HOBOKEN LOSES "MAXWELL'S"

 

 

 

 

Opened	August 1978
Renovated	July 26, 1998

Maxwell's, a Hoboken rock institution, to close at the end of July...

WTF?

I remember as a kid I wasn't allowed to cross into Hoboken because it was, according to my mom, full of trash. I gotta say the population was sketchy at best. Later, when I was old enough to drive I noticed that "trash" was turning to trendy and the rest is history. Today, I think I'm considered the trash -lol.

(FROM NJ.COM NEWS ONLINE):

Maxwell's, the Hoboken corner restaurant and rock club with an international reputation, is closing its doors at the end of July.

The lease to Maxwell's, which has been at the heart of the rock scene in Hudson County for decades, is up at the end of July. But the decision to close the club at 1039 Washington St. isn't the landlord's.
"We were offered a renewal with rates that weren't necessarily onerous," says Todd Abramson, the club's booking agent and co-owner.

"But after much thought, given the changing nature of Hoboken and the difficulties of trying to run a business in this town, we decided it was time."

Maxwell's, says Abramson, will invite back some old friends to finish its remarkable run.

"On July 31, I think we're going to go out the way we came in — with the band 'a'." a, which featured members of the Bongos and Glenn Morrow, who'd later found Hoboken's Bar/None Records, was the first act to ever take the stage in the restaurant's back room. (The Bongos will also perform on July 31.)