U Know Ur From Hackettstown If....
I don't anything will EVER rival the HL thread of "Hackettstown Retail Trivia" but this is a new group on Facebook. For all of us townies this definitely brings back tons of memories and what's great is that so many people are commenting back and forth which brings up new spins on topics mentioned. If you are on Facebook check this out.
lsricc 
Rebecka If I place a link it will be connected to my personal Facebook page. At least I don't know how to do it any other way. But, if anyone has their own FB page, they can just type "U Know Ur From Hackettstown If..." in the search bar on the top of the page.
Can't find the one you mean. I found this one http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56291896470&v=wall
Rebecka, try opening up your personal FB page and typing "U Know Ur From Hackettstown If...." in the search bar at the very top of your page. That's what I did. Sorry, I don't know how to describe it any other way.
Just be careful because your FB page will be clogged up with all the posts.
It did bring back alot of memories for me but it was just too much.
Christine Why can't we do it on the Forum instead of Facebook. You know Ur from Hackettstown if...you can remember back to when there were no developments in town and we really lived in the "country". You know you are from Hackettstown if you brag about looking on the back of every M and M candy that you buy and see Made In Hackettstown..
joyful joyful - I agree. FB = virus. To do that I also get 6000-7000 other pieces of "can't miss" posts and 300 friend requests a day. I'll pass on that.
GC So..let's go..you Oldtimers from Hackettstown or even the newly locates...How do you tell people you are from Hackettstown???
If you want to avoid all of the emails about updates, when your on the group page, you can adjust your settings for that group only. I did this, and no longer get any messages about updates to the group, but still get my updates for other posts.
bac OK, you know Ur From Hackettstown If you remember sitting in the balcony at the Strand Theatre on a Saturday afternoon and then going next door to Knapp's and sitting at the counter drinking a cherry and/or chocolate coke.
You know your are from Hackettstown if you remember when you pushed your babies in strollers up to Newberrys on Main Street and sat at the counter with your friends for lunch.
U know you are from Hackettstown if you mind your own business and did not gab much...my family was raised to mind our own business...
oldman U Know Ur From Hackettstown if you walked down the hall at the Middle School when you children were there several years ago (now in college) and saw your own Washington DC picture from when you were in 8th grade up on the wall.
U know................if you remember the Christmas tree at the intersection of Grand Ave and Main St. in the road!
U Know Ur From Hackettstown when you remember Centenary was an All girls school, Willow Grove Park was a cabage patch, sleigh riding down Hospital Hill (my children), graduating High School from the middle school, M&M mars was in Newark, you had your first drink at the Warren house. The police would park your car, drive you home if you had to much to drink. And pick you up in the morning to get your car to go to work.
auntielU Know Ur from Hackettstown if you can remember the weekend traffic on Main St. before Rt. 80 was completed.
DD u know ur from Hackettstown if you are on the HL website several times a day ;).
Also, going to the Hackettstown Mall-still miss that place!
2Cents 
Caged Animal You know U are from Hackettstown if you were part of the "bucket brigade" out on 46 raising funds to build the hospital.
You remember being able to hit "the tracks" from multiple points on your dirt bike and being able to reach a few spots to ride motocross style, jumps, berms, and all within town limits! Or even being able to goto Saxton Falls Track and really having a go at it! All the while any/all Police Officers only wanted to make sure you were being safe while doing so, without having to enforce any laws regarding trespassing, etc...
CARNi How about the block parties at the Post Office. I was to young to go but my brothers and sisters did.
U know Ur From Hackettstown if..... you remember some of the long ago Hackettstown cops...RudyDreschel,Les Snyder,Ken Farrell,Joe Dunn, Fred Ainsworth, Lou Ryan, or Chief Richard Armstrong to name a few. Or better yet, Chief Richard Hart
You know you are from Hackettstown if you use Washington St. to get across town.
I mean what self respecting Hackettstonian would sit in Main St. traffic.
CBGB 
THE MAN Ahhh. The Strand. And after the movie, as I was leaving, my feet would stick to the floor from all of the spilt soda and buttery popcorn.
