{"id":275,"date":"2008-05-25T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2008\/05\/25\/275\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T22:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T03:31:55","slug":"275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Memory Lane: Main Street, Passaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a nostalgia trip today, to Main Street in downtown Passaic.  This was where my mother and father used to shop back when I was a kid.  The first of the big highway malls were just starting out at the time (around 1962-63).  We eventually took to the malls, with all of our fellow suburbanites, leaving Main Street to the poor and working-class folk of urban Passaic.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, Main Street is still there, as can be seen in the pix below.  It looks and sounds quite a bit different today; Spanish language and Latin music fill the air, and the stores are certainly more colorful looking, if a bit more raffish.  The big office building with the funny tower on the top is empty now, awaiting an uncertain future.  My mother once worked there.  The YMCA and Salvation Army are also still there, as can be seen.   You also see the usual hotel for urban transients. The fancy restaurants have been replaced with fast food and &#8216;adult entertainment&#8217; bars.  And the last movie theater (the Montauk) has bitten the dust; even porno couldn&#8217;t sustain it.  Nonetheless, it&#8217;s nice to see that Main Street still has a pulse.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/dpas1.jpg\" \/>&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/dpas2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/dpas3.jpg\" \/> &nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/dpas5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/dpas4.jpg\" \/> &nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/dpas6.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a nostalgia trip today, to Main Street in downtown Passaic. This was where my mother and father used to shop back when I was a kid. The first of the big highway malls were just starting out at the time (around 1962-63). We eventually took to the malls, with all of our fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}