A Sopranos advertisement adorns the since demolished Mecca & Sons Trucking building outside the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City.
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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives"
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
1919 - 1972
This statue of Jackie Robinson, sculpted by Susan Wagner, was dedicated on February 26, 1998 in Journal Square.
On April 18, 1946, Robinson, a 26-year-old secondbaseman, took the field for the Montreal Royals against the Jersey City Giants, a Class AAA affiliate of the New York Giants, for Opening Day of the International League baseball season, to become the first African American player in the modern era of organized professional baseball. The game took place, appropriately, on a field known as Roosevelt Stadium, which was at the foot of Danforth Avenue at Route 440 in Jersey City, at a spot then known as Droyer's Point. The Giants sold 52,000 tickets for that game--more than double the stadium's seating capacity of 23,000. Booed mercilessly during his first plate appearance, Robinson went on to have four hits including a 3-run homer, with 4 RBI, 4 runs scored, and 2 stolen bases in Montreal's 14-1 rout. A year later, Jackie Robinson would break Major League Baseball's color line, when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives"
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
1919 - 1972
This statue of Jackie Robinson, sculpted by Susan Wagner, was dedicated on February 26, 1998 in Journal Square.
On April 18, 1946, Robinson, a 26-year-old secondbaseman, took the field for the Montreal Royals against the Jersey City Giants, a Class AAA affiliate of the New York Giants, for Opening Day of the International League baseball season, to become the first African American player in the modern era of organized professional baseball. The game took place, appropriately, on a field known as Roosevelt Stadium, which was at the foot of Danforth Avenue at Route 440 in Jersey City, at a spot then known as Droyer's Point. The Giants sold 52,000 tickets for that game--more than double the stadium's seating capacity of 23,000. Booed mercilessly during his first plate appearance, Robinson went on to have four hits including a 3-run homer, with 4 RBI, 4 runs scored, and 2 stolen bases in Montreal's 14-1 rout. A year later, Jackie Robinson would break Major League Baseball's color line, when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives"
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
1919 - 1972
This statue of Jackie Robinson, sculpted by Susan Wagner, was dedicated on February 26, 1998 in Journal Square.
On April 18, 1946, Robinson, a 26-year-old secondbaseman, took the field for the Montreal Royals against the Jersey City Giants, a Class AAA affiliate of the New York Giants, for Opening Day of the International League baseball season, to become the first African American player in the modern era of organized professional baseball. The game took place, appropriately, on a field known as Roosevelt Stadium, which was at the foot of Danforth Avenue at Route 440 in Jersey City, at a spot then known as Droyer's Point. The Giants sold 52,000 tickets for that game--more than double the stadium's seating capacity of 23,000. Booed mercilessly during his first plate appearance, Robinson went on to have four hits including a 3-run homer, with 4 RBI, 4 runs scored, and 2 stolen bases in Montreal's 14-1 rout. A year later, Jackie Robinson would break Major League Baseball's color line, when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
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The White Mana Diner, located at 470 Tonnele Avenue, was built as the "diner of the future" for the 1939 New York World's Fair (commemorated in the side panels) in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens. The futuristic art deco diner, touted as an "Introduction to Fast Food," was built by Paramount Diner of Oakland, NJ. Louis Bridges, who owned five "White Manna" diners across the state, purchased the diner at brought it to Jersey City, opening on June 2, 1946, offering ten-cent hamburgers. The second "n" in the name was dropped sometime in the 1980s. Carhop service to five a.m., begun in the 1950s, was discontinued in the 1980s. The White Mana Diner, however, still remains open 24 hours a day, reportedly selling 3,000 hamburgers a week. The exterior of the diner was altered with brick construction when a dining room was added to the circular grill area.
The current owner Mario Costa, bought the diner for $80,000 in 1979 from Bridges’ brother Webster, who had been renting to Costa but was was going to raze the building. Costa, who worked at the diner sweeping the floor and cooking burgers to put himself through high school and Jersey State College, decided to sell the diner and lot in 1996. However, when he discovered the buyer intended to demolish for a fast food franchise, he went to court and negotiated for the repurchase of the business at additional cost.
The Jersey City Historic Preservation Committee declared the diner a local landmark in 1997, which helps secure the preservation of the familiar building and the signage "HAMBURGERS SINCE 1946" and "CURB SERVICE."
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