Jersey'isms (West Milford, Stanhope, Milford: price, land , commercial)

[wileynj]

Wild West City still exists : ))) So does Land of Make Believe. What was that one place up near West Milford? The one you could drive through to see the animals??? Turtle back Zoo?

[newtothis]

LOL "the Jersey devil"
The Italian ice guy and Mr. Softee were right around the corner knowing damn well that us kids were eagerly waiting their arrival. Not the Fruitman.
What was the hooker man ?

[LilCabinGirl]

Originally Posted by wileynj

I think so shanny : )) What about whenever you would get hurt.. you'ld run in the house sreaming and crying because your arm is about to fall off..and all mom would do was to throw some of that red stuff on there, slap on a bandaid and send you back out in the street to play..lol : ))

AAAcccckkkkk!!!! It was merthiolate!!!!!! I hated when my put that stuff on meeeeeee. I burned like all get out. I would have rather my arm fall off.

[mr.man]

Does anyone remember the guy who used to come around and turn an old car tire into a flowerpot? My grandmother still had her's till this day.

[shannybannany]

We had guy in the summer that was the fruit/vegetable man. We were so sophomoric when he would say, "Fruit Man!" We'd laugh like crazy! Gawd! We were such idiots!

[NYLATINQT]

Originally Posted by findinghope

does anyone remember ALEXANDER'S??? withthe painting in the side of the building?!
we were there every weekend!

I used to work at Alexanders, in Queens, NY. This is a funny thread. I miss my NY/NJ people. I'm in Atlanta now.

[wileynj]

Did anyone ever get threatened by their parents that if they didn't behave that they would take you to "Mrs. Medici's" - I had no idea who this woman was, but boy was I scared... they told us that she would hang you up by your toes..lol : ) Funny thing is, one day as an adult heading "down the shore"..I saw a sign for Medici's restaurant...I couldn't help but wonder if that's where my parents got the name from. We did vacation in Seaside each year on mom's pick 3 winnings : ))

[shannybannany]

Originally Posted by wileynj

Did anyone ever get threatened by their parents that if they didn't behave that they would take you to "Mrs. Medici's" - I had no idea who this woman was, but boy was I scared... they told us that she would hang you up by your toes..lol : ) Funny thing is, one day as an adult heading "down the shore"..I saw a sign for Medici's restaurant...I couldn't help but wonder if that's where my parents got the name from. We did vacation in Seaside each year on mom's pick 3 winnings : ))

Never heard that one wiley but dear old dad would tell us he was gonna pull into the police station and have the cops arrest my brother and me if we didn't stop arguing in the car.

[NJmmadude]

The big 5:

Where ya heddin'?
Whaddaya doin?
Where da girls at?
Whatsamaddawhitchoo???
Whose dat *&$^#!$ guy?

Miscellaneous:


Oh! (hello!)

OH! (what's wrong with you?, or whatsamaddawhitchoo?)

EY! (excuse me, sir or madame)

EYY! (please stop doing that)

What's goin on? (what are you doing tonight?) -or-

What's goin on? (how have you been since we last talked?)

Always calling someone 'pal', whether with positive or negative affect:

'Thanks, pal', or 'hey, pal, what seems to the the problem?'



Requests:

Close dat winda, I'm catchin a drayft

Cawfee, lightnsweet

aboddla would-er (a bottle of water)

Slang:

Ginker (very particular to the Trenton area)

Also:

WEIRD NJ!

If any of you Jersey romantics don't read 'weird NJ', please pick up a copy soon, it's a great magazine for us Jerseyans.

This thread is GREAT, thanks to the OP for starting the thread

[wileynj]

I dont remember a tire guy? But funny thing is, I see those tire / planters all over NJ : ))))))Now we have some crazy guy running around with a chainsaw turning trees into bears..eagles..etc....lol - actually, they're really cool - Im thinkin' about gettin' one for my front yard : )

Originally Posted by mr.man

Does anyone remember the guy who used to come around and turn an old car tire into a flowerpot? My grandmother still had her's till this day.