As we look ahead we must honor our past !
Posted in ironbound on Dec 25th, 2007
Connie Francis was born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero in the Italian Down Neck, or Ironbound, neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. She is considered the most prolific and popular female rock ‘n’ roll hit-maker of the early rock era — the late 1950s to the early 1960s.
Francis made her film debut in 1960 with Where The […]
Posted in ironbound on Nov 28th, 2007
“One of Newark’s finest old factories, the Murphy Varnish Company building in the Ironbound section, looms like an abandoned Georgian country mansion over the industrial landscape. Signs on its boarded-up exterior seem to anticipate the end of the still privately owned building: they alert firefighters to flammable materials on each floor…”
The above phrase was published […]
It is said the name Ironbound comes from all those train tacks surrounding this exotic neighborhood in Newark, NJ.
As much as that may be true, some of the tracks are no longer in existance but it is still Ironbound in a funny way because in this residential area you can find more nails on […]
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As we look ahead we must honor our past !
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