[NFBNJ] {Spam?} New Jersey Facts First Printed In 2010

[joe ruffalo]

Greetings to all!
I located the following in my documents.
the following is from 2010 however, much is the same.
Take special notice to the list of names born in New Jersey.
I added one for your review.

Joe

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New Jersey Facts

Subject: Fwd: NEW JERSEY~Gotta Read This If You Ever Lived Here.....








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      NEW JERSEY!!!!!

      For those of you that never had the experience of the state, why we 
are the way we are....

      New Jersey is a peninsula (Just like St. Petersburg, FL)!

      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.

      New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.

      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 ones.

      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 vacation spots: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside 
Heights, Ocean City, Long Branch, Cape May.

      New Jersey has the most stringent testing along it's 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 and cranberry production 
(and here you thought Massachusetts ?)

      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 .

      New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in 
Newark ), Liberty International.

      George Washington slept there.

      Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey 
soil, led by General George Washington.

      The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture 
projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park , NJ laboratory.

      New Jersey also boasts 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 .

      The first phonograph records were made in Camden , 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 . And, Atlantic City 
has the longest boardwalk in the world, not to mention salt water taffy.

      New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment areas outside of the 
Middle East .

      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.

      New Jersey 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 ,

      New Jersey is home to both of ' NEW YORK 's' pro football teams.

      The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson , NJ .
      Major Edwin Howard Armstrong.

      Jersey natives:  Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi,

      Jon Stewar

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      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, Zack Braff, Whitney Houston, Eddie 
Money,

      James Gandolfini,

      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, Joe Piscopo, Joe DePasquale, Robert Blake, John 
Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry 
Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, Joe Ruffalo, John Travolta, Phyllis 
Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon 
Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm.. Halsey, Jr., Norman Schwarzkopf, 
Dave Thomas (Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob 
Reyers, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Kelly Ripa, Sal 
Martorano

      (?)

      , Rich

      Echeveria (?)

      ,and, of course, Francis Albert Sinatra and 'Uncle Floyd' Vivano!


      The Great Falls in Paterson , on the Passaic River , is the 2nd 
highest waterfall on the East Coast of the US .

      You know you're from Jersey when: You don't think of fruit when people 
mention 'The Oranges .'

      You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags.

      A good, quick breakfast is a hard roll with butter.

      You've known the way to Seaside Heights since you were seven.

      You've eaten at a diner, when you were stoned or drunk, at 3 A.M.

      You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery.

      At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen, and 
you know the town Jon Bon Jovi is from.

      You know what a 'jug handle' is.

      You know what a WAWA is (and finally, so does Florida).

      You know that the state isn't all farmland.

      You know that there are no 'beaches' in New Jersey --there's the 
shore--and you don't go 'to the shore,' you go 'down the shore.' And when 
you are there, you're not 'at the shore'; you are 'down the shore.'

      You know how to properly negotiate a circle.

      You knew that the last sentence had to do with driving.

      You know that this is the only 'New' state that doesn't require 'New' 
to identify it
      (try . . . Mexico . . . York . . . Hampshire -- doesn't work, does 
it?).

      You know that a ' White Castle ' is the name of BOTH a fast food chain 
AND a fast food sandwich.

      You consider putting mayo on a corned beef sandwich a sacrilege.

      You don't think 'What exit?' is very funny.

      You know that people from the 609 area code are 'a little different.' 
Yes they are!

      You know that no respectable New Jerseyan goes to Princeton -- that's 
for out-of-staters.

      The Jets-Giants game has started fights at your school or local bar.

      You live within 20 minutes of at least three different malls.

      You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers.

      Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony.

      You know the location of every clip shown in the Sopranos opening 
credits.

      You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall.

      You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights , and 
people from Central Jersey go to Belmar,
      and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood.  It can be no other way.

      You weren't raised in New Jersey -- you were raised in either North 
Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey .

      You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state.

      You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, 
Bamberger's and Orbach's.

      You also remember Palisades and Olympic Amusement Parks.

      You've had a boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries.

      You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.

      And finally . . . . .

      You've NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas!!!!!




























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