River View Inn

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Rutherford Avenue
Bridge
Clifton (Delawanna), NJ

Hines very rarely provided a specific street address. It was as if you were expected to wander up & down the noted road and if you had trouble, simply ask. In the current day of google maps and GPS, this can be a bit frustrating, especially in regards to the MIA restaurants such as the River View Inn. It doesn't help much that it happens to have an incredibly common name or that this area is now a rat's nest of highways. I will have to presume it is gone, unless someone has more info.

Hines: Open all year, every day except Holidays, noon to midnight. Special foods they serve are guinea hen with wild rice, duck, lobster Canton style, frog legs and other sea foods. Deep dish pies are favorites in the dessert line. Lunch 75¢ – $2.00; Dinner $1.50 – $2.00. Liquor served.

I did find 1 mention of it in a archive of a Lyndhurst newspaper from 1998. In it, an older fellow reminisces about growing up in the area and closes with:

"The best was meeting my wife, Margaret Mitchell, at Roosevelt School. We went to Roosevelt, Lincoln School and High School, graduating in June 1940. Joined the Navy in Dec. 1942; were married on 4-1-43 by the Reverend Dunn, minister of the Presbyterian Church on Stuyvesant Ave., with our reception at the River View Inn. We have been married 55 years, working on 56." : Ed (& Marge) McMickle

Thank you Ed, your account may be the only remaining record of the River View Inn besides Duncan Hines'.