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Vintage canvas THE RECORD, New Jersey Newspaper Paper Boy Delivery Bag. Features triple stitching and a 3" wide shoulder strap for comfort. Overall condition is really good considering its age and constant use. There are some spots and stains from years of daily use, but no rips or tear.
Please examine photos closely for details/quality/condition and ask questions before purchase. Ships from a smoke-free, pet-free home.
The Record (also called The North Jersey Record, The Bergen Record and formerly The Bergen Evening Record) is a newspaper in New Jersey, serving Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Passaic counties in North Jersey.
The Record was under the ownership of the Borg family from 1930 to 2016, and the family went on to form North Jersey Media Group, which eventually bought its competitor, the Herald News. Both papers are now owned by Gannett Company, which purchased the Borgs' media assets in July 2016.
For years, The Record had its primary offices in Hackensack with a bureau in Wayne. Following the purchase of the competing Herald News of Passaic, both papers began centralizing operations in what is now Woodland Park, where The Record is currently based.
The newspaper was first published as The Evening Record, on June 5, 1895, by Evan G. Runner. Based on Main Street in Hackensack, Runner had two investors initially, Frank Cook and George Alden, and went through many others until 1920. At that time, a group of eight investors bought the company, which had changed its name to The Evening Record and Bergen County Herald.
A paperboy was someone – often an older child or adolescent – who distributed printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle. In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th century, this was often a young person's first job, perhaps undertaken before or after school.
The number of paperboys has experienced a major decline. This is due partly to the disappearance of afternoon newspapers, whose delivery times worked better for school-aged children than did those of morning papers, which were typically delivered before 6 a.m. The numbers have also been affected by changing demographics, the availability of news and newspapers on the Internet, and employment laws (particularly the mid-20th-century ban of child labour).