Jonathan Stone High school football games at the sand bar. Little league football at the Legion field. Kids going to school at the Legion and the church. No scoccer fields. Fireman parades and carnivals at Sebers with fireworks. cbgb, that's funny and so true.
You hoped the Mister Softee or the Good Humor truck would not schedule his run down your street just before suppertime.
Or if you can remember the Hackettstown Mom's on your street standing outside their homes holding our babies and crying with our neighbors while our husbands were at work hearing the devistating news...President John F. Kennedy has been shot..
Bogy Beers had the right name...I saw him fight with YaYa Kinney and I mean an all out fight...during a clambake at the Riverview Tavern on rt 57...many years ago...Bogy deserves his own thread on this page...
Oldman.. My DH remembers Bogey Beers too..He lived on the corner of Mtn. Ave and Little Street and he also remembers that famous fight...
kelleo22 Police Chief Dick Hart was known for delivering local citizens home after they had over indulged at local taverns...now they just...lock you up and throw away the key
U know your an old timer from Hackettstown if you remember.... watching the legend of Sleepy Hollow with ole Ichabod and seeing a slide show from a famous outdoor naturalist and photographer of New Jersey wildlife(mostly deer) in the massive Middle School auditorium usually right around that shortened day before Thanksgiving.
BobR. @oldman
thanks for the proper spellling on Ed Heneck HPD...and that was many years ago I am that old too
Now about those rail tracks that crossed rt 46 many years ago in budd lake I found the rail bedding off to the right on the east bound side which is all grown over but if you look you can see it on the west bound side its all gone all evedince that it went over to the lake if there are any train buffs of Mount Olive history buffs out there could use your help on this one we are going back to the 1960s when they were still there when 46 only 2 lanes
Bob R. The naturalist/photographer who always visited the middle school was named leonard LaRue. I have no idea how or why I remember this!
Good memory, deviljet! I touched a python when I was a kindergartener at Hatchery Hill thanks to one of Mr. LaRue's visits.
You know you're from Hackettstown if...you met and used to pet Rusty the dog at Kostenbader's liquor store.
You know you're from Hackettstown if...you remember and were ever in the original and very old train station that used to be near the back edge of the current Tickner's property.
borninthe60's 
I remember Leonard LaRue... he was quite a well known wildlife photographer...remember he put on the slide shows when all had to go to the auditorium...at least it was a break from class...Caged Animal...the only type of rail line that could be in the area you talk about was the Morris County Trolley line...and I dont think that line was extended to Budd Lake...give me a better clue as to where the abandoned railbed is...I have all the old maps...heres a picture of Morris County trolleys...near Landing NJ...the trolley line actually went to Bertrands Island Amusement park
Mr. Noble read you "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in the H.S. auditorium in red, long underwear
yellocanary boy i am dusting off cobwebs here...but when Leonard LaRue came to school...was that not called an assembly...in the auditorium...
@ Oldman
Leonard LaRue was great loved it when he came to our school at white township and belvidere high he is a local guy and i think his son went to belvidere high too racking the brain pan he was a true lover of nature the kids today are realy missing out on a great thing
U Know Ur From Hackettstown If....
You remember the Ferro-Cement sailboat Red Grogan was building on Stiger st.
U Know Ur From Hackettstown If....
Your mother bought your school clothes at Robert Halls.
U Know Ur From Hackettstown If....
You tubed down the Muskie, went swimming/diving at the Grove and ended up at Corkie Miller's house by the sandbar.
U Know Ur From Hackettstown If....
Western Auto didn't have the extended forks for your Schwinn Stingray chopper.
And many more..
Picture is the Miller's boat heading home.
You know you're from Hackettstown if you can name three teachers who biked to work.
Mrs White, Mr Applegate, and Mr Noble
PJM Oldman. DH remembers Corkie Miller as well and said he also delivered beverages and beer for a company out of Wharton called High Grade Beverages at one time.
My parents always spoke highly of Corkie and wouldn't call on anyone else to service and or fix their furnace in their home.
