Something new: Saving Washers

Stored in My Memory Bank: The Pink Pig, Dad’s Silver “Washers”

Dad was a carpenter, and each week he gave me the washers from his pay envelope. I’d plunk them onto my piggy bank. Yeah, that’s right, washers as in nuts, bolts and washers. He told me washers weren’t money and I couldn’t spend them on candy or toys. When we filled the pink pig, we brought them to the big, boring stone bank. They said when I turned 16, I could take the money out.

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Anthony throws a wrench at the Super Bowl madness

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My Super Bowl Sunday “Channel”: Dad

During one Super Bowl, I spent the evening changing the door knobs on all the doors in our old house. “That,” my daughter has said for 25 years, “is why none of them close.”

Who needs football to prove manliness? Men build stuff, use saws, hammers, nails, screwdrivers and pound nails. 

Me, I don’t use those electrical gadgets you find in the box stores these days. I use the hand-tools Dad left behind 33 years ago. The ones with his initials burned into the handles. He was a carpenter, and had a lot more practice, but I can still hit my left thumb pretty good. ...

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Brookdale Soda then and now

Or thanks to The Record columnist Bill Ervolino for contacting us about our favorite childhood beverage, Brookdale soda.

We talked his ear off at the mention of Brookdale soda.

We are mentioned in his story Then and now: Memories of Brookdale soda still fizz within its fans.

The newspaper also used one of Anthony's photos, with permission, of course.

The column referred to our Brookdale soda blog.

No mention was made of our classic story Memories of Brookdale soda. It appears in A Father's Place and Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey.

Anthony's World is Back in Business

Since at least  mid-September certain of our web sites have been down or inaccessible or both. In the last few weeks a few more of our web sites went down.

Turned out The Nutley Sun did a great story on web sites preserving local history and included information about our sites Old Nutley and Nutley Sons Honor Roll. That's about the time we noticed the pages were gone. Disappeared. Invisible.

One of many entertaining books you should own.

Also disappeared were Anthony's World, Uncle Tonoose and Travels With Tonoose, and there was no way to get them back, no way to contact the web host and yada, yada, yada.

Well, finally, this past week or so, we were able to relocate and recapture most of the sites. It doesn't look like Uncle Tonoose and Travels with Tonoose will be back any time soon.

You'll still have the archives at Uncle Tonoose the blog. You can waste a lot of time enjoying years worth of posts there.

So, we're glad that Anthony's World is back, along with Old Nutley and Nutley Sons Honor Roll. Please have patience as we wade our way through thousands of pages checking links and looking for photos that didn't get posted along with the pages.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to support the web sites, please buy a book or two for yourself and a few as gifts - thanks.

- Anthony's (back in the) World

Hurricane Sandy

Better than the ice cream truck!

It only took about five minutes for Verizon Fiber Network Field Technician Miguel Jackman to restore our FiOs Internet, TV and house phone service after five days of being without. It seems the original rechargeable battery had out-lived its lifespan.

Our wireless was booking before he got the last screw in place. The over-worked tech was cheerful, pleasant and accommodating.

He's what you'd hope all your service people were like. Heck, you'd wish everyone you knew was a sociable as Jackman who works out of the Verona Work Center.

Being without Internet for most is a mere inconvenience, but when you work online from home it can result in being out of work. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I was able to work out of the office of Dr. Andrea Buccino in Cedar Grove where there was power, heat and wireless service. The good doctor also invited her patients to bring in their cellphones to charge up while they were being treated, and to use the office wi-fi during their wait.

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Nutley hopes to stop vandalism at memorial

There are reports that teenagers are hanging out and skateboarding at Nutley's World War II Memorial on Booth Drive.

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Bringing Nutley history to life

We want to thank The Nutley Sun for including our OldNutley web site in a story about preserving the town's history. 

The Old Nutley web site crashed the day the story ran. We've included the link in the event we can get it up and running again.

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Websites bring Nutley history to life
NorthJersey.com
The site features Nutley parks and recreational history, as well as biographies. "I hope people are touched like I was. [I want them to] know what these people did for our town," she told the Sun. Osieja is an instructional technology teacher at the ...
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