Clifton: The Boomtown Years

by Philip M. Read

Overview

The dawn of the 1950s signaled a boom time for many American cities, flush with new families in the years after World War II. In Clifton, founded in 1917, far-flung western farms were transformed into a new suburbia. The pace of growth was so fast that, decades later, one official would bluntly say, "Clifton wasn't planned. It just happened." Decades earlier, there had been a false start. In Clifton's Allwood, a development of a promised 4,500 Tudor-style homes, construction was interrupted, as elsewhere, by the onslaught of the Great Depression. But the boomtown years would come. People who called this 12-square-mile town home were a reflection of the times and swelled with pride as they cheered the high-energy, high-stepping Clifton Mustang Band and as they watched the 1967 jubilee parade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738549569
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	03/07/2007
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Philip M. Read, a graduate of Boston University and long-time journalist, is the author of Clifton, also in the Images of America series. In Clifton: The Boomtown Years, he takes the reader on an entertaining trek with many rarely seen photographs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     6
Introduction     7
The Good Old Days     9
Suburbia Born     35
Road to Boomtown     47
Showband of the Northeast     69
Jubilee     77
The 1960s and Beyond     87