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===20th century=== In 1909, the Arcola Country Club and golf course was created in 1909 and the neighborhood by that name grew around it.<ref>Craffey, Jim. [https://www.arcolacc.org/About_Arcola.aspx How Arcola Came To Be - An Abridged History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227181256/https://www.arcolacc.org/About_Arcola.aspx |date=February 27, 2022 }}, Arcola Country Club. Accessed March 18, 2022.</ref> Farview Avenue, located at the highest elevation in Paramus, has a clear view of the [[Manhattan]] skyline.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1928/03/28/archives/flat-in-jersey-city-resold-to-investor-patrick-j-kennedy-acquires.html "Flat In Jersey City Resold To Investor; Patrick J. Kennedy Acquires the Comfort Apartment on Bergen Avenue. Acreage Deal At Paramus Two Yonkers Plots Are Included in Westchester Transfers—Building Projects."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722101938/https://www.nytimes.com/1928/03/28/archives/flat-in-jersey-city-resold-to-investor-patrick-j-kennedy-acquires.html |date=July 22, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 28, 1928. Accessed December 25, 2011. "Conrad Roes bought fourteen acres on the west side of Farview Avenue, Paramus, in Bergen County. The property is said to have the second highest elevation in the county and overlooks the Manhattan skyline."</ref> Paramus became one of the [[truck farming]] areas that helped New Jersey earn its nickname as the "Garden State".<ref>Satterthwaite, Ann. ''Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequence'', Yale University Press, 2001, p. 256</ref> By 1940, Paramus' population was just 4,000, with no town center and 94 retail establishments.<ref>Going Shopping, p. 256.</ref> Although the opening of the [[George Washington Bridge]] in 1931 and the widening of [[New Jersey Route 17|Route 17]] and [[New Jersey Route 4|Route 4]] (which intersect in southern Paramus), made the area accessible to millions, "it was not until the 1950s that massive development hit this section of northern New Jersey".<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/> During the 1950s and 1960s, Paramus, lacking any master plan until 1969, was redeveloped into two shopping corridors when its farmers and outside developers saw that shopping malls were more lucrative than produce farming.<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/> "It was a developer's dream: flat cleared land adjacent to major arterials and accessible to a growing suburban population and the country's largest city – with no planning restrictions".<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/> New York had a state sales tax, but New Jersey had none, so with the opening of Manhattan department stores in the [[Bergen Town Center|Bergen Mall]] (1957), the [[Garden State Plaza]] (1957) and [[Alexander's]] (1961), Paramus became the "first stop outside New York City for shopping".<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257">Going Shopping, p. 257</ref> From 1948 to 1958, the population of Paramus nearly quadrupled, from 6,000 to 23,000, while the number of retail establishments tripled from 111 to 319, and annual retail sales increased twenty-fold in nominal dollars, from $5.5 million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|5.5|1948|fmt=c|r=1}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) to $112 million (equal to ${{Inflation|US|.112|1958|fmt=c|r=1}} billion in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/> By the 1980s, when the population had increased slightly over 1960s levels, retail sales had climbed to $1 billion.<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/>
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