Fun for NJ Folks (all welcome)

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

http://www.memory-lane.org/NewJerseyFacts.html

 

[JerseyJanice]

I doubt we are still the diner capital of the world. It seems like a lot of them around here have closed in the past few years.

 

[cglaura]

So true! Well actually, I did once on my way home from NC, and I had to ask someone for help

"You've NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas."

 

[snapppyd]

I loved Palisades Park when I was a kid.

 

[SeaSpray]

I love it!!

 

[czycropper]

I'm not originally from Jersey but I have lived here for 14 years, both of my DDs are Jersey girls & my DH is from Bergen County - love those facts!!!

I live in one of those top counties and I do the not having to pump my own gas , love eating at a diner, live in Central Jersey but we don't go to Belmar but to Long Beach Island, it took me a couple of years to stop saying beach and start saying "shore"

 

[JerseyJanice]

it took me a couple of years to stop saying beach and start saying "shore"

So you've learned to say that you're going "down the shore" and not say that you're going "to the beach." You've been taught well, grasshopper.

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

*sigh*

I love Jersey.

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

So you've learned to say that you're going "down the shore" and not say that you're going "to the beach." You've been taught well, grasshopper.

I have to say, if you live "down the shore," you actually "go to the beach" when you're ready to hit the waves.

 

[mlynn]

LOL!! I live with a 5 mile radius of 6 diners.

 

[JerseyJanice]

I have to say, if you live "down the shore," you actually "go to the beach" when you're ready to hit the waves.

Well, you can't expect a Bennie from Bergen County to know that.

LOL!! I live with a 5 mile radius of 6 diners.

Lucky you! Since The Forum Diner in Paramus closed, there's no where to get a decent breakfast anymore.

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

Well, you can't expect a Bennie from Bergen County to know that.



Lucky you! Since The Forum Diner in Paramus closed, there's no where to get a decent breakfast anymore.

All the diners moved south with the rest of the population.

My grandmother used to take me to diners with the jukeboxes in the booth. I used to love that.

 

[JerseyJanice]

All the diners moved south with the rest of the population.

My grandmother used to take me to diners with the jukeboxes in the booth. I used to love that.

That reminds me of something funny that happened many years ago.

Back in the day, we used to hit diners for breakfast at 3:00 a.m. after the bars and clubs closed. At this one place we frequented (The Parkview in North Bergen), my sister used to give the owner a hard time that the jukeboxes weren't loud enough. Remember--this was at 3:00 a.m. or later.

So one night we went in there and he ran over to our booth and stuffed napkins in the coin slot, saying that the jukes were all broken. She still argued with him though. I don't know how that man put up with so many drunk kids all the time. I hope he retired to a calmer life in Greece.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Being a former Jersey girl I loved it!

I could negotiate the circles and joghandles.
Had my favorite diners
Miss the sweet corn and tomatoes
My cousin actually knew what deli Joni Bon Jovi and his bros hung around after school
Have a box with bBamergers on it with some jewlerly that was my grandmas , ah nostalgia
Loved never having to pump my own gas. When we went to visit the family, my ds said, dad why arent you getting out o get the gas?
I am from Central Jersey - didnt go to Belmar but went to Manasquan alot!!

 

[luvmarypoppins]

I lost my post but I remember once in Korvettes I the daylights out of my mom. I got lost and ended up in the security office after someone found me.

 

[JerseyJanice]

I lost my post but I remember once in Korvettes I the daylights out of my mom. I got lost and ended up in the security office after someone found me.

If that was the Korvette's on Route 4, it's a Kohl's now. And if we are talking the same store, you should see the Bergen Mall across the highway now! It's like a whole other place. They even renamed it the Bergen Towne Center. It's sort of like an outlet center now since it has a bunch of high-end outlet stores.

And yes, the pedestrian bridge over Route 4 is still there.

 

[shinysparklybubbles]

All the diners moved south with the rest of the population.

My grandmother used to take me to diners with the jukeboxes in the booth. I used to love that.

I am pretty sure the silver diner in Cherry Hill still has them!

 

[Swank]

Other lesser known facts

Jersey Girls have the highest hair in the country.

The Pot Hole is the official state mascot

Most beach towns now offer high interest loans for beach badges

The Soprano's are fictional in name only

The speed limit is only a suggestion

Jerseyites are not allowed to pump their own gas because they would $%$&# it up somehow.

 

[JerseyJanice]

A funny Korvette memory--

My father took us there while my mother was at work and bought my sister a parakeet. And believe me--if my mother wasn't at work, there's no way a parakeet would have been brought into our house.

After a night or two of my brother and I "playing" with the parakeet, it died. I always liked to put doll clothes on pets. I remember trying doll hats and kerchiefs on the parakeet. (I was a wacky kid that way.) My brother (who is now an industrial engineer) was always devising things--he made the parakeet its own merry-go-round out of an doll carriage wheel. Boy, was my sister mad at us!

So my dad put the parakeet's body inside a glass pickle jar and brought it back to Korvette's. He plunked it on the counter and goes, "You guys sold me a bum bird!"

They gave him a new parakeet that my sister wouldn't let us anywhere near. That one lived for many years, much to my mother's chagrin.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

A funny Korvette memory--

My father took us there while my mother was at work and bought my sister a parakeet. And believe me--if my mother wasn't at work, there's no way a parakeet would have been brought into our house.

After a night or two of my brother and I "playing" with the parakeet, it died. I always liked to put doll clothes on pets. I remember trying doll hats and kerchiefs on the parakeet. (I was a wacky kid that way.) My brother (who is now an industrial engineer) was always devising things--he made the parakeet its own merry-go-round out of an doll carriage wheel. Boy, was my sister mad at us!

So my dad put the parakeet's body inside a glass pickle jar and brought it back to Korvette's. He plunked it on the counter and goes, "You guys sold me a bum bird!"

They gave him a new parakeet that my sister wouldn't let us anywhere near. That one lived for many years, much to my mother's chagrin.