Englewood Makes History

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  • Dae Bennett is a music producer. He created Hillside Sound Music Studio. Twenty years later he opened Bennett Studios in 2001. Dae is the son of musician Tony Bennett.
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  • Estelle Bennett was a singer and member of the Ronettes with her sister Veronica "Ronnie" Yvette Greenfield and her cousin Nedra Talley-Ross. They began singing at age fourteen. They eventually recorded a No. 1 hit song "Be My Baby" in 1963. The group broke up in 1967 and…
  • Bennigans is an Irish pub food chain. There was a restaurant in Englewood on 412 South Van Brunt Street.
  • Philip Lombardo was the boss of the Genovese crime family from 1969 to 1981. He was sent to jail once in the 1940s for narcotics trafficking. He lived in Englewood's second ward on Audobon Street for decades and retired in Flordia.Philip “Benny Squint” Lombardo (1908–1987) was…
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  • George Washington Benson is a jazz musician. He grew up playing guitar and began recording at a young age. He performed for several years with Jack McDuff. His first album was "The New Boss Guitar." He also worked with McDuff to release“It’s Uptown” and “George Benson Cookbook.”…
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  • The newspaper The Evening Record began using the name in the late 1890s. Located in Hackensack, Bergen County, the newspaper published daily for Englewood, New Jersey. It has gone through a number of name variations.
  • BergenPac is a performing arts center and school. The original theater was a movie theater that opened in 1926. That theater closed in 1973 but was reopened through the efforts of John Harms. The John Harms Center opened on October 10, 1976. The center closed on April 14, 2003.…
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