.. you know where the Sinclair Gas station was located and what the youngsters bought there for 50 cents in the summertime
diggity if...................you remember Woody Rush was the Captain of the '61 team. I can't help but remember because I married him.
apple You bought your house from the Orts, Fiedlers, or Monetti's, remember the opening of McDonalds & the free Ronald McDonald dolls (which my brother treasured!!) Saw Star Wars at the Strand, The excitement of the "new" Mall Theater, Shopped at Leeters for underwear, and Ann's Dress Shop on Valentine Street for Prom Dresses, had to have mexican jumping beans from Newberry's, Ate at Mama's Pizza in the Mall, Your dad worked at the Picadilly Restaurant in the Mall (Picadilly bread - the best!!), You sleigh rode down suicide hill, what fun!! You sang "No it ain't Broadway, it's Hackettstown..." in the High school Chorus Concert (OK, I'm dating myself here). When you left home you gave directions as Exit 19,
scrappermom Oldman
I grrrrr over the millers name cause i forgot them oh wow I worked with his one son
CagedAnimal...if i think...what this subject is about...every diner and gas station... in town sold those things... in the restrooms...one time a friend bought one and thought it was a balloon...whoops...
Thanks for the memories, scrappermom! All but Picadilly and the HMS concert apply to me, too.
How about...you know you are from Hackettstown if...you ate at the K-Mart restaurant in the Hackettstown Mall that had the pilgrim theme - I think it was called the Bradford House or something like that. (My grandparents and my great aunt used to like to eat there in the early-mid 70's.)
U Know Ur From Hackettstown If....
You can remember when the Htown mall wasn't there....
If you were ever seated in the torture chair at Dr. Silbers office....
DB DB: How could I forget Dr. Silber..he pulled a tooth right away that I now wish I had been able to save...young and foolish..but he was a nice man!
OMG I totally forgot about Dr. Silber!!! Does anyone remember Dr. Shevitz (sp?) who had his office on Grand Avenue? What a different time....he actually made house calls!!!!
joyful - he pulled one of my teeth before the novacain took effect! Man o man did that hurt.. I told my parents that I refuse to go back to him.
He didn't seem to have a secretary and when he worked on you and the phone rang he would leave all the tools in your mouth and ask you to hold the one in his hand and he would go answer the phone.
You've lived next door to the same 2 neighbors for 40 yrs. You remember when their children were born and are still there to see their grandchildren born.
kissycat Did Ruby's have a lunch counter or some sort of side counter along Church Street? I have a vague memory of being there with my grandfather to get something to eat.
Banking at United Jersey Bank in the mall. But it was located on the outside. Then again, you had the drive up hole in the wall in the middle of the parking lot, where Applebees is now located.
Does anyone remember the Orange Savings Bank? I think it was on the corner of Washington St. and Hudson St. There might be another bank there now.
Didn't United Jersey Bank have two locations open at the Hackettstown Mall at the same time? I remember the outside drive-up location that you mentioned, but I also remember a small branch office of that same bank across the cement courtyard from the mall movie theatre lobby.
I worked in the first Orange Savings ..It is now called Hudson Savings and is on the corner of Washington St. and Grand Avenue.
borninthe1960's,
Yes. There were two locations open at the same time. However, that was a loooooong time ago. After a short period of time, the drive-up was closed and abandoned for years.
mistergoogle I remember the Shop Rite fire so well too. I lived just up the street and could not believe how quickly Shop Rite was reduced to rubbles. The sound of cans bursting in the fire will remain in my head forever.
Dr Timbrell...the master driller without any pain relief...DR Timbrells torture chair...and he got away with it...nice guy...
you would not believe how rotten the old Doctors in Hackettstown treated their patients...as compared to today...there were certain Doctors... that were good and then there were the quacks to stay away from...some Doctors treated their patients like guinea pigs...read this and think back
You went to the Tri County fair in the summer where Weis is now, and went sleigh riding down the same hill in the winter.
nonny THAT was his name. Dr. Timbrell. Ceramic spitter, silver fillings that I STILL have in my mouth! Still remember the fear with every filling that had to be done. Couldn't understand why doctors wanted to numb me for fillings after we moved!
Peggy C. At the Stiger Street Shop Rite, anyone could stick their hands in the pickle bucket.
