Englewood Makes History

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  • Robert Wides was the owner of Wides Liquor. The store was opened by his family in 1932.
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  • Wides Liquor was a liquor store on Wides Corner, the intersection of Lafayette Place and Englewood Avenue. The store was owned by the Wides family since 1932. Robert Wides owned the store in the 1970s.
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  • Wides Corner is at the intersection of Lafayette Place and Englewood Avenue. The corner became a concern for the community due to loiters. Drug and alcohol abuse were a problem at the corner.
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  • Winton J. White was an educator in Englewood. He began as a mathematics teacher at Englewood High School when he moved to Englewood in 1907. In 1918 he became the superintendent of the Englewood School System. He was also an athletic coach and the Winton J. White stadium was…
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  • designed Hetty Green's home

  • Sherman White was a basketball player. He grew up in Englewood and attended Dwight Morrow. He got into Long Island University on an athletic scholarship in February 1948. There was a point-shaving scandal occurring that White joined by the end of his senior year. Salvatore…
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  • Westmoor Gardens was built in 1981 as a Section 8 New Construction project under the Englewood Housing Authority.
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  • Dr. George R. West, Jr., born September 27, 1925, in Englewood, New Jersey, was the son of George R. West, Sr. and Ruth Brown West. A lifelong resident of Englewood, he became a widely recognized and respected member of the community whose life reflected service,…

  • West Side Presbyterian Church was a cornerstone of Englewood’s civic, spiritual, and cultural life for more than a century. Founded in 1896 as the West Side Union Chapel, the congregation first worshiped in a modest building known as Dwight Chapel at the corner of Palisade…
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