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(130,143 posts)In other words, "what exit off the Turnpike(s) - NJ or Garden State?".
I have been up and down and across to and fro, and diagonally hither and yon, far too many times in New Jersey. I have an aunt and cousins and a niece living in Jersey (all in North Jersey though). My parents used to own a plot of land in N. Cape May but my mom sold it back in the '70s.
And yeah, the Jersey jughandles are awful.
But as a sidenote, I am glad they FINALLY fixed the "I-95 problem" and New Jersey. I.e., you would think that if you stayed on I-95 through Philly, you'd eventually go across some bridge and continue straight along "I-95" on the other side of the bridge in Jersey (the NJ Turnpike)... But NOOOOooooooo. You suddenly realize, previously unbeknownst to you, that the highway you were on had magically changed to I-295 (with no signs) and you would be heading over the Scudder-Falls bridge, finally confirming that you were on "I-295" and not "I-95" once you are on the Jersey side.
The re-signing has now been completed.
"Jawn" seems to be something that was suddenly "discovered" and "commercialized" recently, but it was slang that I remember using back in high school in the '70s. It was sortof a placeholder noun for "a thing" (e.g., "Yo, gimme that jawn.." ) or as a slang adjective for something that is really fantastic/incredible (e.g., "That party was the jawn" ). I think they have said it was a variation of the slang word "joint" (i.e. "That movie was the joint!" ) and I remember using that term too for the same reasons.
I miss miss miss Tower Records! It was one of the few places in the area that sold laserdisc movies!