The Recollections of Nat Bodian
Nat Bodian's memories (including new ones)
have been moved to
this site.
12/28/2004
Remembering Newarkers from Golden Age of the American-Jewish Boxer
11/24/2004
Looking Back at Newark
Origins of World-Famous M&M Chocolates
11/18/2004
An Australian's
1915 Report of a Celebration in Downtown Newark
9/26/2004
Fond
Recollections of Former Millman Patrons
9/24/2004
Remembering
Millman's on Meeker Avenue: Home of the Famous Foot-Long Hot Dog
8/10/2004
Ted Fiorito: The Newark Son of Italian Immigrants who Became One of
Greats of American Music
8/05/2004
Newark's Role in Rock
& Roll
7/18/2004
Remembering Some
Old Newark Related Ads, Slogans and Trademarks
Newark's 3rd Ward Yiddish Theatre:
A Replica of NYC's Second Avenue
How a Former Star-Eagle Reporter Described the 1930s at
the Paper
6/13/2004
Before Radio -- Newark's Unique 1911-1912 Telephone
Newspaper
6/11/2004
Snippets of My
Newark-Related WWII Memories as Posted on OldNewark.com
5/29/2004
The
Most-Enduring Mom 'n Pop Business in the Old Third Ward: Their Story
5/25/2004
Fabulous Tavern
Restaurant Coconut Cream Pie Recipe Revealed at Last!
5/04/2004
The Landsmanshaftn of Newark
4/08/2004
Third Ward's Ideal Vegetarian Restaurant in 1930s and 1940s
Recalling Two Active in the Third Ward Who Later Became 'Gods' in
Their Art
3/03/2004
Are Old Newark
Memories US History? Some High School Juniors said 'Yes'
3/02/2004
Newark's Colorful
Depression-Era Jewish Mayor: "Champion of the City"
2/12/2004
Looking Back at the
Newark of 1835-36 and a Glimpse of Some of Its Townsmen
1/30/2004
Rise and Fall
of Newark Underworld Character During Longy Zwillman Era
1/21/2004
Syd's Hot Dogs:
History of a Weequahic Landmark
1/20/2004
My Links to Newark
Airport Before and During World War II
01/09/2004
News-Reporting from the Field by Telegraph in Pre-World War II
01/08/2004
Life Inside the
Newark Evening News as Recalled by William Gordon
12/02/2003
Recalling a 1938
Telegram About Boat Races on Weequahic Park Lake
Philip Roth --
Literary Superstar
Newark's Weequahic Section Hero
11/22/2003
Newark: Cradle of
Cycling in the Sport's Golden Age
11/13/2003
1942 Armistice
Day Remembrance with Unforeseen 2003 Veterans Day Wind-Up
11/09/2003
400th Memory posted on Old Newark
Harlem
Globetrotters Newark Visits: Jewish Player was Keenest Opponent
10/20/2003
Newark's Tallest Building: Evolution -
Deterioration - Rebirth
10/09/2003
Bambergers in
1929:
What Went On Inside the Store
9/09/2003
The Legendary
Philanthropies of Newark's Louis Bamberger
9/08/2003
Donation of Trees to
Park That Became a Newark Historic Site
8/25/2003
The Newark Scenic
Postcard Man and His Two Sons: Their Story
8/18/2003
Colorful History
of Newark's Street Trolley Cars: From Birth to Death
8/07/2003
Eyewitness
Description of an 1880s Boxing Match in Newark
Overseas
Newark Newspaper that Captured the 'Wartime Flavor' of Downtown Newark
8/03/2003
When the Nazis
Came to Newark -- Details Now Unveiled
7/06/2003
Newark the
Beautiful:
Description in America's First Geography in 1820's
The Shvitz:
The Three Third Ward Bath Houses that Served Newark's Jewish Community in the
1920s/1930s
6/25/2003
Presidents
that have Visited Newark
6/01/2003
The Untermanns:
Husband and Wife Judges Who Left Their
Mark on Newark
5/18/2003
The YM-YWHA
Movement in Newark From 1877 Birth to End in 1969
5/5/2003
A Recollection of
Newark of 1939 and After the Riots
Looking Back
at Newark During Prohibition Era
4/9/2003
How Newark Pictured
Itself on 100th Birthday as City
3/23/2003
Kid from Roseville
Avenue:
Baseball's Brainiest Player
...and Top World War II Spy
3/17/2003
Third Ward's
Most Newsworthy Event:
A Crime-Boss Funeral
2/18/2003
The St.
