I grew up in Irvington and wouldn’t trade those days for anything! My grandfather worked for Western Electric in Kearney for 38 years! What great times. We don’t know what we had until it’s gone!
I first saw THIS IS NEW JERSEY in 1963 when I was in the 5th grade. Years later I met John Cunningham who wrote the script for the film I am told, and he gave me his personal Technicolor copy in which you are seeing here. John Cunningham had written a popular book of the same title in 1953. Also, the production company, Owen-Murphy Productions, who did films for AT&T, also was contracted in 1959 for the film ALL ABOUT NEW YORK, you can see on Periscope's You Tube channel. Both films are similar in their production and format.
Still love NJ we get a bad rap and do have high taxes but the proximity to so many scenes is what makes it great. There is more to NJ than what you see leaving Newark Airport.
Many thanks for posting this fine film. I first saw it in 1963 when I was in the 5th grade and I knew John Cunningham who wrote the script, and have had correspondence with the film's director Paul Cohen who also made a similar film for NY Telephone All About New York. NJ Bell, the sponsor, premiered the film in 1957 at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, NJ, home base for NJ Bell.
I have the book from 1953, which was handed down to me from a good friend of the family who lived for a time in Rumson, and who grew up like my family did in the wonderful village of Ridgewood (still a nice place... Not like it was) but is chock full of New Yawk accents!!!!!
@@peterheidgerd5418 I grew up in Ridgewood NJ! Great town with tons of restaurants and top-rated schools. Loved it there and the fireworks, for a relatively small town, truly were something else.
@@kristopheraleman The African Kingdoms enslaved and sold their people as slaves close to two thousand years ago. Causing a social and economic collapse of the continent of Africa. Give them a house and they'll turn it into a pile of bricks. Give us a pile of bricks and we'll turn it into a house. Let that be a lesson for the future.
New Jersey has been my home for 63 years. I’ve left but always returned home. Proud to be a “Jersey Boy”. Shoutout to Stratford NJ, it’s changed, mostly lower class white people now.
I remember going to Edison's lab in 5th grade in the late 1960s. That image of his desk has always been etched indelibly in my mind. And one of the guides had actually worked with Edison.
Sadly NJ has changed considerably since this film was made. Only 40% of her land remains forest. Her beaches have shrunk and Atlantic City is just a casino spot now. Bell Telephone was run out of the state by Comcast Corp (formerly Garden State Cable) and the cost of living is one of the highest in the nation. The beauty is still here and rural living is quite comfortable (still some of the best fishing anywhere too!) but it's rough growing up here. The benefit of which is it created some of the toughest people in the country.
@@2pugman And one of the anti-gun states. Their gun laws are among the strictest in the nation, up there with California, Maryland, New York and Massachusetts. That can be good or bad, depending on where you stand. If you don't believe that law-abiding citizens have a right to defend themselves against criminals that don't give a hang for gun laws, then New Jersey is your kind of state.
The print you are seeing was given to me by John Cunningham who worked on the film back in 1956 when it was in production. I remember seeing it in the 5th grade on a large screen in 1963. It was available through New Jersey Bell who had a film lending service. Years later, Paul Cohen who worked on this film, made a revised version, and one called Tales of New Jersey, based on the stories published in a brochure by New Jersey Bell, attached in the envelope with your monthly bill!
@@herbsewell5302 It's 3am. Your comment had me laugh out loud. Thanks. When someone tells me they're from New Jersey, I say I'm sorry. I can get away with it. I grew up in N.Y., and all of my relatives lived in New Jersey. I have fond memories of crossing the Goethal's bridge in the 60's. The smell over Elizabeth was so foul back then, that a giant turd smelled better. Thanks again for the laugh.
I was born and raised in New Jersey, will never ever leave. Most of my childhood friends will never ever leave. Do you notice that people born here normally never leave, and if they do move their back within two years, I did not hear any mention of the Steuben house in Hackensack with George Washington did sleep for a night or two while he was fighting some battle. Not sure which one I was born and raised in new Milford the birthplace of Bergen county so they say on the sign.
Was born 1963 in Dover NJ and had a beautiful life because of the rich history when Families had a garden in the yard apple trees , pear trees and cherry trees , used to swim in the Rockaway river and spend summers in Beach Haven! As for work my Father and Brother worked for Mt Hope Rock , Mom for Piccatiny Arsenal, Myself and friends worked for MA BELL as telephone operators In Morristown NJ . It was a great place to grow up and lots of fun going to Lake Hopatcong Bertrand’s Amusement Park with the oldest wooden roller coaster 🎢, terrifying! We would take the Erie Lackawanna train into NY on the weekends, great memories!
