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Posted on April 28, 2023 April 27, 2023

History Day Mahwah Museum Saturday 4/29 from 10:00am-4:00pm

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Mahwah NJ, Explore 11 different Bergen County Museums with just one ticket! Tickets are available in advance at the Schoolhouse Museum (Ridgewood), Abma’s Farm (Wyckoff), and here at the Mahwah Museum. You can also buy your tickets at the first museum you visit on 4/29. Tickets are good for all 11 participating museums.

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Posted on April 18, 2015 January 20, 2019

Sol Abrams, Palisades Amusement Park promoter, dies at 89

FILE PHOTO Sol Abrams in 1979

APRIL 17, 2015, 3:45 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015, 10:38 AM
BY JAY LEVIN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

Sol Abrams stopped at nothing to promote Palisades Amusement Park. If that meant having an elephant water-ski with a showgirl on the Hudson, so be it.

“Genius? I’d give him that honor,” Vince Gargiulo, who runs the Palisades Amusement Park Historical Society, said of Abrams, who died Wednesday at home in New Milford. He was 89 and the last surviving member of the park’s management team.

For 20-plus years, until the day in 1971 that the landmark attraction straddling Fort Lee and Cliffside Park closed for good, Abrams, the consummate PR man, dreamed up ways to get Palisades Amusement Park on the airwaves and into the newspapers.

Beauty contests? Check.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/sol-abrams-palisades-amusement-park-promoter-dies-at-89-1.1311828