Barnabas Hospital Was on Montgomery Street
2/11/2003
"Heaven" Comes to a Corner of Newark's Old Third Ward
2/1/2003
Untold Story of My New Dreamland Roller Skates
During World War II
12/31/2002
A Legacy of Old Jewish Newark:
The Once-Famous "Watson Bagel"
12/24/2002
Going to a North
Newark College for $5 a Credit
12/23/2002
The
Yiddish-English Weekly Paper Published in Newark's Third Ward
12/15/2002
Third Ward
Businessman's Life is Told in Published Memoir to Grandchildren
12/05/2002
Looking Back
at Life at Monmouth Street School in the 1920's/1930's
11/24/2002
Looking Back at
The Tavern:
A Great Newark Restaurant
11/17/2002
1940's Memories of
the New Dreamland Arena Roller Rink
11/11/2002
The First Time a
"George Bush" Came to Newark
10/30/2002
A
Look Back at Newark's Most Bizarre Sports Event -- and the Man Behind It
10/26/2002
Remembering
Newark's Only Jockey: Known as "Buddy"
10/24/2002
Customer
Recollections of The Tavern's Coconut Cream Pie
10/11/2002
Recalling
Third Ward Family Name Changes in the 1920s & 1930s
Recalling
Set-Up Day When the Circus Came to Newark
9/26/2002
The
Scharys of Schary Manor -- Caterers for Special Occasions
9/19/2002
Recalling
Parades that Started at Lincoln Park
9/18/2002
The Once Great Newark Evening News: A Remembrance & Obituary
9/12/2002
Recalling
the Third Ward's Three Movie Houses, and Its Live Yiddish Theatre
9/6/2002
Recalling a Monmouth St. School Student Who Made it Big in The Big
Apple
8/28/2002
Recalling
Newark News Writer Howard Garis and His Rabbit
8/26/2002
Recalling
Third Ward Synagogues Designated as Historic Places
8/25/2002
How
a Bergen St. Booklender's Son Changed the Look of Library Books
Explaining
the GI Bill to Newark's WWII Veterans
Recalling
the Colorful History of a Newark VFW Post Established in 1907
7/5/2002
Recalling a Newark Son Who Rose to Greatness....and His Father
Recalling
an Earlier Beth Israel Hospital
5/20/2202
Books About the Third Ward Written by Former Neighborhood Dwellers
Remembering
The Newark Sunday Call
4/14/2002
Burlesque
at the
Empire Theatre
4/7/2002
The Weequahic Diner: A Newark Landmark & Tradition
3/24/2002
A 1940 Night in the Essex County Courthouse/Hall of Records
3/21/2002
Recalls Laurel Garden
3/16/2002
Recalls Teenage Rise as Star-Ledger Sports Reporter
Story Behind an Odd WW2 Newark Newspaper
3/3/2002
The Bamberger's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Four Corners
Traffic Tower
2/18/2002
The "Big 3" Department Stores: Their Life and Times
The Hebrew Orphanage & Sheltering Home in the Late 1940s
2/12/2002
Remembering the Newsreel Theatre
2/11/2002
Recalling the Mosque Theatre & Building
2/4/2002
Remembers Late 1920s Business Life in the Third Ward
1/29/2002
Childhood Penny Candy Decisions
1/25/2002
Recalling Street Vendors
in the 1920s
1/14/2002
Recalling the
Early Days of Broadcast Radio in Newark
1/7/2002
Talks with Eddie Steinberg,
theatre owner/operator, between 1938 and 1968
7/10/2001
Remembers Housecraft Inc.
6/28/2001
Revisiting the Old High Street "Y"
6/20/2001
Life on Prince Street
in the 20's & 30's
6/14/2001
Longy Zwillman
(Third Ward
Gangster)
6/11/2001
Weequahic Park as a Sports Site
5/24/2001
Montgomery Street
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