Dr. Martin Luther King in Newark in 1968

 

Dr. Martin Luther King at South Side Hight School on 27 March 1968, only 8 days before being shot and murdered in Memphis, Tennessee on 4 April 1968. 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks through South Ward on 27 March 1968.

Sacred Heart Cathedral

 

Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1941. 

Clifton Avenue pool in 1941. 

Walt Sommer wrote in FB:  As a young boy growing up in Newark, in the late 1950s & early 1960s, I only knew about Boylan Street pool off of South Orange Ave. for a dime swim. Or Olympic Park at 90 cents. I shined shoes all up and down Springfield Avenue to earn my way in.

Victor DiBlasi wrote in FB: Nickel pretzels and 5 cents lemon-ice. Went there almost every day in the summer. My dad Thomas was the superintendent of the pool for a while. Great memories.

Sacred Heart in 1920.

1915.

Newark's own Four Seasons with the Cathedral in the background...

Broad Street railway stations

 

Broad Street train station in 1970.

Lackawanna Place on Broad Street in 1959. 

Central Rail Road of New Jersey, on Broad Street. 

Jon K. Hannesson wrote at FB on 13 December 2025: It was the western Terminus of the CNJ Newark and New York Branch that ran from Jersey City to Newark. It also served some trains from the Jersey shore. A boat hit the bridge over the Hackensack River in 1946, which ended direct service to Jersey city. From that point until the end of service in 1967, you needed to change trains in Elizabethport to go to Jersey City.

George King wrote: CNJ (Central Railroad of New Jersey) had 3 tracks coming out the rear of the building that crossed over the PRR and I remember a big bridge that crossed Ferry Street. 

James Reese asked: Where was this place?  All I remember is Penn Station.

Craig Harrison replied: It was on Broad Street next to 838 Broad Street, between Edison Place & Lafayette Street. 

CNJ - Ferry Street station between Prospect St and Congress St.

CNJ crosses Ferry Street next to Prospect Street. 

Mulberry Street bridge, Municipal Year Book 1947. 

CNJ crosses over Pennsylvania RR and Mulberry Street. 

Reuben Rodriguez wrote: I've just followed the railroad path on Google Earth. I always wondered what the railroad bridge led to that crosses over near Newark Penn Station. It looks like it crossed over the Hackensack River, to Jersey City and into Manhattan. I see how that worked since some tracks are used for different purposes now.

CNJ - East Ferry Street Station 

CNJ - East Ferry Street Station in 1909. 

CNJ - East Ferry Street Station 

City Hall on Broad Street

 

City Hall on Broad Street in 1959.

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy speaks in front of Newark City Hall on 12 October 1962.

JFK rides in a motorcade at Broad St. and William St. on 12 October 1962.

same picture with a better resolution.

McCarter Highway through the years...

 

Route 21 aka McCarter Highway looking east - 1957.

1950.

McCarter Highway & Cherry Street in 1959.

McCarter Hwy in 1961. 

McCarter Highway dedication in 1943. 

McCarter Highway with a locomotive GG1 speeding up to hell...

Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, Freight Station. Then, Ward Street & Mechanic Street; now, McCarter Highway & Edison Place.

Vincent Boniello wrote:from what I understand it was a refrigeration warehouse and it was less expensive to retrofit it than to knock it down. It was what I believe built like a fortress. It opened on 1st August 1907.

Luis Arroyo answers Mark Arritola: Yes! here is a map of the second story indoor rail yard. Today Mechanic Street is Edison Place. Ward Street is now NJ Route 21 - McCarter Hwy. Lawrence Street is now Columbia Avenue.

Pennington Street; Duane Odell wrote in Facebook: I'll always remember this location, Pennington Street! I cracked a rim on my Caddie (smile); I'm still pissed!!

Tommy Smith wrote: Peddie Street looking west!

Jim Kaywork wrote: Haynes Ave?

Darrell Shoulars wrote: It looks like North Newark by Verona Avenue?

Pennington Street. 

Hayes Park East Pool on Waydell Street, Ironbound

 

Hayes Park East Pool 

- Persons dressed only in bathingsuits permitted in pool area

- Do not dress or undress on pool deck 

- No running, diving, pushing, ball playing, dunking, eating or drinking in pool area

- No food, drinks, face masks, baby carriages, floats. 

Hayes Park East Pool in 1983. 

Carlos Hugo enjoys a dip at Hayes Park East pool in 1977.

1947.

Clifton Ave Pool (here in the early 1960s) changed its name to Rotunda Pool in the 1940s. Joseph Ralph Rotunda was the first soldier from Newark’s Italian-American community to die in World War II. He had a city pool named after him.

Clifton Avenue Pool in 1941.

Angela DeGennaro Lucas wrote: Originally called Clifton Pool when it opened. Later it became Rotunda pool named for, I believe, the first serviceman from the neighborhood to lose his life in WWII.

Boylan Street Pool in 1951.

Boylan Street pool in 1960. 

Karen Pellow wrote: Wasn't this at one time called the 'Polio Pool' and shut down?

Jacqueline Janson Burge answered: Actually, some called it "The Polio Pit".

Gene O'Mullan added: In the early 1950s every place children frequented was considered a 'polio pit'.

Debra Evans said: My mom wouldn’t let my older siblings go there because of the polio scare.

Rosemarie Michele:  I went there almost every day;  free to get in the morning, ten cents in the afternoon! Loved it.

Hayes Park East Pool was situated on Waydell Street between Ferry St. & Raymond Boulevard.

The green lot seen from the satellite - between Ferry Street & Raymond Boulevard - is where the Hayes Park East Pool was located with a public entrance from Waydell Street.

Springfield Avenue & West Market Street

 

Springfield Avenue in the 1940s.

West Market Street in 1970. 

West Market Street in the 1930s. Street car goes to Springfield Ave.

Washington Street in 1937; Tram car will turn into West Market St. with Bamberger's building on the right.

Washington & Market Streets before Bamberger's moved to that block.

a man boarding a street car on Market St. in 1945.

West Market Street after dark in the 1950s. 

Robert O'Brien wrote: What street address and cross streets was it located? This picture looks like Broad Street and Raymond Blvd. where Kresghes was?

Adele Dawson Tucker answered to Robert O'Brien: Bingo!

Ohrbach on Market Street in the 1950s. Seth Jerchower wrote in Facebook: Not only did my family shop at Orbach's, but my paternal grandmother was a seamstress there in Ladies' Alterations from the 1940s until her retirement in 1973. Of course, as a kid, Orbach's specializing in clothing, Bamberger's was my favorite store. Still, I remember many a sweater or some other garment I received as gifts in their white boxes with gold and blue accents.

Pennington Court - Doug Douglass wrote in Facebook: 208-222 South Street; built in 1939, with 236 apartments; It's still standing in 2026. Tim Johnson wrote: Kind of amazing how densely built up Newark was back then. For better or worse many of those apartments and factories are long gone.