Yes she went to Becton, graduated in 96 . Carlstadt is tiny... I'd like to hear from someone from Secaucus for confirmation, lol.
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State pride is less of a thing up there...I lived in NY a loooooong 15 years (gosh was it really that long?) and not once did I see anyone fly the NY State flag...not once. Heck I can’t tell you what the NJ state song is (if there is one) but know all the words to the Texas one (it helps that it is played at every football game)
down here both are flown and many times just the Texas. One business known for its giant flags, cycles through the US, then Texas and finally the San Antonio flag (which is surprisingly pretty for a city flag)
Cant recall the NJ flag flown in many private properties. Both the NY and NJ flags are unremarkable to look at.
down here both are flown and many times just the Texas. One business known for its giant flags, cycles through the US, then Texas and finally the San Antonio flag (which is surprisingly pretty for a city flag)
Cant recall the NJ flag flown in many private properties. Both the NY and NJ flags are unremarkable to look at.
She was after me. I was 89. I moved to Monmouth County in 96, and when I said I was from Carlstadt, people would say Carteret? Carlstadt is very tiny.
PS - Listen to your wife -- she's right 😉
I think there’s only a handful of states where people are really into the state flag. Texas, Maryland, California, and Colorado are in that group, maybe a couple more.
When I lived in South Carolina, I saw a good amount of state flags—
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Flag of South Carolina
The state flag of South Carolina was adopted on January 28, 1861. The crescent symbol represents the silver emblem worn on the caps of South Carolina troops during the revolutionary war, and the background color matches the blue of their uniforms. Crescents were also a component of a banner...
It’s not a name of a NJ city. But anyone want to see how to pronounce this young lady’s name?
I noticed a lot of stAten island/brooklyn people have a hard time with the manalapan pronunciation. Something about it intermingled with their accents
They refer to it as the Republic of Texas afterall, lol. The only one of the 50 states to have had 4 different nation flags fly over it, I believe.
I want to say 4th or 5th grade for me too (in the mid-80s)....a deeper dive to county level on NJ geography combined with an overview of the other 49 states (not quite down to county level) + Puerto Rico.
But I'm not sure I'd have retained as much of it from just that time learning it in school if my brother and I weren't already pre-disposed to traveling and being early geography buffs on our own. We can both identify the 21 counties, 50 states, state capitals, etc.
We used to read the heck out of a really old world atlas that our dad picked up in a church auction for like a buck or two, it's still probably collecting dust somewhere in my parents' attic.
Yep, Neptune. Also at the Jersey shore, there's Point Pleasant and PP Beach....slightly different take on the convention as I believe both identify as Boroughs. Not sure if the smaller, denser PP Beach started as the original "nucleus" even if not necessarily central to or majority surrounded by PP just adjacent to each other (not a donut situation).
A couple Morris County examples are Chester (Borough and Township) and Mendham (Borough and Township), and there also used to be a Chatham Borough and Township up until the late 80s, I believe (including separate high schools) but the municipalities may have then merged into one and I think both HSs did too.
Somerset County has Bernardsville and Bernards Township as a slightly different combination.
As far as donut towns, prime example is definitely the Metuchen Boro/Edison Township pair. If it wasn't for NJ legend Thomas Alva and his lab in Menlo Park, I suppose there would have been a "Metuchen Township" instead of all of that which we've known as Edison as the inventor's namesake. Another similar donut example where the two names are specifically not the same is Flemington (Borough) and the aforementioned in a prior post, Raritan Township.
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yeah, I live in Uwchlan township, that took me a bit to get right.
Maybe not the hardest to pronounce, but the hardest to say with a straight face:
Blue Ball, PA
Intercourse, PA
And if you go from Blue ball to intercourse and keep going, you'll end up in Fertility, PA
Blue Ball, PA
Intercourse, PA
And if you go from Blue ball to intercourse and keep going, you'll end up in Fertility, PA
Six. That's where Six Flags come from. Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, CSA, USA.
Also, Florida has had five: Spain, France, England, CSA, USA.
Spanish West Florida was also part of the short-lived West Florida Republic, which stretched to Louisiana.
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Pretty phonetically it turns out
You CLEN
the Clen rhymes with pen
at least thats that way I say it......
Edit -by the way, I am an engineer not an english major so shoot me on the whole spelling phonetically thing....
This can be done at Jersey Shore, Pa
Another doughnut town is Jamesburg. Totally surrounded by Monroe Twp. Years ago everything revolved around Jamesburg, and Monroe kids went to Jamesburg High school. Then as Monroe grew in the 70's and 80's, Jamesburg HS closed, and Jamesburg kids went to the new Monroe HS. It's now time for everything to be incorporated into one municipality.
Actually, we'd have yet another "Raritan Township", which was incorporated in 1870 and changed its name to "Edison" in 1954. Metuchen was incorporated in 1900 but reference to the settlement can be found back to the early 1700's. Highland Park broke off from "Raritan" in 1905.
Hazlet down in Monmouth County also used to be called Raritan Township, until 1967.
My Mother was Jamesburg HS class of 75, but grew up in Monroe just outside of Spotswood. Smallest High School in the state. I believe 79 was the last class before it closed in favor of the new MTHS.
Rutgers Rockies, yes I think Texas wins for most flags. Texas was actually part of Spain, then France, and then Spain again. The funny thing is there were about 16 people living there for a long time. Now, people are moving there from all over America. Population is pushing 30 million, second biggest in the nation.
Point Beach and Point Boro...as they say when you confuse Highlands with Atlantic Highlands:
You: “Come on, what’s the difference?”
Them: “A BIG difference!”
Mendham...anyone who ran cross country or track in the early 80’s should remember how pretty the girls from Mendham were. It’s seemed that was the prerequisite...had to be really good looking.
So did Keith Jackson on ABC. LOL
They also say A-von instead of a-von. Usually adding the “by the Sea” part too. It’s good for profiling. 😉
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I think every state has its quirks. Buena Vista in Colorado is pronounced BYOON-a VIS-ta. Del Norte is pronounced Del Nort.
That's likely from generations of people not bothering to learn the proper spanish pronunciation than it is a quirk
From Monroe Twp. in Middlesex Country. Everyone from Monroe says "Mohnroe"....Everyone not from Monroe says "Munroe"......
E5, from the right side, from the left side, from the center, the profile is what it is. A camera can only take what it has to work with.
There's always NOORK Right in Essex Cty.And then there is HOE BOKEN. i have heard it corrected to HUB IK IN.
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