Disused VFW Hall

bob slezak: 29th Sep 2003 - 03:02 GMT

vfw..hall 10th and garden street my old block i lived at 924 garden st .vfw was one story bld. then ..is it still ??there ?? i met my wife there 46 years ago ..we are still in love with each other..any one for stick ball...

bob slezak: 27th Nov 2003 - 20:08 GMT

hoboken n.j. city noise ..tugs ferrys, holland america line fog horns in bad weather.days gone by..the street noise .kids playing stick ball..jump rope.car horns..moms calling there kids to come in and eat..push carts ..horse drawn fruit wagons..fire trucks going by the smell ..maxwell house coffee if the wind was right..wonder bread also..the sound of people italian ..german..irish..the tast..biggies.clams..ables ice ream..if you can remember some of these things .then you remember hoboken when hoboken was hoboken..are there any of us left..i wonder .????????

are you from hoboken ?: 1st Dec 2003 - 19:48 GMT

....if so say some thing...like the hang outs .of the late 50s ables..jac-o-dines..umblums ..biggies..find old friends .class mates..

Ted Teodoro: 4th Dec 2004 - 14:24 GMT

hey, what apartment did you live in at 924 Garden street? The building is turning Condo right now. I saw the top floor apartments, and the marble fireplaces were very charming.

hobokenites: 18th Oct 2005 - 02:42 GMT

type in your comments..things you remember from the 50s ..demarest high school..hoboken ...biggies clams ..ables. umblums ..jack.o. dines ..janetts ..looking and finding old friends ect..

Jerry Pflugh: 17th Oct 2006 : 17th Oct 2006 - 21:59 GMT

My dad, Ted Pflugh, was Commander of that VFW post, the Mohr-Christie Post #158, several times during the fifties, and my mom, Eileen, was President of the Ladies Auxiliary. They were in office when the post mortgage was paid off. As a kid I remember the Poppy drives, parades on the major holidays, and free hot dogs in the post rooms after the parades…Although I have not been back to Hoboken in almost 50 years, I have lots of memories of the “old” Hoboken…Saturday matinees at the U.S. or the Fabian…playing in the caves below the “Greenies”…browsing comic books in Smitty’s Candy Store at 14th and Bloomfield…Christmas tree bonfires in the vacant lot behind the billboards on Washington Street…Trick or Treating on Thanksgiving instead of Halloween (an old German custom, I’m told)… that mean cop who used to run us off Steven’s Campus…the breezes from Secaucus…playing in the boxcars down near the docks by Maxwell House… SS Peter and Paul’s grammar school, could you ever forget Sr. Estelle, Father Heir, Sr. Arthur, Sr. Josephine Anne?…St. Michael’s High, Union City… the jitneys on Washington Street…and the night Hollywood premiered On The Waterfront at the Fabian.

jack: 19th Apr 2007 - 14:49 GMT

mariana, sorry but non comprende italiano, e non polare, scusa mia italian, prego, si capeto english,

and to jerry, i am a member of the VFW, and its nice that you have good memories of your dad's post. sorry but i'm from brooklyn and as far as brooklynites were concerned hoboken was only famous for sinatra of course the monte games were great also.

Mary Pflugh Sacco: 8th Jul 2007 - 00:20 GMT

my Dad grew up in HOBOKEN AND HIS CLAIM TO FAME WAS THAT THE FIRST ORGANIZED BASEBALL GAME WAS ABSOLUTELY PLAYED THERE. dUKE WAS BORN IN HOBOKEN IN 1917. hIS UNCLE WAS DR. PFLUGH.

bob slezak: 16th Jul 2007 - 01:39 GMT

any body remember joe crimmins ..he belonged to the post ..he was my best man at my wedding .in 1961...his brother was george hoboken police chief ........

Dennis Maloney: 16th Jul 2007 - 03:27 GMT

Yeah, I knew the Grimmins family pretty well. They have a cousin living here in CA. and he is a pretty cool guy. He was born up in Joisey City and talks about Bergenline Ave when he was a kid, but has forgotten most of all of Joisey.

Dennis Maloney: 16th Jul 2007 - 03:29 GMT

NOISE in Hoboken!!! It got so that you did not pay attention to any of it most of the time, unless it was your mother hollering for you to get your butt home. NOISE was a part of Hoboken!!!