Places In Irvington That You Might Remember

1st Christian Church



1st. Congregational Church Of Irvington

22 Elm Place - old home of Vicki Pezza 72 and Tony Pezza 76.


40th St Playground









558 Lyons Ave. and Coit St.

Kathi Renyolds, Class of 73 and brother Keith, Class of 83. The building behind them is 558 Lyons Ave and Coit St. where they lived for many years. That corner apartment building & bar was directly across the street from Buffs Diner.

610 Styvesant Ave.

624 Lyons Ave. - old home of Al Sheets.

626 Lyons Ave. - old home of Gene, Joey and Mike Vargas

77 Sunset Strip
A&B Auto Radiators

A&P Supermarket



Abelson’s

Aberbach's Pharmacy
Abe's Produce Store (Chancellor & Kuna)
Ace Oldsmobile
Acme Supermarket (Later became The Phone Co. building.)
Aeroheat Fuel
AJ DeFlores Realtor
Alibi Lounge
Allied Tube Company
AM Barber and Beauty Supplies
AM Beauty Supply
American Aluminum Casting Company

AMVETS Ambulance Service
Andy's Sporting Goods
Apartments... does anyone remember the name of these apartments?

Apartments behind the Library and in front of the High School

Archbishop Walsh Girls School
Armel Ice Cream
Art Theater

Artie’s Candy Store

Note: The white house on the corner was 300 Myrtle Ave. where Theone, Ray and Wayne Giampino lived. The cross street was University. Across the street from Myrtle Ave. was Irvington Tech. Ray Giampino clarified to me that the corner store in the picture above was Arties back in the 50's, then became Johnnies in the 60's and Galluzzo's Pizzeria in the 70's. Thanks Ray for that great information.
Augusta St. School



Augusta St. leading to National Turners

Austin's Esso Service
B&A Tavern
B&T Go-Go
B.A.B. (Bare Ass Beach)

Babbits Grocery Liquor Store
Bain Electric
Ball St. and May St.

Ball St. Professional Building ...at 40 Ball St.

Baltic Conveyor
Bargain Fair Furniture
Beifus Buick & Opel
Beims Photography
Bell Telephone Building in Irvington
Belmont Auto Springs
Beneficial Finance Company
Bercik Liquors
Berkeley Apartments

Berkeley Terrace School



Berk’s Fashions for Women

Bershire Place and Union Ave. corner

Berkshire Construction

Bernheim and Goldsticker Funeral
Betz Bakery (Irv. Center)
Biefus Buik
Big Boy's Submarine Sandwiches
Big Joes Pizzaria
Billjo Construction
Bills Army and Navy Store
Bitzig Roofing Company
Blasi Civic Association
Bliss Termite Control
Blue and Gray Tavern

Blue Shutter Inn
Blue Star Tavern
Blum's Grocery on Clinton
Bnai Brith
Bob Oganowski's Gas Station & Speed Shop
Bob Ratsche's Head Shop
Bob Stanzione's ARCO Gas Station
Bob's Super Shell
Bostonian

Boy Scout Troop 208
Briar Hill Construction
Bridal House
Brothers Dry Cleaning
Buff's Diner
Buffy’s Bar
Burger Delight on New Street
Bus Drivers Hall
Bus Terminal











Cafferys Funeral Home

Camp Drugs, 18th Ave.
Camptown Bus Lines
Camptown Lanes and Billiards (top of Greens 5 & 10)
Campy's Pizzaria
Canadian Furs
Candy Store, 15th Ave.

Car Lot - 43rd and Chancellor



Cards Galore
Carey Chevrolet
Carl and Shirley's Pizza Restaurant
Carl's Bar
Carl's Service Garage
Carolina Drug Store
Carolina Meat Market
Carousel Toys

Carvell (next to Temple)
Casa Di Irvington Italian-American Foods
Casey's Bar
Castle Ice Cream ... became Castle Theater

Castle Products
Castle Theater









Cat's Corner Canteen at Chancellor and Madison
Center Typewriter
Central Home & Trust
Chanceller St. Motors
Chancellor Ave. ...close to Parkway overpass and Irvington General Hospital.