Newjersey has much beauty. I love my wholesome memories. Born in Paterson,,grew up in Sussex County, but traveled all over the state,,camped in every state park,,, unfortunately to expensive,,tired of winter and all the people and corruption ruining it,,,now in sc
This mint condition Technicolor print you are watching was given to me by John Cunningham, many years ago, who worked on the production of this classic documentary!
born and raised, grew up in Bricktown. Absolutely wonderful, and a great childhood. !!! I was blessed to be there, and loved EVERY MINUTE Of it !!!! the best schools, best friends, best life !!! oh how I miss those days. Bless the Garden State ALWAYS. !!!!
New Jersey is lost forever. Those field trips in 1956 could have been one of mine. Although I have many fond memories, I will never return. Lost forever.
I was born in Manhattan but have a connection to New Jersey too. I married a girl from Sewell NJ. I was in the Navy and she was my supervisor's wife's maid of honor. Barbara was from Mullica Hill. When I got out I commuted to work at the World Trade Center. I really hadn't wanted to go back to New York Telephone but there was a recession in 1975 when I got out. I lasted until 1979. I couldn't stand the state. Expensive and cold. Commuting was killing me and our marriage. I went for the office and asked if there was somewhere I could transfer to. I'd spent my teens in Florida and I wasn't going back there. She agreed to Charlotte, NC. I went back South but only half way. She had three friends she'd graduated from college with living there and My best friend since the 8th grade was there. He'd transferred out of Miami here we'd gone to school and started with Southern Bell. We were packing and my wife found some of my papers. She said, "There's town in Bergen County with your mother's maiden name." I said yeah, "My Great Grandfather owned a saw mill there in the 1600s. He used to be the Magistrate of Haarlem before the English came." I opened up more of the stuff for her to see. Another Great Grandfather founded Woodbury. My wife was born in Woodbury. Anyway in 1865 my Grandfather Garret moved to New York City. I should have taken the hint and never came back here. We're 42 years now. After the AT&T breakup I was laid off and started a business. We did fairly well and we've been a while. I don't think we could have done this in New Jersey. Too much red tape and expenses. Taxes are reasonable here. I pay about the same amount of real estate tax here for 2200 sq. ft. house and an oceanfront house near Camp Lejeune as I was paying for a 1600 sq. ft. house for my mother in law to live in in Gloucester County. The last few years a number of corporations have left NJ and settled here in Charlotte. Most employees came with them. We're happy to have anyone who comes but we do have one request. Leave the Democrat Party up there. You've shmutzed up your own nest don't foul ours. We don't need your high taxes and your anti-gun laws.
Waiting to see Bayonne where they made PT Boats, and had Standard Oil. My Granddaughter worked there. My Dad worked in Colgate's in Jersey City. All was cheaper back then.
12:50 - My grandfather had a successful poultry farm in Ocean County, starting in 1922. He had a lot of good customers, and shipped his eggs as far away as New York City. But by 1956 he was apparently not making any money at it any more, and sold off all the chickens. He concentrated 100% on produce after that, and made enough through his roadside stand to cover the property taxes and other expenses. He sold the farm in 1988. 15:22 - Seabrook Farms is not in Bridgeton. It is in Upper Deerfield Township. After that, there was discussion of our tomatoes, but the narrator failed to mention the old story about the man who stood on the steps of the Salem County courthouse in 1820 and ate a tomato in front of a crowd. Up to that point they had been thought to be poisonous.
@@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 That's the only thing you have to worry about is racism? Even Black and Hispanic families had more structure and stability then. Man is not improving himself. The heart of man is still deceitful and desperately wicked.
God has blessed the Tri-State area of Southeast, PA, South Jersey, and Delaware with abundant rain ☔️ for decades now. I’m 61 and can’t recall the last major drought we’ve had.
At 3:13 you have JCP&L in South Amboy. Grew up there, and called it "the power house." That entire area was a postcard for industry. They burned coal. There were train engine houses where they had to change from diesel to electric and vice-versa. And tons of highways ran through through there. The Raritan bridges were just ahead. I still dream of this place...it was an industrial hell, but it was beautiful. Power house is gone now, as is the coal.
The golden age is anything but the present, always. It's called looking through rose colored glasses. Today will be someone else's golden age. Interesting film though.
