June 2024 -- Nutley Historical Society Art Historian Barry Lenson made a pleasant discovery while visiting Roosevelt House on the Upper East Side of New York City. There, Lenson spotted the work of Enclosure Artist Reginald Marsh.
Little more than 100 years ago, the ten-acres now known as Kingsland park was mostly private land, however, following World War 1 and the creation of Memorial Park to honor those who served and died in that war, Nutley's town fathers saw the need to preserve more public space in our town. Here, Dave Wilson who grew up mid-century with the park as his virtual backyard traces the evolution of the wild woods to the beautiful park today.
Among items that turned up for sale at the Nutley Family Service Bureau Thrift Shop recently were a small collection of vinyl discs from about 1944, when in addition to military V-Mail, certain locations had a special booth where one could record a letter to send to a loved one. The Thrift Shop donated the items to the Nutley Museum.
(Sept. 5, 1947) Letters signed by Arthur L. Manchee, chairman of the World War II Memorial committee are being sent out today to all residents of Nutley requesting contributions to the fund required to establish the Memorial Green adopted by the committee last June and subsequently unanimously approved by the town commission as the town’s tribute to its war dead.
The families of the 81 heroes to whom the memorial will be dedicated have not been included in this appeal, in recognition of their sacrifice.
In 99 years Richard Titus of Warren Street has done a lot of living and expects to do a lot more, which is why he was so pleased and excited when he was made an honorary member of the Canal Society of New Jersey.
Titus knows a thing or two about the canal, having worked on the legendary waterway for ten years in the early days of this century, four of them as captain of one of the massive cargo barges that plied the 102-mile commercial waterway.
There are places in Nutley where you can really feel the past. But of them all, one of the richest is lower Park Avenue near the Passaic River, where some very important events took place.
Back in the 1930s, the area behind the Parks and Recreation Building was the site of the Nutley
Velodrome, one of the world’s capitals of bicycle racing at the time. In the 1950s, the land across the street that is now Glotzbach Park was the location of an artillery base, (Battery A of the 98th AAA Air Defense Battalion) called Camp Nutley, where more than 100 artillerymen manned the guns and radar to protect New York from attack by Soviet planes.
The Junior Woman's Club of Nutley used the house at 226 Chestnut Street for its functions from 1912 to 2012. The Vreeland House changed hands in May 2012 when the Junior Woman's Club of Nutley turned over the property to the township of Nutley, N.J. The Nutley Board of Commissioners placed oversight of the 200-plus year-old house in the hands of the Nutley Historical Society which will inventory the parts, parcel and frame the artifacts in the historical sense.
I have never understood why U.S. presidents don’t come to Nutley as soon as they are inaugurated and give a speech in the Oval, have you? Even though they don’t, at least two of them did come to Nutley, and so did one other famous White House resident. Let’s find out who they were.
Nutley, N.J., July 17, 1975 – “Please. I don't know who was where and who did what. But please put in The Sun a thank you note from me to everyone. Make it nice for me — if you can, put it in black letters. What can I say but thanks to everyone.”
So spoke a happy Nutley police officer named John Guerino from Room 254 at Clara Maass Memorial Hospital. He's in good shape and good spirits following a dramatic rescue here Monday that won't be forgotten for a lifetime.
There were three shows a day, a matinee from three to five, 25 cents for adults, 15 cents for children under 12. Two evening shows from seven to eleven, 40 cents and 25 cents, and a Saturday matinee. Blue laws prevented Sunday shows.
