Views: 6,101Mr Local History loves history with a social twist. In fact, it’s our motto! So, we thought it would be fun to share some of the most beloved New Jersey businesses that have disappeared. We began researching and putting… Read More »Wearing Lost Jersey Motorsports Icons is Fun History
Views: 5,796Just like the racetrack that was on the southern end of Westfield in the 1930s, another lost icon, the Westfield Airport, sits at the coordinates 40°36’36.0″N 74°19’08.4″W. Our research started here. As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, updates… Read More »The Lost Westfield Airport In Union County
Views: 5,683Jersey Lost Racetrack Series For a short period, racecar drivers from all over the tri-state area gathered just off Raritan Road on the Westfield/Clark border for the most exciting spectacles of the time, sanctioned midget dirt car racing. Races… Read More »Retrospective: Auto Racing on Jersey’s Westfield-Clark Border
Views: 3,571Walk down memory lane as we journey back to a time when Westfield was a much younger community. “Penny postcards” were primarily used in the early 1900s when you wanted to write to your family and friends from where… Read More »Westfield Penny Postcards
Views: 4,346Time to see what Westfielders feel are the most historic icons in town. Is it The Westfield train station, Rialto Theater, Tamaques Park, Stoneleigh Park, Westfield Fire Department, Jolly Trolley, WWI Memorial, Kehler Field House, Westfield High School, Miller… Read More »Vote for Westfield’s Most Historic Icons
Views: 22,219How about a game? A fun game. A game that mixes history and memories and will take you back to the simpler times growing up in Westfield, New Jersey. We take two businesses no longer in town and ask… Read More »Loved Businesses Lost In Westfield – The H-GOAT GAME
Views: 5,535 The Westfield (NJ) Historical Society presented ‘My Recollections of Westfield, ‘ or, as I transcribed it, Frank Betz’s recollections of his childhood thoughts while growing up in the mid-1900s in Westfield, New Jersey. The Betz family came to Westfield in… Read More »Egypt Hill, Brown’s Pond and The Great Loves of My Childhood in Westfield, New Jersey
Views: 9,149The Mr. Local History project is working with the public to identify lost businesses in Westfield, New Jersey. We have a new history game going on now for those who grew up in Westfield (Click Here), but here, the… Read More »Westfield’s Largest Lost Business List Ever Assembled
Views: 5,728Mr Local History loves history with a social twist. It’s our motto! So we thought: How fun would it be to share some of the most loved Westfield and Cranford, New Jersey businesses that have disappeared? (Two of our… Read More »Wearing Lost Westfield & Cranford Businesses is Fun History
Views: 4,007🏈 The Westfield – Plainfield Thanksgiving Day Football Game. Few local rivalries in New Jersey carry the history and heart of Westfield versus Plainfield. Their first meeting dates back to the turn of the 20th century, with the annual… Read More »Bring Back the Thanksgiving Football Classic – Westfield vs. Plainfield
Views: 5,080The Mayor of New Jersey’s Historic Village recently decreed that a new icon be added to the New Jersey Historic Wooden Village Collection in a bold move to expand the only set of New Jersey collectible icons. Introducing the… Read More »Keepsake: Westfield’s Mindowaskin Pond in Winter is a Treasure
Views: 7,602T’is the season for engagements right? So why not share some of the most historic wedding venues in the Somerset Hills. Many people have written over the years looking for places to hold a wedding on a historic property… Read More »Holiday Engagement? Historic Wedding Venues in Central New Jersey
Views: 12,998The New Jersey White Diamond chain served slider smash burgers as far back as the 1930s… As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post when we learn stories and are sent photos from our community.… Read More »The White Diamond Chain – New Jersey Burger Royalty
Views: 10,042One of the best memories growing up in Westfield, New Jersey, was winter skating on an iconic pond that sat adjacent to the Municipal Building just east of the town center. What is now a distant memory, this post… Read More »Winter as a Kid on Westfield’s Mindowaskin Pond
Views: 17,236Or maybe we need to say: Give everyone the Disneyland Paris Café des Cascadeurs (Stuntman’s) diner update. #disneylandparisdiner As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post when we learn stories and are sAs is the… Read More »Westfield’s Excellent Diner – A Lost (and Found) Jersey Treasure
