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- Plus 118 years
- 118 Years Later
- Public School 2 on the right.
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- Interesting history of Straus's campaign for pasteurization
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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Anarchists Live Here: 1908
Paterson, New Jersey, ca. 1908. "Passaic Street -- anarchists live here." Paterson was a hotbed of labor unrest in the early 1900s, with the label "anarchist" seemingly applied to anyone from strike organizer to bomb thrower. 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
Hey Abbott
A couple years before photo was taken, Lou Costello was born there. And a few years after, a major strike by silk workers in 1913 turned into a general strike -- ultimately unsuccessful.
City of birth
The city of my birth and higher education -- it was just as gritty forty years ago.
From anarchists to
parallel parkers. The brick building to the immediate right was and is Public School No. 2, now attached via skywalk to the brick building that takes up most of the rest of that side of Passaic Street. In the distance, a commercial building and the former First National Bank building are still on Ellison Street.
Plus 118 years
The same view today. P.S. 2 is still visible to the right.
Public School 2 on the right.
Still stands and a newer larger building is connected to the one seen in the photo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_School_Number_Two
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