[Rumplemeyer]

My Mothers Father, Jim Trainor, ran the Motor Pool for Hague, Oh the stories he told. It was not that you were afraid, you just where better than that, poor didn't matter, you where better than that.

[AnAmericanMother]

Hague . . . one of the last of the old bosses . . .

. . . there was definitely a down side to his reign, but on the other hand you can see how the ordinary folks on the street in Jersey City might wish for those days back again.

[Question_Assumptions]

Absolutely. The one word that my Depression-era relatives who grew up in Jersey City keep mentioning because it's in such short supply these days is "nice". Not in the "be nice and tolerate everything" sense but in the people dressed well and women being able to walk home alone from Journal Square without an escourt in safety "nice" -- as in "a nice place to live".

[Question_Assumptions]

FYI, I got to experience some of what they mean by "nice" when I lived in Japan. It really put a lot of things into perspective for me.