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Here are some things about New Jersey that should give you reasons for remembering and maybe sharing some thoughts and stories with your family. For non-Alumni, if you've ever lived in Jersey you'll appreciate this!!!
New Jersey is a peninsula
Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida
New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas
New Jersey has more racehorses than Kentucky
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba
New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US
New Jersey has the highest cost of living
New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the "Diner Capital of the World"
New Jersey is home to the original Mystery Pork Parts Club (no, not Spam) Taylor Ham or Pork Roll
Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian sausage w/peppers and onions
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius
New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P Holland
New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns; some of the nation's most famous Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch, Cape May
New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country
New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals
Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy
New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production (and here you thought Massachusetts?)
Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first brewery in America, opened in Hoboken
New Jersey rocks! The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah, in 1940
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth Nearly 80 percent of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in Newark), Liberty International
George Washington slept here
Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington
The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ, laboratory
We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs
The first seaplane was built in Keyport, NJ
The first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ
The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ
New Jersey was home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City
The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on its playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City
And, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world, not to mention salt-water taffy
New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey, in the Watchung Mountains
New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world (Union, NJ!!!)
New Jersey had the first medical center, in Jersey City
The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway highway
NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson(Holland Tunnel)
The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra
The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1869 (Rutgers College played Princeton)
The first drive-in Movie Theater was opened in Camden, NJ, (but they're all gone now!)
New Jersey is home to both of "NEW YORK'S" pro football teams!
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ
The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj Thomas Armstrong
All New Jersey natives Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifah, Susan Sarandon, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Linda McElroy, Eileen Donnelly, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Tom Cruise, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DeVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Joe Piscopo, Joe DePasquale, Robert Blake, John Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral WmHalsey,Jr, Dave Thomas (Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Kelly Ripa, and, of course, Francis Albert Sinatra and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino
Bob Meade adds; "The Great Falls in Paterson, on the Passaic River, is the second highest waterfall on the East Coast of the US"
You know you're from Jersey when
You don't think of fruit when people mention "The Oranges"
You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags
A good, quick breakfast is a hard roll with butter
You've known the way to Seaside Heights since you were seven
You've eaten at a diner, when you were stoned or drunk, at 3 AM
You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery
At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen, and you know the town Jon Bon Jovi is from
You know what a "jug handle" is
You know that WaWa is a convenience store
You know that the state isn't all farmland
You know that there are no "beaches" in New Jersey--there's the shore--and you don't go "to the shore," you go "down the shore" And when you are there, you're not "at the shore"; you are "down the shore"
You know how to properly negotiate a circle
You knew that the last sentence had to do with driving
You know that this is the only "New" state that doesn't require "New" to identify it (try Mexico York ! Hampshire-- doesn't work, does it?)
You know that a "White Castle" is the name of BOTH a fast food chain AND a fast food sandwich
You consider putting mayo on a corned beef sandwich a sacrilege
You don't think "What exit?" is very funny
You know that people from the 609 area code are "a little different"
Yes they are!
You know that no respectable New Jerseyan goes to Princeton--that's for out-of-staters
The Jets-Giants game has started fights at your school or local bar
You live within 20 minutes of at least three different malls
You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers
Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony
You know the location of every clip shown in the Sopranos opening credits
You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall
You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights, and people from Central Jersey go to Belmar, and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood It can be no other way
You weren't raised in New Jersey--you were raised in either North Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey
You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state
You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, Bamberger's and Orbach's
You also remember Palisades Amusement Park
You've had a boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries
You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February
And finally, You've NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas