Items

• 1971 Weehawken Recreation Baseball All Stars

  In this photo from the Jersey Journal, dated December 21, 1971, Weehawken Recreation Baseball All Stars Charlie Lorenzo, Jay Mahoney and Rick Schoeber pose with their trophies and league officials Al Pereira and John Fedderer.
• Pool Opening Day 1970

  BLack and white photo of Mayor Iacono, John Federer, and Joseph Silverman presiding over Weehawken Township's public swimming pool in 1970. Photo donated by Phil Silverman.
• Weehawken Junior Rifle Club Patch

  Gold and Blue patch: Weehawken Police Junior Rifle Club, NRA Affiliate. According to Time Machine user John Haug (WHS '66)... The Weehawken Junior Rifle Club met in the attic of the Town Hall in the early 60s. There was a 50s pistol range there at the time. Capt Harry Decker and Lt George Willmott, I think, were adult advisors, and the members ranged in age from about 13-17, as I recall. As an affiliate of the NRA, the club acquired some .22 cal Mossberg target rifles from the Federal Gov't. We competed with some other clubs in the North Jersey area.
• Charity Baseball Game Scorecard - St Lawrence Church - 1938

  Score card from a charity baseball game on Sunday, August 7, 1938 between the mighty Weehawken White Sox and the Wm. Thoren Assn., Jrs. The double header was held at the Hoboken Soccer Field.
• 1938 Basketball Belt Buckle

  This brass belt buckle is inscribed: 1938 W.W.H.S. J.V. Champs and has a picture of a basketball player. I assume that WWHS is Woodrow Wilson High School and JV is Junior Varsity.
• Entrance to Lincoln Tunnel, Stadium and Playground

  This photo appeared in the Northern Hudson County Recognition Number and Industrial Guide published by the Chamber of Commerce of Northern Hudson County in 1939 or 1940. According to Bernie Zempolich, the playground in this picture is actually a tennis court.
• New York Sun - Another Prize Fight

  Article from the Tuesday Morning, January 20, 1835 edition of the New York Sun describing a prize fight in Weehawken: Agreeable to arrangements two notorious boxers accompanied by about two hundred select spectators, proceeded on Saturday last to Hoboken and from thence to Wehawken to "do some sport in the ring..."
• A-hunting We Must Go

  An account of nature and hunting in North Hudson from a history of West New York. Thanks to Bob Schwartz for finding this.