Closed places that I miss. (Jersey City, Clifton: condo, purchase, movies)

[NewHomeHappy]

Originally Posted by Alex07860

I miss been a kid, when the summer days were long and time lasted forever. I miss laying on the grass and looking up at the clouds and see the different shapes they would take. I miss sitting around w/ my friends or playing ball all day long. I miss my mom calling me to come home because it was dinner time. I miss riding bikes or taking a walk to the local music store and check out the latest albums. I miss sleepovers in the yard w/ my friends and looking up at the night skies and seeing all the stars and telling stories. I miss snow days from school and having snow fights w/ my brothers and my mom yelling at us to come get a cup of hot chocolate and to get rid of our wet clothes before we catch a cold. Yeah, that's what I miss.

very sweet post & so true. Now who really wrote this?

[Alex07860]

Originally Posted by NewHomeHappy

very sweet post & so true. Now who really wrote this?

I'm in one of those moods today.....I'm just ....tired I guess. Ok, enough sappy stuff....who has the booze? and where are the broads?

[victorianpunk]

Originally Posted by NewHomeHappy

Yuppie- Young Urban Professional or Young Upwardly Mobile Professional. How is this a "bad" thing? Where could anyone be confused by saying that Yuppies "took over" and it was a bad thing or that Yuppies eliminated the working class. Yuppies work and Yuppies are now going Green.

Okay, let me explain: When I say "Yuppie" I don't mean as much a social class as I do a subculture...and the worst kind of subculture: THE KIND THAT REFUSE TO ADMIT THEY ARE A SUBCULTURE!

I am not talking millionaries here, but rather folks who wear dress shirts on the weekends to the park with their little kids play raquet ball, sip lattes and use blackberries to text their coworkers about marketing reports. Compare that to the good old "white trash" Jersey days, of folks in flannels and band shirts drinking beer, headbanging to some hardcore or metal, and spending a Saturday afternoon not playing raquetball with "Albert and Jay" but instead working on their car before heading to "the show"

Get what I'm getting at?

For crying out loud, the reason I can't stand Jersey anymore is becuase it isn't Jersey anymore: It's now a cross between Statane Island and LA and is not the state I grew up in.

[CaptainNJ]

Originally Posted by Alex07860

I miss been a kid, when the summer days were long and time lasted forever. I miss laying on the grass and looking up at the clouds and see the different shapes they would take. I miss sitting around w/ my friends or playing ball all day long. I miss my mom calling me to come home because it was dinner time. I miss riding bikes or taking a walk to the local music store and check out the latest albums. I miss sleepovers in the yard w/ my friends and looking up at the night skies and seeing all the stars and telling stories. I miss snow days from school and having snow fights w/ my brothers and my mom yelling at us to come get a cup of hot chocolate and to get rid of our wet clothes before we catch a cold. Yeah, that's what I miss.

alex missed wearing his metallica shirts while setting trees on fire and torturing puppies while he listens to heavy metal music and chokes his chicken.

[CaptainNJ]

Originally Posted by victorianpunk

Compare that to the good old "white trash" Jersey days, of folks in flannels and band shirts drinking beer, headbanging to some hardcore or metal, and spending a Saturday afternoon not playing raquetball with "Albert and Jay" but instead working on their car before heading to "the show"

just for clarification, this is the preferred group?

[victorianpunk]

Originally Posted by CaptainNJ

just for clarification, this is the preferred group?

The group that is more fun, more laid back, and less likely to look at me and other "mere mortals" through their nostrils and do not walk around like their feces smells of roses? Yes, indeed.

[CaptainNJ]

Originally Posted by victorianpunk

The group that is more fun, more laid back, and less likely to look at me and other "mere mortals" through their nostrils and do not walk around like their feces smells of roses? Yes, indeed.

i like the other group more.

[Ninjahedge]

Originally Posted by njguy

All for Corporate CRAP.

I liked the Apple Cider.

