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Images Of America Downtown Paterson Edited by June Avignone Arcadia Publishing, an imprint of Tempus Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 0-7524-0937-9, © 1999 Available through Amazon.com. "Downtown Paterson is a nostalgic picture book with a few things to say . . . Affectionate and nostalgic treatment generally characterizes Arcadia Publishing's Images of America, a series of largely pictures-with-captions books on U.S. towns and cities, usually compiled by local writers and historians. Both elements are present in 'Downtown Paterson,' edited by journalist/poet June Avignone, and collaborators, but there are somber hues in the picture of the 'Old Silk City' that emerges." -- William Gordon, Newark Star Ledger