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