Great video of a simpler time. Despite all the factories that provided plenty of jobs, the state was still 84% forest and farmland according to the narrator. Now look at it. High unemployment, farms and forests paved over, yet crumbling infrastructure, and political mismanagement for years now. Darn shame.
I remember when there were nothing but factories in North Jersey. When they did the massive lay offs, they gave no benefits, or terrible compensation for years of dedicated work. The companies were greedy and only cared about money. Their greed destroyed work ethic because no one wants to dedicate themselves to be thrown away when your company finds cheaper slave labor elsewhere.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention all the industrial activity along the Hudson River. On certain days you can still smell its remnants when walking on the waterfront in Edgewater. All that manufacturing left us with the most Superfund sites in the nation. Nevertheless, all the factories that closed did so by choice. They could have remained in New Jersey, implemented modern, cleaner and more efficient manufacturing standards while remaining profitable. Unfortunately, in many cases, taxes, politics and onerous regulations helped them to make the decision to leave. And perhaps some CEO/Board greed mixed in.
@@MegaBait1616 Not at all. I personally think that both sides, left or right should negotiate with each other and actually “fix” the problems that are happening in this state.
I was born in Long Branch in 1971. New Jersey is the most unique state, in my opinion. I have been to many, but coming home is always welcome. I lived NM for 4 years, and couldn't wait to come back. Something had changed, though. WNEW was gone. KRock was gone. My town of Monmouth Beach was not the same. It had become a place infested with out-of-staters. Hardly any native New Jerseyans left. They don't understand what New Jersey is all about, and have no loyalty to it. I hate that Jersey is run by people who hate it. I liked the singular distinction that no other state liked us. When I told people where I was from out west, they took a step back. I hate that one of the original 13 states is a blue state, when it should be red, patriotic as hell! But sadly, it's run by corrupt, backstabbing idiots that don't care. I love my state, and would ser it restored to it's rightful place. Come hell or high water (sometimes literally) I never want to leave! I LOVE New Jersey!
They forgot to mention the state has the highest concentration of guidos per capita anywhere in the nation. How you think The Jersey Shore got that oil slick ? 😮
Wow, at 28:55, the 2 people fishing look like my Uncle Robert and my Grandfather, they went down the shore every weekend from Cranford NJ. But at 29:01 that footage was after 1956, cause in the background is the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which didn't start construction until August 1959.
I live in the Tri-State Area. If only they knew in 68 years later, it would be Dirty Jersey. 😂 But loving New Jersey in 1956. Not today of course. All 50 states are going through a crisis. Due to inflation & local officials. California has it 10x worse.
I think there is a complicated levee system in the California Delta that keeps the water from becoming too saline. It keeps the SF Bay water from flowing in, rather than the Delta water from flowing out.
Wow, Jersey had "mobile phones in 1956. Dad had one of those in his car in 1962. They were radios, with not a lot of range especially in the Berkshire mountains, and few base stations. Not a big point, but any old car nut would correct the writer of the caption regarding the car the county agent is driving. Not a Studebaker, but a Plymouth "Plaza", 1954 vintage.
I am from New Jersey boy most of these things are gone but somethings are becoming good in this state Jersey City has a Movie Studio called Cinelease Studios I live in Branchburg it’s in Somerset County it’s right by Flemington
Thanks to all the scumbag politicians. In both parties. But mostly the greedy banksters who own the lowlife grifters, called politicians. We had a great country, when this was filmed. I was there. 60's - 1980s were great times. You never worried about being homeless. You could wash dishes, and afford a place to live. People could live in dignity, no matter what their educational back ground. A couple could raise a family on one income. Now kids are being raised by the schools, and daycares. We see how that's is working out.
There were so many jobs you see what happens look at technology today people are without jobs real Hands-On jobs this is a disgusting deterioration in our lives now that will be remembered
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All that American might shipped to China. I'm saddened by this. Washington and the American warriors that sacrificed for everything we had, given away by greed. Shame.
Would rather it be there than polluting our rivers and drinking water. Ever been to Newark or Elizabeth? The air is so filthy you can't even roll down your windows. It's great for jobs, but terrible for long term health.
@@colechapman6976MIT published an article proving how manufacturing helps foster innovation, competitiveness, and productivity. Not services or trade. Instead of shipping away manufacturing, they could have found cleaner alternatives.
I appreciate that this is uploaded (for free & without YT having a cow yet), but is there a version without the time stamp? I wonder why that WATERMARK WANNA-BE is there anyway, becausfI doubt that it was a part of the original.
