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buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 1559
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 2:44 pm: |     |
Does anyone know if Maplewood/S Orange has ever been mentioned in Weird NJ. I got my first copy today and wondered if we were weird enough.
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nan
Citizen
Username: Nan
Post Number: 1657
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 5:35 pm: | |
Issue 23 included "The Rakeman Of Maplewood"
http://www.weirdnj.com/misc_issues/issue23.html |
tulip
Citizen
Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 1864
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 5:42 pm: | |
Jimmy's Hot Dog Stand is now among the epicurean delights of South Main Street in my beloved Phillipsburg. I haven't tried it yet, but have heard it is really great, even if listed here among "weird NJ." |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 4979
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 8:11 pm: | |
Weird South Orange |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 272
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 10:11 pm: | |
There was a mention of a small park in South Orange on Valley Street. There is a plaque in the middle listing the names of those that were buried there before it became a park. It has the word "Baby" on it, according to the story. It was in an issue about two years ago. |
buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 1560
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 8:06 pm: | |
Thanks all. It's weird out there.
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Taurus5208
Citizen
Username: Taurus5208
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 3:14 pm: | |
There is also mention of the unusual architecture of the corner building on South Orange Avenue and Village Plaza. It says something about how the building looks like it was built around a house, and when I checked it out it really does look like that! You can see the roof and eves of the top of a house in the middle of the brick building if you are standing on SO Ave, looking up at the roof. |
gozerbrown
Citizen
Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 595
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 3:42 pm: | |
Not exactly M/SO, but the lady with all the flamingos in her yard on Gregory Ave. was recently features. |
millie amoresano
Citizen
Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 162
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 4:20 pm: | |
she is known as ''The Pink Lady" just about everything in her house is pink her cadalillac is pink and her hair is too. |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 479
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 9:00 pm: | |
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ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 206
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, January 8, 2005 - 7:08 pm: | |
Weird NJ:
1. People who don't use their turn signals.
2. Most street signs.
3. Cars parked (seemingly) in the middle of streets with one small lane in each direction. Often a foot or more from the curb.
4. Houses with no address numbers.
5. Repulsive SUVs (I guess that's redundant) that fly through crosswalks (on Prospect, for example) while children are waiting to cross.
6. The guy who was blabbering on his cell phone while checking out at Kings last week. The clerk was waiting patiently for payment while he continued his shrieking (cutting a big deal, no doubt!). I was behind him; when I spoke up, he replied "I'm on the phone, OK?" NO...NOT OK. You are not the center of the world. Finish your purchase, folks are waiting for you. Go outside and make your power calls -- maybe you can impress people out there.
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Katie Clayton
Citizen
Username: Grovykndofluv
Post Number: 125
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 12:06 am: | |
i spent most of my summer going on weird nj adventures...it was better than taking a real vacation! went all over the state saw alot of weird and scary stuff...can't wait to do it again!..WARNING .if u ever decide to go find the stuff ur self..be careful! and stay off clinton road at night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
jjkatz
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 517
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 4:48 pm: | |
ligeti - $10 says that was Straw and if you'd grabbed the phone and put it up to your ear, you'd have heard "At the tone, the time will be...."
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