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From: RC <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 12:48:41 -0400
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I hope that they replace it with a restaurant with decent food. The Clam
Broth House hasn't served good food since the 1950's - 1960's


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Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House


>
> I hope they replace it.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=2&;
> u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_re_us/clam_broth_house
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> Famed N.J. Eatery to Be Torn Down
>
> Fri Aug 6, 2:23 PM ET
> By STEVE STRUNSKY, Associated Press Writer
>
> HOBOKEN, N.J. - For more than a century, the Clam Broth House has been
> nothing short of an icon in this waterfront city.
>
> Marlon Brando was said to have dined there while filming "On the
Waterfront."
> Frank Sinatra's mother was a regular. Woodrow Wilson bid farewell to
troops
> from the balcony as they shipped off to World War I, and he greeted them
when
> they came home.
>
> But the building is about to add a final, sorrowful chapter to its
colorful
> history: the wrecking ball.
>
> The Clam Broth House has been closed since May 2003, when cracks and
bulges
> in its brick facade prompted city officials to condemn the property. A
judge
> recently lifted an order blocking the building's demolition, and officials
say
> it could be razed sometime this month.
>
> "It's one of those places that generations remember," Bob Foster, director
of
> the Hoboken Historical Museum. "I remember once, talking to Pete Seeger,
the
> folk singer, and he told me he used to take his wife there to get
seafood."
>
> In a mile-square city as packed with lore as it is with New York
commuters,
> the Clam Broth House has been one of Hoboken's most beloved institutions
since
> it opened in 1899, two blocks from the Hudson River waterfront.
>
> rest of story at this link:
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=2&;
> u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_re_us/clam_broth_house
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