Forgive my poor memory, but was that anywhere near Abma's, or am I thinking of another "farm" in NJ that went the way of the Dodo.....



I remember that there were two, I think, in Wayne? Right across from each other. One serving fresh cinnamon donuts and apple cider (before pasteurization cooked all the flavor out of it). I think they took one out and made it into condos or something. Now you have to drive an hour out to go to a farm and pay more to pick your own than you would get it at the store.

Sad sad stuff.




BTW, I was driving through Pompton the other day and thought I missed the Dairy Barn! I guess they did get rid of it... I wonder why.

[NewHomeHappy]

Originally Posted by CaptainNJ

i like the other group more.

Agreed. Ummm dress shirts, clean kids, weekends games with family & turd that smells like roses !

Besides, I'm so shy around freaks. Thats why here in my Kingdom, we keep the trolls in the dungeon.

Carry on.
HRH

[Ninjahedge]

Originally Posted by victorianpunk

I am not talking millionaries here, but rather folks who wear dress shirts on the weekends to the park with their little kids

If that's what you got that's washed....... Although I have to admit I prefer the stretchy Polo type shirts. I don't want to have to pay for a shirt to be washed just to go to the park (we have a small washer, everything washed in it looks like Brillo when you are done. WAY too much ironing!)

play raquet ball,

You gotta get your stereotypes right. They play squash, the weirder version of racquetball with a small hard deadly ball and longer racquets!

sip lattes and use blackberries to text their coworkers about marketing reports.

That is more like Yuppie Squared. The Yuppies that are also obnoxious/insensitive/clueless.

Compare that to the good old "white trash" Jersey days, of folks in flannels and band shirts drinking beer,

Leaving their cans all over the front lawn to be "picked up" by the lawnmower?

headbanging to some hardcore or metal,

Loud enough for everyone else to hear? While I like that (or similar) music myself, blasting it isn't exactly being "good old". It is usually being an obnoxious "Phillips-Head You" kind of skanky slacker.

and spending a Saturday afternoon not playing raquetball with "Albert and Jay" but instead working on their car before heading to "the show"

Um, what universe are you coming from? Not all townies behave even like what you are talking about. They have the mailbox batters and garbage tippers. the ones with the loud muffler installed on their mustang to wake everyone at 3 in the morning.

EVERY group has their own butt-wipers. The key is not to judge everyone else by the ones you see and hate. Classifying "Yuppies" as playing Golf with "Albert, Jay and Chad" is just blind-sided.

You even missed the big points, like the BMW roadster they need to have with their "bumper buddy" on the outside to protect it while parallel parking! The "Look-at-me" Bug-a-boo or other expensive stroller 2-3 wide they buy so that every kid is "special". The dog that has a better pedigree than the owners!!!!

Get what I'm getting at?

Ya. You are getting old and crotchety like the rest of us!

For crying out loud, the reason I can't stand Jersey anymore is becuase it isn't Jersey anymore: It's now a cross between Statane Island and LA and is not the state I grew up in.

You have SERIOUSLY not been to LA if you say that. Take a trip to Plastic Land and you will get a very different perspective.

While I miss some things, but not some others. "Gentrification" of an area can kill it. The removal of the local coffee shop (or in some places, ACTUAL Cafes) to be replaced by StarPlucks. No more local hardware, just Home Depot and Lowes out on the highway. No more family-style restaurant, just the franchises (Bennigans, Houlihans, Fridays, Ruby Tuesdays, Applebees, etc etc). But it also comes with some benefits, as can be seen in some areas of Hoboken and NYC where you no longer have to be afraid to walk at night and the streets are much cleaner.

Thing is, things change. Good bad or otherwise, and people always feel weird when they do. What you can hope for is not to exclude yourself 100% from the change and influence it rather than oppose it and eventually be either successful (and drive out buisness at the same time) or fail and be driven out yourself.

Good communities are the ones that accept change, but become a part of it at the same time. They grow and become hopefully better because of the new people and ideas coming in. Pointing fingers and calling names has never helped anyone on either side.