Chancellor Ave. School



Clinton Ave, and Ball Street

Clinton Ave. Building

Chancellor Ave. apartments by the Jewish Temple

Chancellor Ave. hill by Garden State Parkway overpass

Chancellor Bakery
Chancellor Lanes



Chancellor Laundry
Chancellor Park





Chancellor Theater

Chatterbox Lounge
Chester Ave. Apartments

Chevrolet Dealer
Circle Pharmacy
Civic Square

































Civic Square Playground (Center Playground)

Civic Square West apartments







Cleremont Ave.

Clinton Ave. and Stuyvesant Ave. close to High School ... there was a pharmacy on the corner

Clinton Ave. School





Clinton Cemetary (Alan A. Siegel, President since 1972)













Clinton Drugs Store in Irvington center

Clinton Florist
Clinton Milk Machine free carton of milk if you kick the machine
Clinton Square Auto Parts
Clinton Tire (Esso Gas Station)
Clock of Irvington

Club Embers
Club Navajo
Coachman Diner
Coit St. Grammar School

Community Building (Clinton and Linden)
Connie's Beauty Salon
Continental Barbers (Harry & Phil)
Copa Lounge
Cord Motors

Coronet (previously Club Ivanhoe)





Crazy Harry's Central Meat Market ( Chancellor Ave. )
Creeque Alley
Crescent Lane Apartments

Creter Vault Company
Cryans Night Club
Cubby Hole
Cue Stick Lounge
Custom Contractors
Dairy Queen next to the Brook





Dairyland Ice Cream, Artie Keiffer





Dan’s Market (Mt. Vernon Ave. & Rosehill Place
Dan’s Market was owned by the father of Eli Weiss (now Eli Trisker).
Eli was Class of 53
Dances at the Club Navajo hosted by "The Count".
Dan's Tavern
David Burr Clothing

Debbie DeVito Apartment

Decorators Den
Dellas Bakery
Demestre Safety Brakes Service
Dermotox Laboratories
Diadone Electric
Dietrichs Vending
Dimeo's Exxon Station - corner of Union Ave & Naden Ave.

Ditta Uniform Company
Don's Barn

Don's Diner





Don's Tavern
Dorn and Kirschner Music
Dotro’s Pizzeria (Myrtle Ave near Madison Ave)
Drakes Cakes
Earl's Sun Service Sunoco Products
Ed Miller's Lanes
Edna’s Bar
Edwin's Cake Box
Elks Lodge

Emiliani Supply Company
Essex County Park Commission (Summers, Irvington Park)
Fairscey's Sporting Goods
Falconi's Pizza
Fther and Son

Fan-Fair Toy Store (later became Watson Bagels)
Fire Tower 'Community of Opportunity'
Firemen's Tower and Police Pistol Range in Chancellor Park



First Christian Church

Fitzpatrick Roofing
Fletcher Lincoln Mercury
Florence Ave. School





Foodtown
Food Fair

Football practice fields for Irvington High.
Notice Matthew’s Field, Orange Park and the narrow strip of field between where the high school would conduct football drills.

Ford Dealer by Library
Forstner Chain Corporation of Irvington
Francis Chevrolet
Francovitch House

Frank Christella Roofing & Plumbing
Frank H. Morrell Field
Franklin Auto Body
Frenchie's Beer Garden
Friday Night Canteen at Chancellor Ave. School
Friedman Brothers Floors
Friedrich's Butcher Shop
Friendly's German Tavern. A guy named Adolph was the owner.

Fritz's Candy Store (Claremont Sweet Shop)

Garden State Lanes
Gardens of Paradise Florists
Gas Station

Gaylin Buick
Gelbands 5 and 10
General Investment
Gene's Gun Room
George's Pro Shop
Gerkowitz' Toy Store in Irv. Center
Getty Gas Station, Lyons Ave. across from Babbit’s

Giordano Trucking
Goldfinger’s

Grove Street Firehouse

Grove Street School

Goldfinger’s

Good Deal Supermarkets
Good Guys, Fabco Shoes, Irvington Pharmacy, Singer’s, Raff’s

Gorney and Gorney Mangers Funeral
Grand Union Supermaket
Green Terrace Park
Grossman Paper and Bag Company
Grove St.



Grove St. School
Grove Theater
Grubber's Clothing





Gruber's Citgo
Gus the Fat Guy from Olympic Park
Gus's Luncheonette/Diner



Haberle and Barth Funeral
Halpin's Tavern





Hank's Steak House
Harper Avevue Tavern
Harry & Phil's Barber Shop
Harry Stevenson Association
Harvest House
Hauseman's Funeral

Hawk “Bruce” Warshawsky’s House on Rutgers St.

