A Newark Memory Lane

Newark's pride and Joy, the sitting Lincoln, by Gutson Borglund, who also created Mt. Rushmore and many other famous sculptures all around America. Trust me, you don't want to read this guy's bio. You've been warned.
The sitting Lincoln is south on Market, past Bamberger's. That's the Essex County Courthouse, behind Abe.

 Wednesday Shopping
(see pic below to orient and illustrate the directions)
We'd meet Mom under the Bamberger's clock at 5:30 - one block south, on the right, where we spent most of the evening. An aunt, Dorothy Rice, worked at Bam's. She wasn't a sales person, she worked in an office, but we stopped to stay hello. (I think she got us 'deals' on stuff, but I'm not sure.)Anyway, her son was in the Navy during the war; he was on a PT-Boat! I thought that was super cool!.
We always stopped at Nedick's for a 'small orange', their specialty drink. Mom would occasionally buy some chocolates at Loft's, but Jim and I had to be on out best behavior to win this treat. Directly above Loft's was a Chinese restaurant; we had dinner there or at Matthew's, a small counter- restaurant across the street. I always had chicken egg drop soup - I liked the sound of it - at the Chinese place and a hot roast beef sandwich at Matthew's - open-faced with gravy on top and a side of green beans. A couple of waiters always hit on Mom, they would offer to comp our meal, but Mom never went for it. By the way, I thought  the roast beef sandwich was something rich people ate!

On the north side of Broad, on the left, was a men's haberdashery - American Shops -- the Newsreel Theater and the Jersey Central railroad. Phil Rizzuto and Gene Hermanski were part owners of American Shops, but I never saw them there - and I really looked!

On Market Street north on the left was the Paramount Theater and the Newark Evening News offices. The Paramount had two balconies, the News was the city's premier paper. Our grandfather told us 'They sell our News on the streets of New York'.

Penn Station was further down Market. Then came 'Down Neck', Krug's Tavern and Ruppert Stadium, home of the Newark Bears, the Yankees AAA farm club. The area was called either the Ironbound - it was flanked on two sides by two railroads - or 'the Neck' because a bend in the bordering Passaic River resembled a neck.

If anybody can add to this, please do.

Charlie Fusari vs. Rocky Graziano - waddaya know about this guy?