OT: The Cutting Room Floor - Off Topic Posts Go Here

[Jeff Sumberg]

:D Bah Humbug!
What part of the state are you in? Close enough to know what I'm referring too?

Other places I would not have wanted to be at:

Willowbrook
Short Hills
Palisades Center (at least they have a Loew's and an IMAX)
Bridgewater Commons

Know these places Linda?

[Linda Haluska]

What part of the state are you in? Close enough to know what I'm referring too?

Other places I would not have wanted to be at:

Willowbrook
Short Hills
Palisades Center (at least they have a Loew's and an IMAX)
Bridgewater Commons

Know these places Linda?

Hi Jeff!
I was hoping to make you smile!:)

Seriously, NO WAY will I go to a NJ Mall during this season!
It takes 30 minutes to find a parking spot (unless you go there as SOON as the malls open) 30 or more minutes to stand in line to pay for your purchases and 5 minutes to get into the store that you want!:rolleyes:
Then try to get OUT of your parking space without some JERK waiting to nab your parking spot, without giving you room to back out and then the horrors of getting OUT of the parking lot back onto the streets can be 30 minutes to more!:eek:

The Christmas Spirit in the NJ Malls is totally ruined by rude and nasty shoppers, crying babies, overly priced merchandise and over heated stores!:mad:

I shop on ebay several months ahead of time or at the local stores, down the street from where I live, in the wee hours of the morning.

Jeff, I totally understand and I felt so bad that you had to go out into that!!

[Jack Theakston]

Palisades Center (at least they have a Loew's and an IMAX)


But it's sinking, you know. It's built on a marsh.

It's not a very well-built place. Just stepping inside it, you can see all the cracks in the ground and every once in a while, you can feel a tremor in the ground.

[Jeff Sumberg]

But it's sinking, you know. It's built on a marsh.

Yes, I'm aware of that. If you go into the underground garage, you can see the settled ground around the posts that go from the cieling to the ground.

As to whether or not it will collapse or sink out of sight, I doubt that.

Did you also know (or notice) that there is an old cemetary on the premises? The back side of the building (the side facing away from the thruway) wraps around the cemetary.

[Jim Reid]

Did you also know (or notice) that there is an old cemetary on the premises? The back side of the building (the side facing away from the thruway) wraps around the cemetary.

Shades of Poltergeist!

[Jack Theakston]

Yes, the cemetary was one of the million problems that they had when they built the place. It's actually a black WWII vetrans cemetary, and when the property was bought, it was forgotten that it was there. There was much controversy over whether to move it or not.

There was also a big brouhaha over waste depots left behind by car dealerships in that area-- Route 59 in West Nyack was and is to some extent still, even though they've moved up to Nanuet, a major car store outlet mecca, with practically every company represented in a 1 mile radius.

If you've ever been to the Palisades center at night on the south-side, there's no denying that horrible marshy odor.

[Jim Reid]

Here in Dallas, a part of I-75 was built right through what was a cemetary for freed slaves. Years later when progress was beginning to take what was left of the cemetary, there was almost a small war. I wonder how many old cemetaries were just paved over?

[Jeff Sumberg]

I wonder how many old cemetaries were just paved over?
Just outside of Newark NJ on the Garden State Parkway, the road cuts through a cemetary. They moved the bodies on the portion the road occupies (or did they? :confused:)

On the NJ Turnpike, in Secaucus, they found a "potters field" last year under the overpass (the turnpike is one large overpass for several miles over the meadows/swamps). Many years ago there was a mental institution next to where the turnpike is (snake hill), and they burried the "unknown" there. The graves were discovered last year when some work was going on in the area.

Here in my town they built a huge reserviour in the 1980's. There was a local cemetary in the area to be flooded. They moved it and it's now just off the banks of the new lake. They did a really nice job of moving it and making the relocated cemetary look exactly like it did before it was moved.

[James Wheeler]

Here in Dallas, a part of I-75 was built right through what was a cemetary for freed slaves.

I-75 doesn't run through Dallas. It goes from the Upper Penisula in Michigan down to Florida. Unless on of those hurricanes picked it up and moved it to Texas.

[Jim Reid]

I-75 doesn't run through Dallas. It goes from the Upper Penisula in Michigan down to Florida. Unless on of those hurricanes picked it up and moved it to Texas.

My error. It's not an interstate, although it runs all the way up into Kansas. Go figure.