Farmall49 
Tanya 
Dixie U know Ur from Hackettstown if....you are still wearing clothes you bought at Reynolds!
Lady Jayne You swam at the SandBar, then when it closed had lessons with Ray Kietrys in resident's pools around town before the new pool was built.
Went to Newberries and popped a balloon to find out how much your ice cream would cost, shopped at Bach's drug store. Got clothes at Leonards youth togs.
Walked downtown on a Friday night to pick up the delivery from Sears Roebuck store, ate at the Cottage restaurant with your family.
Mom forced you to take sewing lessons at the Singer store in the Hackettstown Mall.
Dr Miller jabbed you hard with needles as a kid, and gave out pills in little paper envelopes, and you got tetracycline from him that grayed your teeth.
Sang Oh its a Christmas at HHS while wearing pointy shoes and an elf costume.
And bought 45 records at Country Pie music store on Main St.
hktownie you know you are from hackettstown if you remember the car dealership (can't remember which one it was) on washington street - where community collision is now.........thanks for the memories everyone! i wonder what ever happened to the cement boat????
wcgal 
darlughh 
Slade It was Veys on Washington Street... I own a 1965 Pontiac that was purchased new there. I still have the invoice...
Greg I remember the Jigger Shoppe. It was originally owned by the Shapiro family and then Helen and Charlie West took over. It was first located on Main Street where the Isshin Ryu School of Karate is now before moving to the location on the corner of Main and Moore Streets. I worked there as a little girl.
iJay You threw a rock in the sludge pond across from the Tannery just to watch that purple-brown gunk splash up.
They skate there now...
...you remember
the old "head shop" on Main Street
and Jerry and Sound Effects
honey badger U know you’re from Hackettstown when The Hess softball team was the one to beat, You seen dud's and suds, Your fist free pizza was given to you by a young boy that just came over to work at his family’s pizza shop in the old mall.(Tommie). You use to go to the theater for 50 cents on a Saturday and ride your bike.
Bilby road was a place to camp; Dr Staniwitz had a faucet on his file cabinet. There was no law for livestock in town proper so the Petty’s had a horse a goat and chickens in a little back yard. Jeans for all, Newbery’s, Mick and Heddys etc.... A great place to grow up and a great place to come back too to raise my kids.
DR If you drank as an underage 17 year old at Cavanughs. Then went went Clee's (spelling? )
If the "tracks" kinda freaked you out.
If you ever eat lunch at the auction market.
And what was the name of the place with the cheeze steaks???
If you dropped into the water at penwell mills from the rope swing.
yearsago You know your from Hackettstown if you remember some of the old Hackettstown Mayors... such as: Frank Fowler, Bob Kitchen, Jim Smith and Pat Harper.
suzique 
happycamper 
JL ...you remember the block dances in the post office parking lot before the Carrs' house was torn down. Those were the days : )
You remember Stouts Lumber Yard (in area where Tickners is now) and that the Police Dept. was housed over Moore St. Firehouse ( as per The Duke).
P.S: Never remember Tri County Fair being in the area that Weiss Market is now. Pretty sure it was always held in the field across from Diamond Hill (as per JL.)
Tri county fair was held on the corner of Rt. 57 where Weis is now. 1970. I was a freshman in High School at the time and remember it well. Joyful, ask Lester he would remember.
Whitey: I asked my hubby....he said the Tri County Fair has always been held on the old Hazen farmland as far as he can remember. I guess you two "have to have a talk".
The Tri County fair was, at one time, held where Weis is today. I remember sitting on a hill behind the fair groups watching Jerry Lee Lewis. May have been the summer of 71.
Thanks, esd.....can't wait to tell The Duke.. Maybe it was held there the one time he missed it for some reason or other.
There was a small store on the corner of Mountain Ave. and East Ave. Where Rite Aid is. Was it called Carl's Place?
I remember Carl's place very well too. We lived in Kenwood Village (the 5th house in when it was built by Klingman Builders) and would stop frequently at Carl's place on the way home from work.
I remember Kenwood Village! The houses were fairly new when I lived in Hackettstown. 1962 to 1974. I lived on Lawrence Drive, directly down the road fro the Dairy Queen and the Orange Pit! My mom bought my school clothes at Robert Hall's, and the elementary school was brand new when I attended it. We walked to and from school, and everywhere, and it was actually safe.
