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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: windomearle on December 11, 2009, 10:07:10 AM
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Hey FOTs
I am visiting New York over the holidays and thought it might be cool to do a Best Show Tour of New Jersey - like one of those "The Real Kramer Tours of NY" things.
What would some of the key destinations be on a tour like this?
For me, it's all about identifying the regional references that go over my head. I'd like to see the Colgate Tower Tom threatened to impale a caller's body on, or visit Mike's grocery store from The Wrestler.
Tips and google map links would be wonderful.
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Barnegat.
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Hey FOTs
I am visiting New York over the holidays and thought it might be cool to do a Best Show Tour of New Jersey - like one of those "The Real Kramer Tours of NY" things.
What would some of the key destinations be on a tour like this?
For me, it's all about identifying the regional references that go over my head. I'd like to see the Colgate Tower Tom threatened to impale a caller's body on, or visit Mike's grocery store from The Wrestler.
Tips and google map links would be wonderful.
I've thought about doing this too. The only other things I could come up with are:
Maxwell's
The Best Buy that's the scene of so many of Tom's adventures
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Newbridge?
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Flamingo Diner?
That pinball museum (the name escapes me...)?
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Panera Bread
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Drive around Queens with a bullhorn bellowing for Spike to show himself.
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Drive around Queens with a bullhorn bellowing for Spike to show himself.
thank you for this^^^
I'm having a stressful morning and I totally guffawed.
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The Trader Joe's parking lot where Tom ate a cake in the car after 9/11.
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Pennsauken pencil factory.
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Staten Island for scenic Highland Boulevard - Sedutto's, Lemon Tree, Jim Hanley's...
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York P.A.
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Staten Island for scenic Highland Boulevard - Sedutto's, Lemon Tree, Jim Hanley's...
I was going to post this exact thing. Dang.
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Staten Island for scenic Highland Boulevard - Sedutto's, Lemon Tree, Jim Hanley's...
It's Hylan Blvd. :)
The Palisades Mall in West Nyack, specifically the IMAX theater.
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The Trader Joe's parking lot where Tom ate a cake in the car after 9/11.
Cheese!
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McCarran Park.
Wear some sunglasses.
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The shack over where the Lady Footlocker used to be.
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Flamingo Diner?
That pinball museum (the name escapes me...)?
Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ
http://silverballmuseum.com/
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Flamingo Diner?
That pinball museum (the name escapes me...)?
Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ, son!
http://silverballmuseum.com/
Fixed.
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Starting at Newark International Airport, proceed west on Route 22, pick a diner, and order some Disco Fries. Be sure to stop at Bowcraft, for video games and roller coaster rides.
Next, drive south on 287. Stop at Rutgers and order a Fat Cat.
Continue south on 287 towards the Garden State Parkway. You will pass what may be the inspiration for Consolidated Cardboard:
(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/89/l_dcb3b2b4184445688062c576c2e4ca9a.jpg)
*The building actually resembles a cardboard box.
Proceed south on the GSP to the Seaside Heights’ boardwalk. Introduce yourself to shore trash. Work up an appetite by Shooting the Geek, and playing games of chance for cartons of cigarettes. Eat Zeppolis and a Midway Cheesesteak. Ride another rollercoaster and the Zipper, but make sure you are up to date on your tetanus shots.
Continue south to Long Beach Island. Visit Fantasy Island, and sit in the Big Chair. Order iced cream.
Return north to Sayerville, NJ. Visit the former site of Hunka Bunkas. Ask for directions to Bon Jovi’s homestead. Stop in a Wawa, and order a sandwich from an electronic kiosk.
This should provide you with enough cultural relevance to pass a basic skills test in NJ lore.
Total miles: 233.
Estimated time (including driving): 10 hours
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Starting at Newark International Airport, proceed west on Route 22, pick a diner, and order some Disco Fries. Be sure to stop at Bowcraft, for video games and roller coaster rides.
Next, drive south on 287. Stop at Rutgers and order a Fat Cat.
Continue south on 287 towards the Garden State Parkway. You will pass what may be the inspiration for Consolidated Cardboard:
(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/89/l_dcb3b2b4184445688062c576c2e4ca9a.jpg)
*The building actually resembles a cardboard box.
Proceed south on the GSP to the Seaside Heights’ boardwalk. Introduce yourself to shore trash. Work up an appetite by Shooting the Geek, and playing games of chance for cartons of cigarettes. Eat Zeppolis and a Midway Cheesesteak. Ride another rollercoaster and the Zipper, but make sure you are up to date on your tetanus shots.
Continue south to Long Beach Island. Visit Fantasy Island, and sit in the Big Chair. Order iced cream.
Return north to Sayerville, NJ. Visit the former site of Hunka Bunkas. Ask for directions to Bon Jovi’s homestead. Stop in a Wawa, and order a sandwich from an electronic kiosk.
This should provide you with enough cultural relevance to pass a basic skills test in NJ lore.
Total miles: 233.
Estimated time (including driving): 10 hours
Wow! That's how you tour Central Jersey!
I am absolutely sure that Innovative Folding Carton Co. was where Tom got the idea for Consolidated Cardboard. Only one problem: they recently took the Innovative sign off the side of that building. :'(
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McCarran Park.
Wear some sunglasses.
I actually made sure this was the first thing I did in Brooklyn the first time I ever went there. I bought giant sunglasses and everything.
Sadly, nobody laughed at me.
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The rust streaks make the sign.