The hotel had a game room with billiard tables, also accommodations for card, domino and checker players. The Morris Canal ran near the eastern boundary of Montclair. The Montclair Weekly Journal of April 18, 1876, had the following to say about the Montclair Hotel, which stood on the southeast corner of Bloomfield Avenue at Valley Road : “In 1865 sold it to the present proprietor, who made extensive improvements, and lately refurnished it thoroughly, so that today it stands as one of the best appointed and best kept country hotels in the state.”
By 1888, there were not less than 125: “blacksmiths, five barbers, three bakers, three butchers, seven books and stationery, three carpenters, ten coal and wood, four carriage makers, three cigar and tobacco, three druggists, three dry good and millinery, five flour, feed and grain, three florists, three furniture, one fruit and vegetables, three grocers, eleven harness, two hardware, three hotels, two jewelers, three lumber and masons’ materials, one label factory, one livery stables, four laundries, two masons, seven newspapers, two newsdealers, two plumbers and gas fitters, five painters, six planing mill, one picture frames, one restaurants, two real estate, five shoes, five tailors, two upholsterers, two undertakers, one well drillers, two wheelwright, one.”īy the late 1920s, there were 232 stores, 15 garages, 19 barber shops, 12 real estate offices and 14 restaurants. Highlights of Samuel Watkins’ brief but extensive listing in “Reminiscences of Montclair” of Montclair businesses states that in 1880 there were about 40 storekeepers and businessmen engaged here in various occupations.
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