A short public service documentary about the history of Hoboken prepared by PSE&G in the early to mid-70's to celebrate the conversion of the Keuffel & Esser Building (The Clock Tower Building) into family housing.
I was born in Hoboken back in 1967. I went to school there and live in the projects. I had so much fun. My grandfather lived in clock towers. I live down the street from where Frank Sinatra was born. Much diversity of culture. 15 minutes from Manhattan. As a child I watched him build the twin towers from my living room window on the ninth floor. I am 54 and I live in North Carolina. But in my dreams I am still in Hoboken.
I recently moved from Hoboken to Ridgewood nj to go to high school. I had lived in Hoboken for 15 years of my 16 years of my life. I still visit pretty much weekly but I really wish I could walk around Hoboken when it was just being built because I find this history so fascinating
I was born in Hoboken back in 1967. I went to school there and live in the projects. I had so much fun. My grandfather lived in clock towers. I live down the street from where Frank Sinatra was born. Much diversity of culture. 15 minutes from Manhattan. As a child I watched him build the twin towers from my living room window on the ninth floor. I am 54 and I live in North Carolina. But in my dreams I am still in Hoboken.
Since 1977,gentrification has changed Hoboken completely,it is now West Manhattan,the rents are slightly cheaper than in Manhattan,the yuppies have taken over the town.
My great grandparents, August Bremer and Bertha Erxmeyer, received their Confirmation in the German Evangelical Church (6th St.) in 1874, conferred by Pastor Leopold Mohn. August Bremer had a paint store in Hoboken in the 1880’s. I have a picture of it.
click on the following site, a few scrolls down and you will see the store .. my great-grandmother standing. August Bremer's store, my great-grandfather. www.maggieblanck.com/Blanck/Berthe.html
Wow I grew up in Hoboken, my grandparents landed there from Ireland, had a brownstone on 9th and Bloomfield. This really brought back memories I was 11 yrs old when clock towers was revived, I always thought it was the fancy place to live in town.
