Does anyone remember just what year the Clam Broth House had to admit women - guess this is a question for NJ Memories - unfortunately very few subscribers to that list show much interest in Hudson County!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: RC To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House I hope that they replace it with a restaurant with decent food. The Clam Broth House hasn't served good food since the 1950's - 1960's ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House > > I hope they replace it. > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=2& > u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_re_us/clam_broth_house > > Famed N.J. Eatery to Be Torn Down > > Fri Aug 6, 2:23 PM ET > By STEVE STRUNSKY, Associated Press Writer > > HOBOKEN, N.J. - For more than a century, the Clam Broth House has been > nothing short of an icon in this waterfront city. > > Marlon Brando was said to have dined there while filming "On the Waterfront." > Frank Sinatra's mother was a regular. Woodrow Wilson bid farewell to troops > from the balcony as they shipped off to World War I, and he greeted them when > they came home. > > But the building is about to add a final, sorrowful chapter to its colorful > history: the wrecking ball. > > The Clam Broth House has been closed since May 2003, when cracks and bulges > in its brick facade prompted city officials to condemn the property. A judge > recently lifted an order blocking the building's demolition, and officials say > it could be razed sometime this month. > > "It's one of those places that generations remember," Bob Foster, director of > the Hoboken Historical Museum. "I remember once, talking to Pete Seeger, the > folk singer, and he told me he used to take his wife there to get seafood." > > In a mile-square city as packed with lore as it is with New York commuters, > the Clam Broth House has been one of Hoboken's most beloved institutions since > it opened in 1899, two blocks from the Hudson River waterfront. > > rest of story at this link: > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=2& > u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_re_us/clam_broth_house > > > > > > > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > Visit the Hudson County N.J. GenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhudson/ > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== Your donations to RootsWeb makes NJHUDSON possible. RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html