Looking Back
Bygone Favorites Circa1970
Besides serving as a go-to consumer guide , our Readers ’ Choice poll offers a snapshot of what we value as a culture . Just as this year ’ ssurvey includes favorite destinations forwi-fi , yoga , Pilates and pet grooming , time travelers from 1970 would want to find the best record store , and the topplacefor getting their film cartridges developed . Case inpoint : This c . 1970postcarddepicting three welllocatedUpper Montclair businesses . THE RECORD RACK billeditselfashaving “ over 2,000 record albums on display ,” but the mainstream vinyl record shop went the way of film-developer MOTO PHOTO , formerly locatedonBellevue Avenue . Still , businessescan adapt . PHOTO CULLEN moveddownthe block and expanded its services for the digital era , and THE CHEESESHOP became a luncheonette , eventually changing its name to Sandwich Theory . – CINDY SCHWEICH HANDLER
PHOTOS TAKEN BY KENT HALLANDER , OWNER OF PHOTO CULLEN . POSTCARD COURTESYOFHELEN FALLON
64 SPRING 2017 MONTCLAIR MAGAZINE