Post #156,388
5/22/04 4:16:29 PM
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New Jersey
You might want to emphasize "The Garden State" motto, because nothing else about New Jersey is very complimentary.
There's always Mafia connections - so a doll dressed in a zoot suit with feet planted in a tub of concrete would be good - or a model of a garbage truck since the Mafia controls the waste hauling industry there.
When I lived there, the most prominent feature was up north in Newark - an endless expanse of burning garbage as far as the eye could see, even from the elevated hights of the Polaski Skyway, with an overpowering stench of burning orange and grapefruit peels - but I presume they've cleaned this up at least to some extent - but the old timers would remember, so burn a few grapefruit peels.
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Post #156,447
5/22/04 8:39:13 PM
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Geez
Makes me want to move.
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Post #156,460
5/23/04 12:04:09 AM
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I presume . . .
. . the EPA or somebody made them clean up that mess under the Polaski Skyway, can you confirm that?
Does the Polaski Skyway still exist? It was really amazing back in the late '50s. From way up high you could see columns of smoke rising from smoldering fires as far as the eye could see - and the memorable stench.
Fortunately I lived down in West Central New Jersey, way out in the woods, and it was pretty nice there. Of course we did have our own private smoldering dump as all the farm houses did, but it was small and only burned once a week. One of my chores to tend it and make sure everything got burned.
The nearby town of Bloomsbury had its own smoldering dump, of course, and the older kids went out there with .22s to shoot rats, but I don't think I ever went out there.
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Post #156,494
5/23/04 11:32:52 AM
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Can't answer
I've never even head of it.
I live in Cherry Hill, which is right across the river from Phildelphia.
I have no idea where our trash goes. No dumps within 30 miles that
I am aware of.
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Post #156,497
5/23/04 12:33:59 PM
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Well, I found lots of pictures . . .
. . of the [link|http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/pulaski/|Pulaski Skyway] at a half dozen sites, so it's alive and reasonably refurbed. All shots show clear sky with no columns of smoke and underside shots show industrial areas or weed lots, so I guess the dump is long gone, as I suspected. It certainly was a wonder.
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Post #156,521
5/23/04 6:22:00 PM
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Well we used to have a dump in midtown Anchorage
In the late seventies it was a huge gravel pit that you drove into and dumped at the bottom, now you drive by and look up the hill to watch the small planes land at the west runway of Merril field.
thanx,
bill
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Post #156,524
5/23/04 8:01:01 PM
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West Central NJ?
Hunterdon's nice - you wouldn't know it was in NJ... I grew up there.
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- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #156,542
5/24/04 12:20:50 AM
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Yup, it was Hunderton county.
Pretty nice, but how ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen LA?
My mom's brother talked her into bringing us kids out here when my dad was found to be screwing around with Connie. Came down into Burbank in a [link|http://www.oldprops.f9.co.uk/DC6.htm|DC6] and it looked the very picture of Hell - dry brown hills on fire everywhere, huge columns of smoke rising to anvil-heads way above the flight path.
We put up in a cheap motel on the Sunland edge of Burbank - sparse, semi-developed - vacant lots with piles of fresh green and dried brown and rolling Russian thistle (tumbleweeds). Bowling alley across the street. Hot and bleak, and a lot of telephone poles with bad haircuts ("palm trees", they called 'em). The few local kids were gruff, but they didn't reject you just because you were new (in Bloomsbury you were new for eterinty if you weren't born there).
In about a week Mom (finally cashed her chips this morning at about 2 am) got homesick, and so did my (younger) brother, but I'd gotten a bit fascinated with this particular version of Hell. She said, "I want to go back", and my brother agreed. I (junior high age (I think they call that "middle school" now)) stated firmly, "OK, you go - I'm staying".
Now I'm not sure I actually remember saying that, but I've been told many times that I did. Anyway, they were stuck here.
Pardon the reminisce, but when your mom dies some memories bubble up, even for a hard hearted cynic like me.
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Post #156,554
5/24/04 2:27:51 AM
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I'm sorry to hear that your mom died :-(
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Post #156,562
5/24/04 6:37:48 AM
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Sorry you lost your Mom :(
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #156,570
5/24/04 7:24:28 AM
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Sorry about your Mom, Andrew.
Alex
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Post #156,571
5/24/04 7:26:06 AM
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Sympathies.
Peter
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Post #156,573
5/24/04 7:32:54 AM
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Condolences, Andrew. :-(
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Post #156,582
5/24/04 9:26:17 AM
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understood :(
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Post #156,584
5/24/04 9:37:11 AM
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My condolenses
No matter the age.
No matter how cynical.
No matter how hard hearted.
It still hurts when you lose a parent.
The memories will always come flooding back at the most inopportune times.
My deepest sympathies.
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Post #156,594
5/24/04 10:15:12 AM
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You have my sympathy as well
It seems to be a weekend for it. My mother-in-law died saturday. I share your pain.
Hugh
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Post #156,598
5/24/04 10:21:26 AM
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And my condolences to you
While an occassional mother-in-law may fit the stereotypical role, most don't. Sharing the pain of loss with a spouse is just as painful as experiencing the pain yourself.
Condolences to both you and your wife.
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Post #157,456
5/28/04 2:01:46 PM
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My belated condolences as well. :-(
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Post #156,600
5/24/04 10:28:13 AM
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*clink* To moms, with reverence.
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Steve
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Post #156,607
5/24/04 10:45:01 AM
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Ditto.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #156,603
5/24/04 10:32:07 AM
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Sorry for you Andrew.
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Post #156,606
5/24/04 10:40:54 AM
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Sorry to hear that.
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Post #156,701
5/24/04 5:12:52 PM
5/24/04 5:13:33 PM
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Condolences. Am sure she lived long & well. D
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May 24, 2004, 05:13:33 PM EDT
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Post #156,720
5/24/04 6:37:25 PM
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Added
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Post #156,752
5/24/04 8:14:50 PM
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Sorry AG
-drl
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Post #156,792
5/25/04 12:18:37 AM
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Wow. Sorry
I may bitch about my mom, but I do enjoy speaking to her.
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Post #156,894
5/25/04 2:06:25 PM
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Please add my condolences to the list.
jb4
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Post #156,905
5/25/04 4:02:44 PM
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My condoleances too, to both Andrew and Hugh.
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Post #157,448
5/28/04 1:33:39 PM
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I'm sorry to hear that.
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Post #156,526
5/23/04 8:11:53 PM
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It is cleaner now - but I had a buddy with a great
description of what it used to look like.
Orc work.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #158,450
6/4/04 2:33:17 PM
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If it's th e roadway to or from GWB,
it's still around, or was in 1994-95
No burning garbage visible anywhere near.
(traveled there to work and back)
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Post #158,481
6/4/04 10:49:08 PM
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Nah! Pulaski Skyway only goes from Jersey City, NJ to
Newark, NJ crossing over the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers. US 1/US 9 have, if any, other names approaching the George Washington Bridge.
I've always thought of Pulaski as feeding the Holland Tunnel to Manhattan, but technically it does not reach it.
Alex
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Post #158,661
6/6/04 5:32:47 PM
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Then it may be another road I traveled years ago
Is it the one that the buses from Port Authority Bus Terminal in Mahattan take? That's the road I took when I could not bum a ride :)
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Post #156,546
5/24/04 1:12:59 AM
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Actually, I thought about the mafia
But the reunion is in a church, so I don't think that's a good idea. Maybe we'll work on the Garden State concept. It's the best shot we have so far.
Thanks!
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Post #156,608
5/24/04 10:50:15 AM
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Also home for
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~~~)-Steven----
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He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
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