Ferry Service

A Nice Article describing the "New" Ferry Service. Also note in last paragraph they are going to repair Victory Bridge.

Do You Want to Dance? Part 1

This is just a continuation of Bill's Post "Can I Have Dance.

Most of these events were held on a week night. 

No times were given.

The first dance booklet is from the Goodwill Association. 

It was a Private Reception and Dance 

held on Easter Monday, April 15th 1915.

The dance was held at Washington Hall. 

Fifth Annual Event.
 

 

  

 

 

 Another event was 

The Annual Grand Ball 

of

Lincoln Engine Co. No. 1 

Held at 

Goodwill Hall 

Wednesday Evening 

February 11, 1914

I just love the picture on this booklet. 

The last program for this post is 

C.L.S. Club 

First Grand Dance 

Held on Thursday evening 

February 4, 1915 

at the 

Kroeger Auditorium 

Check out the advertisements
You can just imagine where they were located.

 

To be continued

1875 Daily Graphic - 3

Perth Amboy Banks

Perth Amboy had it's share of banks.

Many of the banks we knew when growing up 

are long gone.

One of the banks we wouldn't remember is 

The Citizens Building and Loan.

(Everytime I see this name, it reminds me of 

the movie "It's A Wonderful Life) 

Citizens Building and Loan was located at 

108 Smith St. 

On the postcard it's on the right hand side with the sign. 

The building is still there. On the building it says Roth Furniture. 

Perth Amboy Savings Institution opened its doors in 

1869.  At the time it was located in a rented room at 

267 High St.  Fours years later the bank's first building was 

located at the Corner of Smith and Rector Streets. 

In 1917, the bank relocated to Smith and

Maple Streets. 

It was renovated in 1968.

Perth Amboy Savings Institution is now Sovereign Bank

The Perth Amboy Trust Company 

was located on Hobart and Smith Streets. 

It added another level.

In the 1960's, AS Beck Shoe Store was located at that site. 

All that is left to remind us that this was a bank at one 

time is the sign on the Hobart St, side of the building. 

 

First Savings and Loan Association 

Located on State Street

If you ever banked at school with those gold colored envelopes

this is the bank where you had an account. 

Changed to Provident Bank sometime in the late 90's or early

2000's

You couldn't miss this bank building. 

Located on the Five Corners. 

Building still looks the same. 

 It's now a Capital One bank.

The First National Bank was located 

on the corner of Smith and Maple. Right across Maple St.

from the Perth Amboy Savings Institution.

The First National Bank was a Wachovia Bank which is now Wells Fargo.

The buildings are still there as a reminder of what they were in the

history of  Perth Amboy.

1875 Daily Graphic

In 1875 The New York Daily Graphic published a number of "Illustrations" of Buildings in Perth Amboy. The ones that are left are:

Please Click on Graphic to Enlarge.

Original City Hall

Methodist Episcopal Church

Raritan Yacht Club

St.Peter's Episcopal Church

The Brighton Hotel

Public School #1 

The Daily Graphic - 1875

The New York Daily Graphic did a story on Perth Amboy,NJ  on Friday, May 28th. 1875

Back in the day articles were thousands of words and very descriptive.

The Article speaks of Perth Amboy as a Summer Resort with rooms available at the 

Packer Hotel or The Brighton.

Also the Article takes you back when Perth Amboy was known as a

Fishing and Shell Fish Center and even mentions South Jersey's

Cranberry and Grape Crops and how Perth Amboy plays into it!

This is PART 1 with more to come......

Perth Amboy Vintage Photos

I enjoy playing detective trying to figure out where and when a photo

in Perth Amboy was taken. 

Today, I got in the mail a photo that I had won on E-Bay. 

Was not sure if it was from Perth Amboy or Sewaren.

There was no writing on the back or a photographers stamp. 

Just from looking at the picture, I could tell it was 

JJ Kelly Cafe (bar) 

Address was 434

The first thing I did was to scan the photo and make it into

a digital image.

I then used a program called GIMP to enlarge the photo. 

Gimp is a great photo editor. It is free. 

You can get it here:

GIMP

I enlarged the photo to 200 percent and  was able to see some of the 

little details in the picture.

No year, but found out it was the 

Grand Opening of Sewaren Beach. 

The next thing I found was a Street Sign. 

Now I was almost certain it was Perth Amboy.

Took out my 1949 City Directory 

and looked up the address. 

It was 434 High St. at the corner of Washington St. 

Now the only thing I had to find out was when

the picture was taken. 

There were two partial Movie Signs in the Window.

One from the Ditmas and the other from the Crescent (Royal) .

I deduced the Wm..Fair was most likely William Fairbanks. 

So I went to Google and searched his movies. 

He did a movie called the "The Sheriff of Sundog" in 1922.

Also looked up 1922 movies and found a movie called 

"Wasted Lives" 

Now I knew where it was and when it was taken..

The last thing I did was go to Google Maps

and see if I could get a picture of what it looks like now. 

I was able to copy the picture from Google Maps and 

make it to a digital image. 

2011 High Street and Washington St.

Start looking through your old Amboy photos and see
what you can discover.