I grew up in Montclair in the sixties, and just found a slightly different copy of this postcard at a yard sale in my little village in the Catskill Mountains. Mine was mailed in August of 1916.
The online collection of the Montclair Public Library has a a copy of this postcard. It’s so badly scanned that I can’t tell if it it is the same copy as the one linked above, but I think it is the same. They give the address as being 634 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair. That puts it at the southeast corner of the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue and Valley Road. I think there may still be a parking lot there, or at least was until fairly recently.
What a wonderful reminiscence, Jay! You should send a copy of it to the Montclair Public Library to go with the postcard there, and to the Montclair Historical Society too.
Cohen’s finally closed a couple of years ago, I think. In an era of corner stores that are corporate clones, up until the end it was still the way it had been for decades.
I grew up in Montclair in the sixties, and just found a slightly different copy of this postcard at a yard sale in my little village in the Catskill Mountains. Mine was mailed in August of 1916.
The online collection of the Montclair Public Library has a a copy of this postcard. It’s so badly scanned that I can’t tell if it it is the same copy as the one linked above, but I think it is the same. They give the address as being 634 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair. That puts it at the southeast corner of the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue and Valley Road. I think there may still be a parking lot there, or at least was until fairly recently.
What a wonderful reminiscence, Jay! You should send a copy of it to the Montclair Public Library to go with the postcard there, and to the Montclair Historical Society too.
Cohen’s finally closed a couple of years ago, I think. In an era of corner stores that are corporate clones, up until the end it was still the way it had been for decades.