The Journal News. 11 Jan. 1987, Sun. Page 19. White Plains, New York
Service are to be held Monday for Charles Adler, 90, the longtime proprietor of a Haverstraw tavern, who died Saturday at his 15 Broadway home in the village.
Mr. Adler operated Henry Adler's Sons on Broadway, which was establisher by his father in 1880. The tavern made unique in the area by the absence of bar tool and a house rule against serving mixed drinks, was a popular watering hole of the working man going back to days of the Haverstraw brickyards.
"I've lived here all my life," Mr. Adler said during a 1983 interview at the bar with The Journal-News. "I was born in this building, I belong here and I'm going to die here."
Mr. Adler was 9 years old, on Jan. 8, 1906, when the village struggled against its worst disaster, a landslide that swallowed homes in a wide semicircle between Liberty and Jefferson streets. The area had been undermined by clay excavation for the brick industry.
At the time, school textbooks referred to Haverstraw as "the brick-making capital of the world," with much of the community's production supplying builders in New York City."
"The ground just opened up and the houses went down," Mr. Adler recalled of that snowy night when 19 people were killed as gas lines exploded and houses burned. "I was just going to bed when that happened. It shook the whole town."
Mr. Adler was a 50 year volunteer fireman in the village, serving with the General Warren emergency Co. No. 2.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and as a member of the North Rockland Selective Service Board during World War II.
Mr. Adler was born in the village on May 24, 1897, to Harry J. & Josephine Adler.
Survivors include a daughter, Helene Braziller, of New City, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
His wife, Grace (Rosenberg) Adler, died in 1966. A daughter, Muriel Adler Friet, and a son, Henry Adler, are also deceased.
Monday's services are to be held at 1 p.m.at the George M. Holt Funeral Home, 50 New Main St., Haverstraw. Burial is to be a the Baum Cemetery in Haverstraw.
Calling hours were scheduled from 7 to 9 tonight at the funeral home. Haverstraw firemen will hold services at the funeral home at 8 p.m.
The Journal News. 11 Jan. 1987, Sun. Page 19. White Plains, New York
Service are to be held Monday for Charles Adler, 90, the longtime proprietor of a Haverstraw tavern, who died Saturday at his 15 Broadway home in the village.
Mr. Adler operated Henry Adler's Sons on Broadway, which was establisher by his father in 1880. The tavern made unique in the area by the absence of bar tool and a house rule against serving mixed drinks, was a popular watering hole of the working man going back to days of the Haverstraw brickyards.
"I've lived here all my life," Mr. Adler said during a 1983 interview at the bar with The Journal-News. "I was born in this building, I belong here and I'm going to die here."
Mr. Adler was 9 years old, on Jan. 8, 1906, when the village struggled against its worst disaster, a landslide that swallowed homes in a wide semicircle between Liberty and Jefferson streets. The area had been undermined by clay excavation for the brick industry.
At the time, school textbooks referred to Haverstraw as "the brick-making capital of the world," with much of the community's production supplying builders in New York City."
"The ground just opened up and the houses went down," Mr. Adler recalled of that snowy night when 19 people were killed as gas lines exploded and houses burned. "I was just going to bed when that happened. It shook the whole town."
Mr. Adler was a 50 year volunteer fireman in the village, serving with the General Warren emergency Co. No. 2.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and as a member of the North Rockland Selective Service Board during World War II.
Mr. Adler was born in the village on May 24, 1897, to Harry J. & Josephine Adler.
Survivors include a daughter, Helene Braziller, of New City, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
His wife, Grace (Rosenberg) Adler, died in 1966. A daughter, Muriel Adler Friet, and a son, Henry Adler, are also deceased.
Monday's services are to be held at 1 p.m.at the George M. Holt Funeral Home, 50 New Main St., Haverstraw. Burial is to be a the Baum Cemetery in Haverstraw.
Calling hours were scheduled from 7 to 9 tonight at the funeral home. Haverstraw firemen will hold services at the funeral home at 8 p.m.
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