The Swamp

mister d wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 1:03 pm That billboard pic is going in my “things that are exceptionally Jersey” scrapbook.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:37 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 1:03 pm That billboard pic is going in my “things that are exceptionally Jersey” scrapbook.

Looks like she was about to reenact the Sharon Stone leg crossing scene as the picture was taken, and they intentionally cropped her cooch out of the picture.

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:53 am Were they out of Jersey jerseys?

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:25 pm I've never heard of "East Newark" before.

GoodKarma wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:13 pm I watched the documentary Class Action Park last night about Action Park in Vernon. Any of you east coasters go there as kids and was it really as crazy/dangerous as they say?

The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:42 pm

GoodKarma wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:13 pm I watched the documentary Class Action Park last night about Action Park in Vernon. Any of you east coasters go there as kids and was it really as crazy/dangerous as they say?

I read the book by the owner's son, who was head lifeguard through his high school and college years. Pretty sure I wrote all about it. Book was batshit crazy and hilarious. I never went there, but everyone I know who went there tells stories right in line with the legend. My friend was a lifeguard at a resort property the same family owned, and he said they constantly poached lifeguards from his resort to fill in at the wave pool, and he would hide to avoid being chosen. He read the book and said that if anything, the author downplayed the dangers. Great stories about how the father made him or other employees do test runs on rides before the inspectors came. The father had to have some sort of mental illness with a manic component.

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:04 pm OK, this place (which I fortunately never made it into before it closed) has been dormant for about 10 years. And yeah there's been pushback to suggested development. But I think we're just the guys to open a upscale dive bar. Or a downscale gastro pub.

Who's in?

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:47 pm Right. When we first moved here I assumed Springfield Ave was in the process of building up into like a 2nd downtown area but our realtors and people who lived here longer said it would never happen. They're definitely right, almost 7 years in now.

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:52 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:47 pm Right. When we first moved here I assumed Springfield Ave was in the process of building up into like a 2nd downtown area but our realtors and people who lived here longer said it would never happen. They're definitely right, almost 7 years in now.

They have added a lot of condo/apt housing there the last couple of years, the stretch between like Wine Barrel and Wawa.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:55 pm Loogit this fuckin' guy thinkin' he knows the demographics of our fuckin' area get da fuck outta here.

A_B wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:54 pm

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:52 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:47 pm Right. When we first moved here I assumed Springfield Ave was in the process of building up into like a 2nd downtown area but our realtors and people who lived here longer said it would never happen. They're definitely right, almost 7 years in now.

They have added a lot of condo/apt housing there the last couple of years, the stretch between like Wine Barrel and Wawa.

Everyone knows that the dictionary isn't the only place White Flight falls between Wawa and the Wine Barrel.

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:04 pm OK, this place (which I fortunately never made it into before it closed) has been dormant for about 10 years. And yeah there's been pushback to suggested development. But I think we're just the guys to open a upscale dive bar. Or a downscale gastro pub.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:25 pm Are there successful places outside of the downtowns in the Millburn/Maplewood/SO strip that I'm not thinking of? Even if people aren't coming and going via train, that still seems like where all the congregation takes place.



(My totally foolproof plan once we finally get beer + wine licenses is a hybrid coffee shop / sandwich-centric bar that flips over service at 11:00 or whatever. Smaller, rotational menu with the bread and everything done in house, small tap list + a takeout focus since I don't think bars can survive in towns where 97% of families have school-aged kids. Right now nothing can open without huge investor backing or being part of a hospitality group because the licenses are so f'ing prohibitive. (But it wouldn't be up on Springfield Ave.))

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:47 am New Jersey’s 44 greatest bagel shops, ranked

This list confirms my suspicion that NJ is actually a bad bagel state, especially relative to geography. On the flipside ...

The Best Bagels in America

... would appear to confirm that its a NJ problem and not me problem given that my 3 favorite places all made the list.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 11:36 am Every now and then a small bagel place will open up around here and I'm almost always (there's a good one in St. Pete) disappointed. It doesn't seem like it should be that hard to make a tasty bagel.