Heinkels Used Cars
Henry’s Lucheonette

Herbert Chevrolet
High School Proms (Westmount Country Club in Wayne)

Hillside Auto Repair
Hirsch Shoes
HL Green’s Department Store
Home Liquors

Horton’s Delicatessen

House of Chrome
House of Lawrence Beauty Salon
House on 18th Ave.

Howard Savings Bank



Hymie's Candy Store
HyWay Bowling
Ice Skating on Irvington Park Pond
Industrial Section

Investor’s Savings Bank

Investor’s Savings ...on Mill Road

Irvington Animal Hospital
Irvington Cab Company
Irvington Center











































Irvington Center Painting





Irvington Check Cashing Service
Irvington Dodge
Irvington Esso
Irvington Exit, Garden State Parkway

















Irvington Fire Dept.





Irvington General Hospital





Irvington Herald

Irvington High Milk Machine

Irvington High School











































Irvington Motors

Irvington Motor Lodge

Irvington National Bank





Irvington Park

















Irvington Park Pond































































































































Irvington PBA No 29
Irvington Police Dept. (Public Safety Building)













Irvington Police and Fire Stations on Washington Ave.

Irvington Polish Home
Irvington Polishing
Irvington Public Library





































Irvington Public Library, Old Library and New Library



Irvington Red Cross
Irvington Rescue

Irvington Tech

Irvington Town Hall (old)

Irvington Town House Restaurant
Izzy's Grocery on Chancellor Ave.
J&J Oil Company

J.T. Castles Ice Cream  (Castle Theater)
Jabel Jewelers

Jaegar Florist
Jargella Pro Shop
Jeannie Graul house

Jewel Brothers Radio and TV Service

Jewish Temple on Chancellor Ave.

JFK / Max Deutsch Little League Field

Jimmy Buffs



















Jimmy Opdyke’s House, Claremont Ave.

Joe Nitti & Sons Air Conditioning
Joe’s Army and Navy on Mill Road

Joe’s Pizzeria (Vauxhall)
John's Deli
John's Italian Hot Dog House
John's Tavern
Josie's Pizza
Joyce's Tavern
Jules Candy Store
Jules Tap Tavern
K&R Tool
Kartzman's Deli
Kaufmen's Jewish Deli
Kempler Shoes
Ketz Pharmacy
Kiddie Town
Kiss Campers
Kleen Rite
Kleins Diner
Kless Diner





Knife Sharpening Truck
Krafte Camera... on Springfield Ave.

Krauser's Bakery
Kuhnen Travel
Lafayette Radio & Electronics
Larsen and Fish Realtors
LaTrotos Pizzaria
LBJ Electric
Lee Surgical Company
Lee Toy's Chinese Restaurant
Library Branch on Union
Lillly Blums Meat
Lincoln & Lyons Candy Store
Lionel Train Factory















Little Race Car Track
LL Ridgeway Enteprises, Inc.
Lofts Candies

Louie's Pool Hall (behind the Castle)
Luftig Cleaners and Tailors (owned by father of Mark Luftig, Class of 65)
Lyons & Union Candy Store
Lyons Ave. Apartments



Lyons Ave.

Lyons Ave. snowstorm in 1971. Thats Albert Shave of 624 Lyons Ave. shoveling.

Lyons Ave. and Lincoln Place

Lyons Den
Lyons Lanes
Lytwyn & Lytwyn Funeral Home
M&M Tire Service Company
M. E. Church

Mack's Long Bar
Madison Arms Apts
Madison Ave. School

Magic Fountain Ice Cream
Magley's Irvington Garage
Maglie's Gas Station
Main Tobacco Company
Major Music

Mallon Car Dealership

Maple Candy Store
Marie's Pizzaria
Marshall Apartments

Marshall Refrigeration
Martino's Pizzaria
Mary's Lunch
Matahorn Tavern

Matthews Field, IHS



























Max Balmen Motors
Maxon Pontiac
Mayer's Pharmacy
Mayfair Cleaner’s

Meals on Wheels Bus

Methodist Church on Union and Nye

McCrory's
McManus West End Tavern
Merkins Ice Cream Parlor
Michael Vee Barbers
Michael's Custom Kitchens
Mieles Sporting Goods

Mike the Milkman
Mill Road Bakery across from Kartzman's Deli
Mill Road Townhouse Apartments

Millwood Apartments
Mings Chinese Restauarant
Modern Tailors on Chancellor Ave.
Monte's Trucking and Moving
Montgomery St Playground
Moose Hall... on the left before the Garden State Parkway was built.