Cherie Fox-Bolt I remember you too, Cherie and your Mom and Dad...We lived on Laurie Terrace. Those were really the "good ol days"...Hackettstown was still a small hometown where everybody knew everybody and all the neighborhoods were close.
anybody remember the pet store behind the mountain avenue quick chek?
it was actually in a house on Washington Street behind the old gravestone maker
we used to get fish there
i had a hamster named squeaker
a parakeet named chirper
and two hermit crabs named Hefty and Wimpy because one was big and one was small
Erik B. Anderson 
Wild Angel @ Cherie....I grew up in Kenwood on Seymour. Use to cut through the Elks at night. I think I'd be a little freaked out doing that today. Sure seemed safer then. ~SIGH~
Anyone remember the music place next to the Jack and Jill Store? The music teacher's name was Pete.
PBM 86 years ago, I was born in an apartment on Main street in Hackettstown .N.J.....moved and.lived at 515 Grand Ave ...until I married and moved to Oklahoma when I was 20 years old .....I remember and love the town as I knew it then and I wander off and go there from time to time in memory. My Dad was a high school teacher ... his home room was up stairs and the grade school kids grades one through eight were down stairs ....I used to ride my bike to Allamuchy and Washington, N.J. .... eat my lunch in the park and then ride back home ... my bike was my wings ......if anyone remember Bill and Betty Voorhees ...they were my parents ... my sister Marie lives close by in the same trailer park here in Florida. all this to day ..... you can take the kid out of Hackettstown but you can't take Hackettstown out of the kid .....Hooyah !!
Lois Jeqn Hutson WHEN YOU say Bogey Beers was a cop, do you mean papa Bogey or baby Bogey. I know baby Bogey was never a policeman and so knew him quite well.
sientje smith Bogy was a special cop for a while. They wanted him on their side. Donna and bog live in colorado.
moosie 
I wrote a book (fiction) that incorporates much of my growing up experiences in H'town in the 50s. If you read it you may recognize the characters which are based on many of my friends and acquaintances during that time.(Brentford, Bogey, Joe T., Rich Williams, The Flash, Big Moose, Moose, Little Moose, Mini Moose, Coach Morrison). The story of course is a complete fabrication but the characters in many respects are real. It is "Who Killed Coach?". You can read it for free on the Internet or buy it as an ebook at Amazon or Smashwords. http://wsautter.com/read-save-walts-books-ipad
Walt S. In the early 70s The Tri-County Fair was where Weiss is and then in the early-mid seventies it moved to the field across from Diamond Hill.
Oh man, I really miss the Tri county fair! The best was when Yasgur's Farm played there. And WE where able to walk to the fair...hooo vaaaa...need I say more? LOL!
sparksjbc1964 Joyful~~my great uncle was officer Joe Dunn. Reading your comment just brought a smile to my face.
Dima .....you remember the huge formed swimming pool that sat on an empty lot for years where IHOP /McDonalds is now.
OnTheEdge Dima...My hubby worked with Joe Dunn and he was one of my best customers when I owned my little shop on Main St. in Hackettstown.
bill n I remember Doc. Harmon. When my children were little...he would make house calls in the middle of the night in the 60s when we lived in Kenwood Village. Great Doctor!
if you remember that the kostenbader family owned the liquor store before shop-rite had it in the location were the domino's pizza is now.
@ been there before: Also remember the Kostenbader family and family dog who used to take the business banking deposits to the bank from the liquor store unattended at times. I think his name was Big Red. A beautiful and obviously very smart Irish Setter... We visited with the daughter of the former owner of Kostenbader Liquor store and her husband recently in Florida.
If you remember Mamas Pizza being at the Hackettstown Mall next to Pinball Wizard and The Barber Shop.
Going to the Nook for Teen Night
Buying fish at Tank Town
Eating at Cactus Jacks
Working out at Leons Gym (Now Achieve Fitness)
Buying Candy at Harts
Riding your bike up to Stewarts for a Root Beer
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