Journal Square, Jersey City

MGM's 'Way for a sailor' released on 1st November 1930. 

Journal Square in the 1960s. 

PATH Journal Square Station. John P Spiak wrote in Facebook: I remember going to a concert at the (Madison Square) Garden and while we were on the train somebody rolled a joint the size of a cigar and passed it around. When we got to Christopher St and the doors open, the smoke poured out of our car like something out of a Cheech & Chong movie. It was hilarious!

John P Spiak answered:  Cool!  Definitely the good ole fun DAZE. 

Journal Square seen from above sometime in the 1960s. 

Journal Square with Loew's Jersey on the left background in the summer of 1972.

Central Rail Road of New Jersey RS-12 # 1207 in a shot next to the CNJ FM Trainmaster; in Jersey City, N.J.; photo taken in September 1964; CNJ # Road Switcher # 1207 was built in January 1953, and by 1972 only # 1207 & 1208 remained at work; by January 1973, all the CNJ's RS-12 were retired.

Pete Rickershauser wrote in Facebook: the F-M is behind, not alongside, the Baldwin, accounting for the perceived size difference. Great photo - thanks for sharing! Eugene Powell wrote: Wow, I never realized the FM-15-44 was so small, looking like Mugsy Bogues of locomotives next to the Baldwin. The Trainmasters would have been a different story. A Time Capsule view!

Railways, tunnels and tracks

Newark PATH turnstiles.

Penn Station track ramp. 

GG1 locomotive at Penn Station platform; Bill Labos wrote at Facebook: In 60s, 70s and 80s I rode on many GG1 pulled Amtrak trains from New Brunswick to Newark and back to New Brunswick first going to school and then working in Newark. Finally in the mid to late 80s, the GG1’s were retired and replaced with modern much more efficient locomotives. But there will always be a certain mystique about the General Electric GG1.

Frank Prebinski wrote: I remember that my Dad would take me Penn Station by Public Service bus from Kearny to see the GG1’s in action. It was a big thrill for a little kid. God bless him this Father’s Day! I’ll never forget those simpler times.

Oshedrick Toomer Jr. wrote: That's track 4, at Newark Penn Station.

Stephen Williams to Oshedrick Toomer Jr.: I'm thinking track 1 or 1A, whatever they call it. Notice the PATH (Hudson Tube) sign. Inbound (eastbound) as the rear curve goes to the left. If it were outbound (westbound ) the curve would bend to the right.

John Driscoll wrote:...and on the other side were the PATH trains. Lord, how I miss those days.

GG1.

Penn Station 4 July 1969.

under the Hudson River.

Ironbound rail-bridge over Passaic River next to Penn Station.

Kawasaki brand-new PATH train...

Ferry Street, Ironbound, Newark, N.J.

Ferry Street looking south...

Ferry Street looking north...

Ferry Street looking south & beyond... see Newark Bay Bridge at North Bayone Park in the background (centre) and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (further south on the righ-hand side).

Ferry Street corner with Polk Street.

Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Ferry & McWhorter Streets.

2nd Dutch Reformed Church on Ferry & McWhorter in the 1960s.

Ferry and Union Street with the Central RR of NJ bridge on the left.

Joe Silva wrote in Facebook: This was the Central R.R. of N.J. bridge over Ferry Street at Prospect Street. in late 1970. After the abandoment of the line most of the tracks and bridges were scrapped.  Does anyone know who received the contract to scrap the tracks and bridges?

One of many fascinating examples of ethnic succession in the Ironbound is this 1848 Second Dutch Reformed Church, then, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, now an Evangelical Protestant congregation.

This church formerly had a tall steeple, but the steeple was removed after World War II. The building became Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in 1890, and was one of the first parishes in Newark to serve Italians. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini herself, the first American citizen to be canonized, operated a school in the basement here.

56 Prospect Street Fire Station.