What has disappeared from the Jersey landscape ?
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Live 2 miles from old Jungle Habitat and some people are convinced they still hear the animal noises !
Great list too. Briken Dairy in Hillsborough. Nina's Pizza had a large calzone that would barely fit in a regular pizza box.
The flocks of gulls that darkened the sky around the landfill near Giants Stadium. Cool to a 10 year old. Also marveled at the endless lines of garbage trucks lined up to dump their loads. Don't miss the smell. The Pumping Station mural on Water Street. Sadly gone, all the wooded and open space along US-22 west of 287, and up and down 202/206 (and that was twenty years ago.) All the video arcades I frequented in the late 70's/early 80's. Same with Put-Puts. Only one I'm aware of that is still around is the one on RT-57 near P'burg.
Haha. Wasn't goofing on ya, just thought maybe it was a nickname or had a backstory.
Fun thread, btw.
Howard Johnsons
Pier Pub in Long Branch
block buster video
The old Highlands Bridge- complete with kids jumping
Ice boat racing on the navesink
Ice skating in ponds (global warming)
Old wagon farm in Hazlet
Tices, Van Ripers and Dipieros in (farms) in Bergen County
The Army base complete with guards and Barb wire at the end of Sandy Hook (Fort Hancock)
Nike......missle sites ringing NYC.
People out in their yards.
Maxwell House Coffee Factory Hoboken
Clam Broth House -Hoboken
Pier Pub in Long Branch
block buster video
The old Highlands Bridge- complete with kids jumping
Ice boat racing on the navesink
Ice skating in ponds (global warming)
Old wagon farm in Hazlet
Tices, Van Ripers and Dipieros in (farms) in Bergen County
The Army base complete with guards and Barb wire at the end of Sandy Hook (Fort Hancock)
Nike......missle sites ringing NYC.
People out in their yards.
Maxwell House Coffee Factory Hoboken
Clam Broth House -Hoboken
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Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips
American Motors (AMC used to be a car company now it's a movie theater)
American Motors (AMC used to be a car company now it's a movie theater)
Bullwinkles was on Hamburg Turnpike across the street from the bank at the railroad tracks. Riverdale Hardware was next door. There was a huge stuffed moose head on the wall and I believe the owners opened another one in Hawthorne and brought the moose with them.
...how about sandlot/ playground sports overall? Growing up we played organized sports and had our own 'unofficially official' neighborhood teams that would throw down friendly yet spirited 'challenges' to each other at school and then play each other on the weekends. We used to do this primarily for football but also threw some baseball and basketball in there too. Teams were usually made up by geography/ local elementary school/ playground or "landmark" (example: we had 6 'teams': School 5, School 7, School 8, HS, Valley, 7-11), with most games taking place at a field most centrally-located to everyone or you did a classic 1-for-1 at each team's 'home field'.
Joe P.
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No back about 15 years ago it became nn Arthur's Steakhouse. Yes, the same owner that has locations in Morris Plains and Hoboken.
I don't know why they closed the bar and bulldozed the building. I don't think they built anything on the premise. The owner opened a bar in Paterson on the border of Fairlawn across from the old Johnny and Hanges.
Yes it did. It stopped spinning around June of 1965 (I believe, could have been 66) due to mechanical failure.
Night clubs on route 35 in south Amboy, and going to the El Matador Diner afterwards!
Thanks.
I remember going to that store a lot as a little kid with my Mom and always thinking, I wonder if that clown spins.
Went to Cook with his son. I think he only stayed one year?
As a product of Hunterdon County and a kid in the 80's, definitely the Flemington Speedway, back when it was a dirt track. My uncle raced there so we'd go many Saturday evenings when I was a kid, and have fun watching him race. Used to come home covered in dirt/dust many times, but it was surreal as a kid to watch!
Those cars looked like mobile greenhouses with all the glass. I drove a 1980 AMC Concord DL for three of my years at RU.
Add Olympic Park,Irvington and Dream Land Park,Frelinghyusen Ave, Newark to the list of Amusement Parks long gone.
Now I remember it with the Moosehead. Traveled that way twice a day, worked at American Cyanamid in Wayne..
Millman's Hot Dogs on Meeker right across from Weequahic Park and Sid's Hot Dogs on Chancellor right across from Weequahic H.S. And a personally nostalgic one:The kids playing touch FB on Belmont ave near Avon in Newark.We would play in between the changing of the traffic lights.Too many of us gone.Lost one of the guys,my oldest friend,recently.He was 91.
Buxton's ice cream in Pluckemin
If you ate the 10 scoop Big Bux, you would win a second one for free.
If you ate the 10 scoop Big Bux, you would win a second one for free.
Just kidding. You're probably right, but still needed a map to find PSU. Could've ended up in Lewisburg and stayed.
Neighborhood 1 screen movie theaters... some of which were converted "opera" houses with real stages.
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1 hr photo booths
Good call on Charlie Brown's, although there are still a few around, but a lot have been closing
Ground Round, with peanuts all over the floors
Cluck U Chicken in New Brunswick (I remember when the delivery guy in the chicken suit got assaulted in the Livingston quads)
Atlantic City, before being screwed by the developers. I remember the initial casinos weren't so bad or overgrown.
Consumers Distributing - weird going to the store & waiting for the stockfolks to bring out your goods
Bennigan's - making a comeback slowly, but miss the P-way & East Brunswick locations
Good call on Charlie Brown's, although there are still a few around, but a lot have been closing
Ground Round, with peanuts all over the floors
Cluck U Chicken in New Brunswick (I remember when the delivery guy in the chicken suit got assaulted in the Livingston quads)
Atlantic City, before being screwed by the developers. I remember the initial casinos weren't so bad or overgrown.
Consumers Distributing - weird going to the store & waiting for the stockfolks to bring out your goods
Bennigan's - making a comeback slowly, but miss the P-way & East Brunswick locations
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