Moravek Roofing
Motionz Dance Club
Motor Club of America
Mt. Vernon Ave. School

Muellers Liquor Store
Mulligan's Pub
Municipal Court



Myers Butcher Shop (corner of Union & Laventhal)
Myrtle Ave. ...by Irvington Center

Myrtle Ave. School





National Turners



Nancy Walker house

Neissner's 5 & 10 on Springfield Ave.
New Apostolic Church on Orange Ave.



New Jersey Transit
New Tavern
New Yorker Tavern
Nick's Texaco
Nicholas Weber Realty

Nole's Lock
Norwood Tavern

Notty Pine Tavern
Nye Ave. and Augusta St. corner

Nye Ave. Parkway overpass



Nye Avenue Tavern
Nye Professional Building



Old City Hall, Old library, with 10-lane Underground Bowling Alley
Old Evergreen Lodge
Old Homestead
Old Jail & Police Department close to Bus station
Old Police Station
Olympic Park

































































Olympic Restaurant
One Hour Martinizing Cleaners on Chancellor Avenue
Orange Park



Oraton Parkway

Original Main Library
Ormos Diner
PAL Building



















PAL buildings on Union Ave. (old & new)
Pappas Food Market
Paprota Brothers Paints, Housewares, Electrical Supplies
Paramount Liquors
Park Pub
Parking Garage



Parkway Apartments







Parkway Billiards
Parkway Bowling Alley
Parkway Lounge
Parnes Dry Cleaners
Parnes Formal Wear
Pathmark Supermarkets
Pat's Service Center
Peter's Pub
Petty's Drugs

Phil & Ester's Candy Store

Ping Toy Chinese Restauarant
Polish American Sports Club
Pontiac Car Dealership

Pop Brennan's Bicycle Shop
Post Zenith Showroom
Pretzel Guys in Irv. Center, Eddie Carl
Price’s Esso Station

Professional Building on Union Ave. close to Nye



PSEG on Grove St.

Public Service Utilites 
Pulaski Savings, 18th Ave.
Quick Stop Car Radio



R&S Bicycle Store
Railroad Track behind Valley Fair

Raff’s

Rathskeller
Red Crab
Red Devil Tools







Redeemer Lutheran Church
Remote Control Boats on Pond
Revlon, Coit St.

Rex Barbers
Rexall Drugs
Reynolds Plumbing
Rezem Funeral Home

Richards Rambler of Union
Riegel's Meat Market
Rigley's Tavern next to Kartzman's
Robert Hall Clothing... also notice Major Music, Ormos Diner

Robert Miller house

Rose Jewelers
Rosenbaums Kosher Meat and Poultry
Roxy Drugs

Roxy Sweet Shop

Roy's Blue and Gray Tavern
Russomanno House, Nye Ave. and Augusta St.

S&S Kleins 5 & 10
Sach's Jewelers
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church

Sacred Heart of Jesus Grammar School

Safe Way Supermarkets
Sager's 1056

Sal's Barber Shop
Salamander Shoes

Sa Lee Irvington, Inc.
Sal’s Candy Store (corner of Orange Ave. and Madison Ave.)
Sal’s Home Improvement
Saladino Brother’s Candy Store (corner of May St. and Augusta St.)

Salvation Army

Sandy’s Service Center
Sanford Heights United Presbyterian Church
Sanford Theater
Sasson’s Youth World
Satterwhite (Minnie) Caterer’s
Savale Insurance Agency
Schmerel Brother’s Furs
Schrafts Pharmacy
Schneider's Hardware
Schuster's Luncheonette - Chancellor Ave.
- owned by the father of Ernie Schuster, Ernie was Class of 55
Scuffle Town
Semi-Pro Baseball Field near the Shooting Range
Seaboard Supply Company
Sears Roebuck and Company
Service Automotive and Truck Repair
Service Men’s Apartments ... for returning soldiers.

