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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
SINGAC, 12.5 miles (170 alt., 1,800 pop.), hibernates for three-quarters
of the year; its bungalow-lined streets are as empty and quiet as those of
any small village. But warm weather brings a spate of vacationing office-dwellers to swim and play handball on the banks of the murky Passaic;
their pursuit of a two weeks' summer transforms the town with holiday
magic, silk-trimmed shorts, Japanese lanterns, and ukuleles that can turn
Whose Sweet Baby Are You? into a lyric promise of love to last even on
the return to the city. The gray frame CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF HOLY
ANGELS is L. Opposite it, on a vacant lot (R), is a recently constructed
arched shrine of field stones with a life-size colored plaster image of Our
Lady framed by a large neon aura.
State 23 crosses the Passaic River at 12.7 miles.
At 13.2 miles, at a traffic circle, is the junction with US 46 (see Tour 7).
The road levels out through a flat district of roadhouses and hot-dog
stands, some designed with considerable ingenuity – rusticized shack-palaces, rambling Colonial Virginian manses, red and white doll houses –
architectural apexes of a hamburger civilization.
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