Nice job Paul, I enjoyed it 👍

I'm so old I remember when new Jersey was a swing state.

Lived in NJ most of my life. You brought back so many memories of places. Wonderful nostalgic production! I live somewhere else now, but I will always be a New Jersey girl in my heart.

You showed it way to fast .

This is what technology did to us it killed this sort of industry that we can live on you see industries that we make the stuff not the machines that we make it is is what makes us jobs and let us live

Those are the great old days when the everybody had a job any kind of job you'll be able to live any kind of job even if you had a job picking up s***you will make a living the dollar was excellent and there was homes for everybody and if you lost your place to live guarantee you would find another place someone who opened the door and give you another chance

None of this is the New Jersey I have lived my entire life in. What was shown is the State of North Jersey known as the NY suburbs. Lousy video

Doe anyone remember Yvonne's Rhapsody in Blue?

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Great video brings back fond memories. I lived across the street from Packards in Hackensack and almost forgot how it looked! I spent so much time at Palisades Park and Olympic Park and remember too when Bambergers opened in Paramus! As a small child I could see Two Guys in North Bergen from the window of our top floor apartment. Thanks again.

I still have a boom box from the wiz😂 Maybe was crazy Eddie 🤔 Used to get cassette tapes at bradless and caldor. Loved Hanes and mccroys too

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seeing August 2024 wow you forget the carnage poor NJ went through!

Yes, I am Jersey Girl Forever!!! Born and Raised and probably will never leave!!!!

I love New Jersey!!! Born and Raised typing this in August, 2023 where the Daily Mail just rated NJ THE SAFEST STATE IN ALL OF THE US!!! . We are #1 again NJ. I dubbed our little state "The Little State that Could" . Fun fact: did you know NJ is the most mentioned state mentioned in all of the Hollywood Movies/tv shows etc. Boy, you touched on some real Nostalgia here, my parents favorite restaurant was the "Casa Hafbrou House" it was our go-to special occasion dinner place, I can't believe you added that!!!! Block Buster and Emerson Bowling Lanes were part of my teenagehood I would say. You could have also added the iconic Paramus Park Mall and Triplex Movie theatres of the day.

Thank you! This was my childhood, grew up in Bergen County where my Dad grew up! Seems appropriate to return to this great time today, 4th of July.

Great song, great video! Born in Bayonne 1947.

Just wonderful! I grew up in NJ in the 60s and 70s and I remember most of those spots.

route 22! absolutely beautiful !

I remember SO many of these places that I went to as a child

jersey ..... love the footage .... very cool !!!

I used to live in New Jersey ( Jersey City and Montvale) and went to Stevens. You only realize how good it is once u leave the place.

Ah yes, I remember it well! 😢

Brilliant, Paul. My old H.S. musician buddy!!

The best state to live in when I was a kid 59 years ago

Brings back great memories, left a smile on my face and brought joyous tears from my eyes

Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I loved Bertrand's Island! I grew up in Montclair and my family bought a house in Lake Hopatcong, where I spent the summers of 1975, 76, 77, 78, and 79.

Love Asbury park NJ and Neptune NJ

I left NNJ in 1994. Miss it. People and food. Colorado for now.

Channel Lumber, the Capitol Theater, Rickel, Bamberger's, Caldor's, Burger Chef, Packard's, Clam Broth House ..... Got my first credit card at Korvette's to buy a tape recorder back in '64. Boy, can't believe they're all gone. Thanks for finding all these photos.

It suddenly got very dusty in here.

I live in Ohio now, but was born and raised in Bergen County.

Great pix and song !!! So many places I’ve been.

0:21 Giant Pabst Beer bottle on thefactory in Newark, that' where my father worked. I was born ineastorange general hospital 1961. I remember going to Two Guys. 1:22 I worked at Rickle's in Union in1978/79 inthecarpet department. Been to the flea market, loved the half done pickles theyhad in oak barrels. I livedinUnion inthe winter and Seaside Park midway beach bungalow summers and rode the jet star with my buddies as kids. I remember Robert Hall and my mom bought clothes for me there. I remember Rondo music parents bought me a Fender acoustic guitar fromthere. We usedto go to Palusades Park and Lake Hopatcong inthe summersbefore we bought our lille bungalow in South Seaside Park midwaybeach.

That was great! Such fond memories

I loved Zinga's corn patch in Lafayette. They had great malts. I would always get their farmar burger.

Exiled in New England, folks ask me what it was like growing up in NNJ; I tell them: Almost Paradise. Great State, great memories. politicians cant ruin (or tax ) your memories...........................Yet

What is the building in Hamburg at 2:28?

I remember being in a blueberry pie eating contest in Olympic Park! I also remember a lot of other places here and I’m sure you do too fond memories

Great video! Thanks for making and sharing.

Oh man, I'd almost forgotten Two Guys... I remember how many times Mother's changed ownership, and names, always every third or so owner renaming it Mother's..., During its brief dinner theater time, I performed at the Hoboken Clam Broth House (Allen Felix in _Play It Again, Sam,_ and Snoopy in 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯, 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯...). Clam Broth House is gone...?

This would have been great if they went slower.

Born and raised in Dover, Morris County. Or as we say when asked the placement of Dover. Answer always given. Miles from George Washington bridge. "Dover. 31 miles from the George Washington Bridge. " Thanks Paul, love your songs and videos. I now live in Phoenix Arizona, but Dover is always in my heart❤

Its so sad what many of the places have become, rundown ghettos, crime, and lawless individuals, I'm glad to have experienced some of the good old days in the 80s, I'm the last of Gen-X

Originally from New Jersey & still have relatives there. Enjoyed the trip down memory lane! Thanks, so much, for sharing!

The Robert Hall store knocked me off my chair. Got all of my clothes there as a kid. Nice job with this, guys.

😢 you made me cry yes it’s true where are all the factories on Orange Street Newark, NJ Swift General Electric Bordens and others it’s all gone where are those companies I remember my father worked in General Electric I remember a strike that happened in the 50s I remember the candy store on the corner of Boyle Street and Orange Street The candy store on Boyle Street where the teenagers used to dance and my brother and I would watch them through the window on the third floor New Jersey is in my heart I’m crying again

Wow...what a trip down memory lane...thanks for this, Paul!🥰

I remember shopping at Two Guys and McCrory's. Bamberger's! Wow! Forgot about that one

Born in East Orange, grew up in Livingston.