delivery wagon. The brewery was located in Union Hill (today's Union City.)
• GP's Rib 'N Grill

  Undated photo of GP's Rib 'N Grill, located at Pershing Road and Boulevard East (today's Charrito's Restaurant). Built in 1895, but frequently remodeled, it has also been called Van Clief's Hotel, Farley's Hotel, Silver Fox, among other names. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Dance Advertisement - The Three Pals

  Flyer advertising a dance sponsored by The Three Pals of Weehawken (Henry Zeeb, Pat Lisa and Thomas Carroll), held at The New Cooperative Hall in Union City on January 28, 1933, with music by Denny Barry and his Village Boys. Tickets were 50 cents.
• Woodrow Wilson HS Senior Play 1939

  Program entitled: The Senior Class of the Woodrow Wilson High SchoolWeehawken, New Jersey Presents the annualSchool Play You Can't Take It With You Friday Evening, March 31, 19398:30 o'clock  
• Matchbook Covers - Mike's Tavern

  A set of five matchbook covers from Mike's Tavern, located at 1734 Willow Avenue. These matchbooks feature scenes of nature and children. M.F. Sitarski was the proprietor of this "always friendly" establishment, offering "Wines - Liquors - Beers" and "FINE FOOD." Michael Sitarski was born in Poland in 1898, and worked first as a longshoreman on the docks. According to the 1940 census, he was working and living over his tavern, with wife, Mary, brother Stanley, and children, John and Catherine.
• 1941 Toboggan Slide Badge

  Orange pin back button reading 'Weehawken 1941 School Toboggan Slide.' The first toboggan slide originally opened on December 24, 1938. Two tracks, each 600 feet long, were installed on a knoll just north of the Town Hall and stretched down and across the stadium field, newly completed in 1938.
• Advertisement for Cahill's Bar

  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)
• Matchbook - Shanghai Reds

  Matchbook from Shanghai Red's, which was located on Pier D-T, at the current site of the Chart House on the Weehawken waterfront. Shanghai Red's opened in 1984, one of the first restaurants on the rehabbed waterfront. Unfortunately, the restaurant went bankrupt in 1993 and was replaced in 1994 by the Chart House, which later suffered a fire and has now also closed. The Time Machine does not believe in curses, but... According to a review of the newly opened Chart House from 1994, "You never went to Shanghai Red's for the food. The salad greens were often brown, the steaks pre-cooked, the desserts desultory. But what a view!" Not a great epitaph, but there you go. Thanks to Susie Felber of the Weehawken Gazette for clearing up errors on this page - no Shanghai Red's may have burned a steak or two, but it never burned down.
• Matchbook - Eddies Tavern

  Matchbook from Eddies Tavern, located at 4926 Park Avenue Specializing in every kind of stomach bitters for every kind of stomach!
• Van Cliefs Point View Hotel, Clifton Park, Weehawken, N.J.

  Black and white photo postcard of the roadhouse at the intersection of Boulevard East and Pershing Road. The hotel and restaurant was built in 1895 by Simon Kelly, then Mayor of Weehawken. It was used as headquarters for the Hudson County Democratic Committee during his tenure as mayor. The building has remained a restaurant since its opening in 1895, though it has changed hands and names many times. Postmarked August 13, 1911 from Weehawken. John C. Voigt, Post Card Co., Jersey City, NJ. Printed in Germany.