Jack Flax worked in a family-owned baby carriage store on 327 Springfield Avenue. The family business--Flax Baby Carriage Stores--was probably the largest of its kind in Newark, and Jack Flax touted himself as "The Baby Carriage King."

In our January 1939 Central High graduation yearbook "The Trylon," Jack signed my book with "Remember the Baby Carriage King--Jack Flax."

I did remember -- after the July 1967 riots -- his business was one of those looted and torched during the riots and the burned and gutted business remains appeared on the cover of TIME.