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I have been a Jersey Boy for 50+ years. My early childhood had my parents and I visit Lavallette N.J. every year for two weeks during the summer for some 18 years.  Seaside Heights was my favorite hangout when I  grew older.  Just a long walk along the beach at evening to check out the night time action.  These are some old postcards of NJ, the Jersey Shore and I'll get to post some photos I took when visiting.  Somewhere in the late '80s I tool a trip to Asbury Park and photographed the last of the buildings.  I'll hunt them down. The main pier was still open and I did shoot a number of shots inside the buildings.

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Atlantic City - Postcards	Jersey Shore - Ocean City, Asbury Park, Wild Wood - Postcards
New Jersey Towns - Postcards	Point Pleasant - Historical Postcards
Delaware Water Gap	Lakewood - Historical Postcards
High Bridge / Clinton and surrounding towns Postcards Click link for full size images
Lake Solitude Dam - 1924 Lake Solitude Dam frozen Jan 2017	High Bridge Taylor's Dam - 1910
High Bridge Reformed Church - 1915 Church St.	River Road - 1920s
High Bridge, NJ Lake Solitude	High Bridge, NJ Mountain Falls I have no idea where this is except it must be by River Road. The only place where it's that steep.
High Bridge, NJ Foundry Bridge	High Bridge The Arches - 1941
High Bridge - Bird's Eye View	High Bridge - Church St.
Bloomsbury Foot Bridge	Main Street, High Bridge - 1950s
If you are wondering what the concrete abutment just north of the edge of Hampton (next to the Hick's Paving).  It is a long ago train bridge !  Only the southbound side remains.  Not sure why they would only leave that part.  Took me an hour to figure it out (with help from the wife).  See this page for photo posted at Bridgehunters.com http://bridgehunter.com/nj/hunterdon/bh57435/	.
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The High Bridge High School - 1910 now the Middle School	Annandale NJ post cards Massive collection of Clinton area postcards

CLINTON, NJ
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Clinton House - 1903?	Clinton House - 1920s
Old Red Mill, Clinton (no date, but 1900's)	.
Sunset Motel - Rt. 69 (now Rt. 31)	Blossem Hill Milk Bar I bet it was one of the few places on Rt. 22
Clinton Twp. Rt. 31 White Swan Restaurant - 1950s This was suppose to be the "light on the highway" for many, many years on Rt. 69 (Now Rt. 31).	Original Blossem Hill Restaurant and Milk Bar There is a Blossem Hill Rd. but no signs of any of this along Rt. 22. Lebanon

FLEMINGTON, NJ

Rockerfellow's Dam Located by River Road and Rockerfellow Rd. There is now a house on the left side Click here for a current 2009 image from the bridge   Click here for another shot showing the huge tree hanging over the dam from Hurricane Floyd.	Main Street - 1912
Flemington - Main St. by library Current view - 2018 Flemington steam train - 70's ? Current View - 2018 Flemington Court House - 1908 Current View - 2018 HOUSES OF FLEMINGTON - Main St. ENLARGE ENLARGE   ENLARGE ENLARGE ENLARGE ENLARGE   ENLARGE ENLARGE     Flemington New Jersey Flemington Cut Glass (closed - 2002) Flemington town used to be the place to walk around in the '1970s -'80s.  Living in High Bridge since '78, and at a local NJ college before that,  you could not move on the sidewalks during the weekends on Main Street back in those days.   Almost every house on the main street was a store selling something.  Now, most of main street is residential.  A few of the main street houses are restaurants.   Just a few of the larger stores remain on main street. Flemington Cut Glass closed, according to the papers, due to changes in taste for gifts.  No longer are vases and glass art objects given as gifts.  The Flemington "Turntable Juction" (1965) and "Liberty Village" (1982) are still there.  Turntable Junction is trying to hold on since 2000.  But basically that area is no longer for tourists. Many vacant stores and the crowd are gone. With the opening of so many other "outlets" in N.J., the multiple busses that used to travel to Flemington have dwindled.  The Liberty Village outlet shops have kept the area alive and more larger stores have recently opened right next door (2006-'08) .  Check out http://mainstreetflemington.com (died in 2015) if you would like to visit. OOOOPPP... that link is now dead..  now try DownTownFlemington.com  One of the few place to catch a short ride on a real steam train, when in operation. Flemington Outlets.. should now be called OUCH-lets.  March 2017 In the hay days of Flemington Cut Glass and Peddler's Village, there were throngs of people there. The outlets, built in 1988, was so popular there were busses from other states coming.  Sometime after 2014 thing started to change.  We visited there and you can see from the photos, more then half of the stores are empty.  The restaurant, that was there is gone.  The train still runs on weekends so far.  An a vote to tear up Main Street and the Historic Hotel, I'm sure that will brighten up Flemington once again...  UPDATE: Feb. 2018 - Someone is trying to buy the property. I finally got around to shooting Turntable Junction in Flemington, NJ Click here to see August 2015 shots of what's left (this was on a Thurs. ) As of May 2016 the old "antique" store and several building behind it were demolished. In July 2016 a new plan for the Union Hotel was announced.  That historic building and three others should be demolished !  More to come. Update June 2017, the Union Hotel front, was to be saved.  Still, all talk.
Flemington Circle Diner - 1970s	Union Hotel, Flemington - 1920s
Flemington - Union Hotel - 1940s Current View - 2018	Flemington Circle diner -1950s Destroyed by fire in the 90's Flemington Circle changed to ... wait for it.. a circle by the DOT  Flemington Circle - 2018 Note the two "side roads to Rt 12 and to Rt 202 So if you are coming from south 202, you just stay to the right If you are on Rt 31 south going to Rt 12, stay to right Neither go into the circle.

Yes, the Flemington Circle is still there.  (Update May 2015, they are upgrading the circle, to a better circle !)  Also they finally put two continuous lanes going north just after the train underpass to the curve by the truck company.  It now goes 2 lanes all the way up to truck place, then back to 1 lane for 1/4 of a mile... then to the original 2 lanes made in the 1990s.  Why that stretch is one lane each way... must be politics ! Traffic south in the morning is a terrible craw, north after 3:30 was not that bad after they made mostly two lanes north. Rt. 31 from the High Bridge light to Flemington were widened to two lanes in the late 90's.  Then at Flemington, lanes appear and disappear, a center turning lane was added.  The train underpass is still the "blockade" for any 4 lane repair.  Flemington Speedway became a Walmart mall and now (2016) a Cosco was built.  We already have a BJ's, Home Depot, Low's and the Flemington Department Store is still great. In 2017 they fixed the northbound to 2 lane after the train underpass up to a 1.4 mile to the older 4 lane.  That's where it goes back to 1 lane, then back to 2 lanes each way.

Flemington Fair 1900s - reprint	Flemington - Main St. Raggedy Ann Museum What was one of the many houses turned into stores
Iorio Cut Glass	Flemington Fair - 1920s - Note the stage is still there at Turntable Junction
.	Flemington Public Park Note the same house and bandstand in the photo. That bandstand is still there. Current View - 2018
Main Street Flemington - 1912	Danforth's Restaurant '60s- Cooking the modern way, electrically Check out the old post office box

Local Towns

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Easton - Phillipsburg
Since we visit these towns a lot.  I figure it would be interesting what they looked like a few years ago.

Vacation Spots
Places we've visited over the years

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