Cool Stuff about New Jersey

Got this email from my friend Doug.

If you've ever lived in Jersey ...you'll appreciate this!!! If you have seen this before, sorry but here it is again.
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> New Jersey is a peninsula.
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> Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern >seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
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> New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as >metropolitan areas.
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> New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
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> New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq mi.) than Havana, Cuba .
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> New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US .
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> New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
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> New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
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> New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.
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> New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to >as the "Diner Capital of the World."
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> New Jersey is home to the original Mystery Pork Parts Club (no,not
> Spam): Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
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> Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian >sausage w/peppers and onions.
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> North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with >seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
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> New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island .
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> The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor >John P. Holland.
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> New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns; some of the nation's most >famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch, >Cape May.
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> New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water >quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
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> New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest >chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
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> Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
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> New Jersey is also the world leader in blueberry and cranberry
> production (and here you thought Massachusetts ?)
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> Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first >brewery in America , opened in Hoboken .
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> New Jersey rocks!
> The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in >Mahwah, in 1940.
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> 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 Seaport first.
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> New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in Newark ), >Liberty International.
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> George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles >were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
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> The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector, >were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park , NJ , laboratory.
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> We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs.
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> The first phonograph records were made in Camden , NJ (RCA).
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> The first seaplane was built in Keyport ,NJ and the first airmail (to >Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.
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> 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.
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> Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world, not to mention salt >water taffy.
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> New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the >Middle East countries. Maybe that explains our gas prices.
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> The first Indian reservation was in NJ, in the Watchung Mountains.
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> New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world. (Union,NJ!!)
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> New Jersey had the first medical center, in Jersey City
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> The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway >highway.
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> NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson (Holland Tunnel).
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> The first baseball game was played in Hoboken , NJ , which is also the >birthplace of Frank Sinatra.
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> The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in >1889 (Rutgers College played Princeton).
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> The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden , NJ , (but
> they're all gone now!).
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> New Jersey is home to both of " NEW YORK 'S" pro football teams!
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> The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson , NJ .
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> The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Thomas >Armstrong.
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> All New Jersey natives: Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce
> Springsteen, Bon Jovi, 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, Whitney >Houston, Eddie Money, 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, Norm an Lloyd, >Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, >Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, >Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm.Halsey,Jr., Dave Thomas >(Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, >Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Kelly Ripa, and, of course, >Francis Albert Sinatra
> and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino.
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> The Great Falls in Paterson , on the Passaic River , is the 2nd highest >waterfall on the East Coast of the US .
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> You know you're from Jersey when . . .
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> You don't think of fruit when people mention "The Oranges."
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> You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags.
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> You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery.
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> You know what a "jug handle" is.
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> You know that WaWa is a convenience store.
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> You know that the state isn't all farmland, but still has pl enty.
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> 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."
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> You know how to properly negotiate a circle, and you knew that the last >sentence had to do with driving.
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> 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 BOTH a fast food chain AND a fast >food sandwich.
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> You don't think "What exit?" as a location is very funny.
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> You know that people from the 609 area code are "a little different."
> Yes they are!
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> You live within 30 minutes of at least three different malls.
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> You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers.
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> Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony.
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> You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall.
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> You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights , and people >from Central Jersey go to Be lmar, and people from South Jersey go to >Wildwood.
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> You weren't raised in New Jersey --you were raised in either North >Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey .
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> You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state.
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> You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, >Bamberger's and Orbach's.
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> You've had a boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries.
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> You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.
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> And finally . . .
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> You've NEVER, NEVER NEVER, EVER
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> pumped your own gas.