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Black and white photo of Hackensack Avenue, which was was the main business block in the Shades. Pictured are several storefronts, including a barbershop with a pole. According to an 1897 business directory, one Charles Carmici owned the shop at 25…

Black and white photo, circa 1930s, of house against the Palisades, with a full load of laundry hanging, near the foot of Hackensack Plank Road. Note the '100 Steps' in the background. Photograph from the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.

Black and white undated photograph (from the 1930s) looking north from the tracks up Saint Lawrence Place to Hackensack Avenue. Note the Abbey Inn atop the Palisades. Photograph from the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.

Black and white photograph of 18th Street looking west towards the Palisades. From the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.

Undated black and white photo of West 18th Street looking towards Hackensack Avenue (West to East) Photograph from the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.

Black and white undated photograph of Hackensack Avenue and 18th Street. The house on the left belonged to George Roman, a Civil War veteran, general contractor and real estate investor. His house was the first Weehawken jail, moved from 11th Street…

Black and white photo, circa 1930s looking west on 19th Street in the Shades. Photograph from the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.

Mark Wright's notes from his 1966 conversations with residents of The Shades contain lots of information about people, places and events in old Weehawken.

9" x 11" black and white photograph of St. Lawrence Church and St. Lawrence Parochial school and 9" x 11" photograph of St. Lawrence Church looking north up Hackensack Avenue towards the Palisades..

William Lachenauer sent this image to the Time Machine with the following message: "Attached please find a newspaper clipping circa 1941 of the St. Lawrence Junior Boys Club. I scanned both the photograph contained within the paper and the back of…