Service Men’s Club

Senior Citizens Apartments







Shadowlawn Nursery
Shahadi Rugs
Shapiro Furs

Sharpe Realty
Sherry Hill 744 Lounge
Shrafts Drugs Store
Siegel's Clothing Store
Siegel Opticians
Singer’s Sewing
Slot Car Racing
Smitty's Tavern
Solomons Sport Shop
Some's Travel Bureau Inc.
Spada's Deli
Spagnolia's Candy Store
Spartan Liquors
Spanish Harlem (Lyons Ave between Ball St & Union Ave.)
Speedway Esso Automotive
Spencer's Groceries
Spirit of 76
Spitalnicks Bowling Ball Clinic
Sportsman's Bar
Springfield Shell Auto Care
St Johns Ukranian Church
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
St. Leo's Church / School





St. Pauls School







Stadium Appliances
Standard Uniform Service
Staff Builders Temporary Personnel
Standard Motor Rebuilding Company

Standard Stainless
Standard Uniform Service
Standard X-Ray Sales, Company
Stanley Motors
Stasfs Broad Drugs
State Aluminum Distributors
State Realty
Stevenson (Harry) and Company
Stop and Eat (Joey's Pizzaria)
Stuffy’s
Stuyvesant Body and Fender Works

Suburban Cablevision
Surburban Trift Shop
Suicide Hill (Hospital Hall)
Sunoco Gas Station
Sunset Pub
Sun-Shade Company
Tabatchnick’s Jewish Deli
Tafts Cleaners
Tappins of Irvington
Tattle Tale Lounge
Tele-Pages
Terry Fabrics
Tesco Distributors
Terrill's Funeral Home
The 774 Club on Chancellor Ave.
The Bench Boys
The Brook

















The Establishment (head shop on Elmwood Ave. close to Jimmy Buffs)

The Methodist Church
The Sport Shoppe (ladies clothing store on Springfield Ave. a few doors up from Goldfingers)
Thom McAn Shoes
Thomas Cox & Son Stationery

Tierney’s Car & Truck Rental
Tiny’s Pub
Tiny Tots Playground
Tommy's Record Shop





Tony’s Corner
Towne Cadillac
Triangle Park







Trainer & Company
Transmission City
Tri-City Diner
Trinity Episcopal Church
Trolley Car, (in operation from 1890 till 1937, tracks were on Springfield and Clinton Aves)

Trumpore Plumbing & Heating
Turner Auto Driving School
Tuscan Dairy
Tyre Lodge No. 14
Uncle Sam’s Shoes
Underwood Mortgage & Title Company

Unemployment Office, Nye Ave.
Union Ave. and Nye Ave.

Union Ave. by Irvington Center

Union Ave. Apartments (Crescent)
Union Ave. Overpass

Union Ave. Parkway entrance

Union Ave. School



Union Hill Tavern
United Awning & Shade Company
United States Army Recruiter
United States Mattress Corporation
United States Post Office







United States Realty & Investment Company
United Trades International
Universal Automotive Distributor, Inc.
V&E Vaccums
Valley Fair







V&E Sales Company
Vanity Frocks
Variety Bazaar
Vermitox Laboratories
Village Auto Services
Village Bank of New Jersey
Village Diner
Village Pharmacy
Village Pizzeria
Vinnie's Candy Store
Vintage Vinyl Records
Visco's Sporting Goods Center
Vito's Pizzaria...corner of Clinton Ave. and New St. where Vito’s Pizza was. You can also see the old Clinton Ave. School ready for final demolition.

Vogue Fabric Mart
Vyn-A-Lum
Walker Drugs
Walter Zach Plumbing
Ward Ford Sales
Warner Aluminum Home Improvements
Water Watch Co. Inc.
Watson's Bagels
Weber-Valentine (Hudson Blue Print)
Weiland Drugs
Weiner Formal Wear
Wensel's Tavern
Wenzler Reality, Inc.
West End Tavern

West Side Screw Machine Products
Westcott Screw Machine Products
Whirlpool
Widerkeher's Hardware
Wig Village Boutique
William Peason Insurance
William’s Cosmetique
Wilner's Meat Market
Windsor Cleaners
Witness Hall (Jehovah)
Wolsten's Projector House
Wooley Fuel Company
Woolworths



Ye Yarn Shoppe
YK Merchandise
Yogi's Pizza

Can you name these places in Irvington ?