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From: RC <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 15:32:13 -0400
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No, the bar was not in the dining room.
There was a separate entrance for the bar on Newark.
As you entered, the bar was on the right and there was a smaller "bar" on the left where food could be bought. On this "food bar" there was usually a large turkey, beef, and what looked like a coffee urn but contained steamers. The urn had a spigot at the bottom (like a coffee urn) from which any patron could pour clam juice (I remember at least once having too much beer along with too much clam juice followed by all of it leaving me via the same orifice into which I had put it).
The room had one of those old-fashioned floors that was made of small tiles, and as people consumed plates of steamers tradition required that all of the clam shells be dumped on the floor. By late evening you were ankle deep in shells as you consumed your beverage(s)
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From: L&R Foster
To: ; RC
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House
Guess you are right but I thought that years ago (meaning 50+ the bar was in the dining room). And not only Jersey City but Bayonne too did not allow women in the bar.
----- Original Message -----
From: RC
To: L&R Foster
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House
I'm not sure what year it was but, as far as I know women were always allowed in the restaurant section. Women weren't allowed in the bar - as was the case in all of Jersey City. If you remember, if a bar in Jersey City wanted to serve women it had to have a separate section that served food; women were not allowed in the bar section (except, I think, on New Year's Eve).
----- Original Message -----
From: L&R Foster
To: RC
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House
Does anyone remember just what year the Clam Broth House had to admit women - guess this is a question for NJ Memories - unfortunately very few subscribers to that list show much interest in Hudson County!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: RC
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House
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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To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:09 PM
Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Clam Broth House
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> 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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