Bloomfield History: Township Story and Archives

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Bloomfield has four "centers": 
  • Bloomfield Center or simply "The Center", (see pictures below) in the vicinity of Bloomfield Avenue and Broad Street.
  • Brookdale Center, in the vicinity of Broad Street and Watchung Avenue;
  • North Center, on Broad Street from Belleville Avenue to Bay Avenue;and
  • Watsessing Center, in the vicinity of Dodd Street, Orange, Street, and Watsessing Avenue.
 
If you can provide early images of North Center or Brookdale Center, please contact us.
 
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Miscellaneous Businesses
 
Job Haines Home for Aged People, about 1907, corner of Watsessing and Bloomfield Avenues. This facility, still in operation today, was expanded in 200_. The embankment shows the original elevation of Bloomfield Avenue (previously known as the Newark and Pompton Turnpike); this section was lowered about 1889 to produce a more level road surface.
 
 
 
Club Evergreen, about 1939. This nightclub, an expanded Manley family residence, was operated by ________ from [1939] to [1945]. [It was destroyed by fire after it was abandoned]. Note the old-style phone number: Bloomfield 2-4334.
 
 
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