<p>Glen Gardner was my wife’s hometown and is about 5 miles north of Clinton on Rt 31–formerly Rt 69 but all the signs kept disappearing so they changed it.</p>
<p>Tsdad-
My husband grew up in South Plainfield…he spent a bunch of time educating me on the subtle distinctions between Plainfield, North Plainfield, and South Plainfield. If I remember correctly, they are all in different counties???</p>
<p>garland-
Biking to Sandy Hook via route36 and the highlands!! Yes! A favorite trip.
My first job was tending the soda fountain and ringing the register at Wasserman’s in Leonardo (circa 1972). It’s long gone now, I think.</p>
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<p>Not knocking Cumberland county but I think it has a lot of prisons, and bugs. I was looking at a few acres there one summer and when I stepped out of my car, it was like something from the Bible, i.e. a plague of locusts. Fortescue is pretty cool in a 60’s commune flashback sort of way. Northern Cape May county is nice, around Woodbine or Dennis Twp., even Salem county if you don’t mind living within the nuclear incineration zone. Elmer is nice if you can get past the name. I moved to Gloucester county 8 years ago and I’ve spent a lot of time driving around. There’s not much traffic, as my son noted within a week of moving here “yeah you can get nowhere real fast.” haha Be careful where you buy down here, for various reasons.</p>
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<p>Yeah, we did that too. Joke’s on me since I live in south jersey now, in a town of about 2,200 people. </p>
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<p>oh, yeahhh mmm. I remember long rides to farm stands as a kid and we used to eat the corn raw right in the car. </p>
<p>Anyone go to YMCA camp - Camp Makawackmo I think.</p>
<p>musicmom:</p>
<p>Plainfield is in Union County. South Plainfield is in Middlesex County. North Plainfield is in Somerset County.</p>
<p>One of my closest friends from grad school at UNC lives in Leonardo, on the water , near where the navy ships are docked. He grew up in Long Branch somewheres near Momouth College.</p>
<p>Yeah, tsdad: it played into that whole Jersey thing about places being nothing more than an exit on the parkway or turnpike, and the general characterization of the state as a strip of land a mile wide on either side of a thru road. Anyone heard the John Gorka song “I’m from New Jersey/I don’t expect too much…”</p>
<p>Garland: we didn’t have a kayak in those days, but loved canoeing down the Muskenetcong, or however you spell it, in the spring, and drifting in same down the crystal clear brown creeks of the Pine Barrens, and best of all, tubing down the Black River.</p>
<p>tsdad-
Yes! another Plainfield(s) expert! thanks.</p>
<p>I graduated from Monmouth College back in 1978. It was (and is) a beautiful campus.
Typical Jersey shore.</p>
<p>Plainfield High School, Class of 1960.</p>
<p>Husband was South Plainfield High, Class of 1972.</p>
<p>North Hunterdon Regional HS Class of 1967</p>
<p>“I’m From New Jersey” - John Gorka</p>
<p>I’m from New Jersey, I don’t expect too much
If the world ended today, I would adjust.
I’m from New Jersey, no I don’t talk that way
I watched too much TV when I was young
I’m from New Jersey, my mom’s Italian
I’ve read those mafia books, we don’t belong.
Girls from New Jersey who have that great big hair
They’re found in shopping malls, I will take you there
I’m from New Jersey, it’s not like Texas
There is no mystery, I can’t pretend
I’m from New Jersey, it’s like Ohio,
But even more so, imagine that
I know which exit, and where I’m bound,
Tolls on the parkway they will slow you down.
New Jersey people, they will surprise you
'Cause they’re not expected to do too much
They will try harder, they may go further,
'Cause they never think that they are good enough
I’m from New Jersey, I don’t expect too much
If the world ended today I would adjust</p>
<p>I would adjust</p>
<p>I would adjust</p>
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<p>Hey thanks, tsdad, I think I’ll spend 99 cents on itunes. One of my favorite threads here (I’m getting a little tired of this college bull), even though I’m not from New Jersey (DC). But I spent a happy 7 years there.</p>
<p>Regarding Plainfield when I lived in NJ I recall the Brunswicks, North, South, East and New. Aren’t they all in Middlesex County?</p>
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<p>Idk but wasn’t South Brunswick aka Monmouth Junction? I remember when I lived there, there was a vote on whether to rename South Plainfied - I think to Hadley - but it didn’t pass.</p>
<p>Husband Wautchung '72.</p>
<p>Idler:</p>
<p>We could start a separate DC thread. You could begin by telling everyone that you went to he Beatles concert at the old Uline Arena–was that its name? I miss Woodies.</p>
<p>Yeah, Uline. Didn’t attend that concert, sadly. Peter, Paul, and Mary at the Carter-Barron Amphitheatre was more my thing then. I did see Lew Alcindor and Power Memorial get beaten by DeMatha at a packed Cole Field House, though.</p>
<p>Then there are a crate-load of Oranges situated around Newark…</p>
<p>Scotch Plains - Fanwood HS, class of '72. (Hi, ctnjpamom’s brother! 
) Exit 135.</p>
<p>My first ever live concert was seeing The Lovin’ Spoonful in the gym at Union Catholic Boys. My second live concert was The Small Faces (with Rod Stewart, but no one singled him out then) in the gym at SPFHS (both in the mid/late-'60s). I’m sure most music historians don’t even think in terms of groups like these playing in high school gymnasiums.</p>
<p>My first job was packaging dried flowers at Parker’s Wholesale Florist on Terrill Rd. Then I graduated to Sears and Roebuck (“Sears Watchung is open from 9:30am to 9:30pm, Monday through Saturday for your shopping convenience.”) Hey, remember all those other department stores that are long gone? EJ Korvette’s? Two Guys From Harrison? And ropes across the clothing and furniture sections of the department stores on Sundays 'cause of the blue laws?</p>
<p>SPFHS '76 here - have to remember to tell my brother I ran into a classmate of his. He seems to think that everyone on the internet is pretend. lol. I wonder how many of our generation have jumped full force into the internet like I have. I signed on AOL for the first time about 10 years ago and I was hooked. </p>
<p>As far as Scotch Plains, a lot of the area still looks the same even though the old stores are gone, there are new ones. Blue Star Shopping Ctr, last time I saw it, looks pretty much the same but some of the stores are different - the bowling alley is a Marshall’s. </p>
<p>It seems to me that there was a lot more live music back then, at high schools, bars, whatever.</p>
<p>TO whoever has seen garden state recently what did you guys think of it?</p>