Items

• Matchbook - Shanghai Reds

  Matchbook from Shanghai Red's, which was located on Pier D-T, at the current site of the Chart House on the Weehawken waterfront. Shanghai Red's opened in 1984, one of the first restaurants on the rehabbed waterfront. Unfortunately, the restaurant went bankrupt in 1993 and was replaced in 1994 by the Chart House, which later suffered a fire and has now also closed. The Time Machine does not believe in curses, but... According to a review of the newly opened Chart House from 1994, "You never went to Shanghai Red's for the food. The salad greens were often brown, the steaks pre-cooked, the desserts desultory. But what a view!" Not a great epitaph, but there you go. Thanks to Susie Felber of the Weehawken Gazette for clearing up errors on this page - no Shanghai Red's may have burned a steak or two, but it never burned down.
• Freight Yards, Weehawken, NJ

  Black and white undivided photo postcard view of the freight yards, piers, Hudson River and New York skyline. Postmarked November 3, 1907 from Hoboken.
• Kings Bluff Curve, Weehawken, N.J.

  Hand colored photo postcard of a curve around the bluff at the bottom of the Palisades with railroad tracks. A train can be seen in the distance. Postmarked March 9, 1908.