MY FAVORITE LINES:
"I'm
don't trust, I'm bitter, I'm sarcastic--
What
can I say?.... I'm from Jersey"....
-c.
2006
"jerz"
Some facts you may or may not know about
New Jersey and which you may
or may not care to know about anyway :-)
Facts about NJ
If you've
ever lived in Jersey...you'll appreciate this!!!
New Jersey is a peninsula.
The 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 race horses 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.
(NO DUH)
New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
(CANT ARGUE THAT!!)
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, and 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,
cranberry, and peach production--So much for the Georgia Peach!
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—
Newark Liberty International.
George Washington slept here. Several important
Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil--the
Battle of Trenton & Princeton led
by General George Washington.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player to
the CD generation), and motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ, laboratory.
The first phonograph records were made in Camden,NJ.
David Sarnoff reciever of Titanic's SOS call,
was the founder of CBS, was an innovator in radio, created the TV Camera, created the television set, created LCD &
Plasma display. Sarnoff's projects and early TVS are still on display at Princeton.
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.
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.
Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in
the world, not to mention salt water taffy.
The wooden bridge in Eddie & the Cruisers
was located in Wildwood and was a two-lane rickety bridge, replaced in 1995...
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 1889 (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, Dennis
Farina,
Joe Piscopo, Robert Blake, John Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman,
Gordon McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta,
Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva
Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm.Halsey,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.
