Nystrom's

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Approximate Site: Riverside Mall
Route 4
(North) Hackensack, NJ

Hines: Open all year, 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. except Christmas. You can get a snack or a regular meal in this Colonial type of restaurant. Try their apple pie and coffee. Lunch and Dinner, reasonable.

I suspect this restaurant was somewhere near the Riverside Mall in, what was considered, "North Hackensack." Built in 1936, it boasted the latest comforts including air-conditioning and soon became a very popular eating spot for dinner as well as banquet events for local organizations and clubs. Nystrom's also featured a soda fountain shop with home-made ice cream for which folks would come from all over the county. Not sure when it closed or was torn down, if anyone has more info on that...

Very recently Ed Flynn of northjersey.com posted an article on the soda fountain's of Jersey's past. In it, he reminisces about Nystrom's as well as other popular spots. A fun read: check it out.

Additionally, I discovered this piece by way of GoogleBooks. From Prominent Families of New Jersey, by William Starr Myers, published 1945 (just 2 years before my D.H. guide!)

NYSTROM'S RESTAURANT
As manager of Nystrom's Restaurant, on Route 4, North Hackensack, Lucile Nystrom operates what is recognized as one of the leading eating houses in this region of New Jersey.

Miss Nystrom has taken over complete management of Nystrom's Restaurant in the absence of her brother, Captain Marden Roscoe Nystrom, former manager until he entered the army on May 1, 1942.

Nystrom's Restaurant was established and began operation on July 15, 1936. Captain Nystrom had charge of the erection of restaurant building and all preliminaries to its opening. All modern conveniences were established by Captain Nystrom, including air-conditioning and sound-proofing apparatus. Captain Nystrom is a graduate of Ridgefield Park, NJ High School, of the Agricultural College in Cornell University, and hold's a master's degree from Columbia University. Following his education Captain Nystrom was successively employed as research worker in the Port Authority of NY and then in accounting of the R. H. Macy & Company for eight years prior to the opening of the restaurant.

Nystrom's Restaurant was established and has continued to the present to serve the best possible foods at very popular prices. This was the ideal of Captain Nystrom and has continued under Lucile Nystrom's operation.