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Lived in NJ my whole life. The only thing good here is there's a lot of good restaurants. Everything else, including the people, is absolute trash. Definitely looking to make an exit, and there's even a tax on that.
New Jersey rocked 🎸 for me back in tbe day, many a good vibe memories middle street road hometown days in New Jersey Love, hugs and kissessess to everyone everywhere 😃😁🤗🌌✨🎇🎇🎇....🪐.....🌟....😇.....
The regional phone companies back then did well with its marketing and public relations for being the monopolies they were; as long-distance phone rates were astronomically high when adjusted for inflation. Telecommunications deregulation, in the 1980s, did wonders to drive down the cost of long-distance phone call rates. In the west coast of the US in 1963, a long distance phone call of 250 ~ 1K miles distance could range from 25 to 50 cents PER MINUTE; that'd be around $2.25 to $4.50 *per minute* in 2022 when adjusted for inflation.
Excellent film, however 1/3 of NJ is NOT below the Mason Dixon line. I just looked it up. We had a state law maker make that same claim in 2012, and it was fact checked as false. Mason Dixon line separated most of Pennsylvania and Delaware from southern slavery. The Mason Dixon line didn't enter NJ.
Dee's was a wonderful day is that you can move to a town in New Jersey and live on one income this is what the days when if things didn't go good for you somebody will open the door to you and you'll be on your way again
Communist NJ to me is the arm pit of this country. I know. I lived there the first 51 years of my life and recently moved to a free state. An American state 🇺🇸
@@colechapman6976 will do. Luckily we moved centrally so its not as bad as the coasts. And honestly the local authorities and community are on top of things since they're so used to it. I'll take my chances down here.
@@colechapman6976 I'm not even arguing that. I'm sure there are. Who knows for sure? I think no matter where anyone ends up there will always be somewhere better. The important thing is family and I are happy down here. To each his own right?
@@Modeltnick LOL you're right, he didn't. But the Kin Buc landfill on the Raritan River in Edison NJ was a toxic waste dump that was overloaded with tanker truck containers full of wastes, and it caught fire in the late 70's. The Raritan River was actually on fire due to the flammable wastes floating on it.
@@johnorlitta Thanks for your response! Very interesting. Lots of abuse went on in NJ for many years. When Edison had his iron mines in northern NJ, it was a mess. At least they ended up with Lake Mohawk near Sparta.
Interesting fact: New York has the largest concentration of lawyers and New Jersey has the largest concentration of toxic waste dumps. Why? Because New Jersey had first choice 😂😂😂
the jersey i grew up in is not longer.. great schools, safe streets, families, parades, free picnics, lots of middle class people, low taxes, until the socialist democratic mafia took it over. i left the place in 1976 and moved to wyoming. No way would i live there now. The past is long gone!!
"New Jersey. It's not just a state. It's a state of mind."
I grew up in Irvington and wouldn’t trade those days for anything! My grandfather worked for Western Electric in Kearney for 38 years! What great times. We don’t know what we had until it’s gone!
Ah yes. Olympic Park!
21:18 - Murry Hill ..?
What about Holmdel? 😀
@@tonys8613 YES !
@@295g295 This film was made in 1956. Bell Labs Holmdel did not begine construction until 1959 and was opened in 1962.
@@295g295 Construction began 1959
I love these old educational films... Thank you
I first saw THIS IS NEW JERSEY in 1963 when I was in the 5th grade. Years later I met John Cunningham who wrote the script for the film I am told, and he gave me his personal Technicolor copy in which you are seeing here. John Cunningham had written a popular book of the same title in 1953. Also, the production company, Owen-Murphy Productions, who did films for AT&T, also was contracted in 1959 for the film ALL ABOUT NEW YORK, you can see on Periscope's You Tube channel. Both films are similar in their production and format.
Still love NJ we get a bad rap and do have high taxes but the proximity to so many scenes is what makes it great. There is more to NJ than what you see leaving Newark Airport.
Many thanks for posting this fine film. I first saw it in 1963 when I was in the 5th grade and I knew John Cunningham who wrote the script, and have had correspondence with the film's director Paul Cohen who also made a similar film for NY Telephone All About New York. NJ Bell, the sponsor, premiered the film in 1957 at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, NJ, home base for NJ Bell.
I have the book from 1953, which was handed down to me from a good friend of the family who lived for a time in Rumson, and who grew up like my family did in the wonderful village of Ridgewood (still a nice place... Not like it was) but is chock full of New Yawk accents!!!!!
@@peterheidgerd5418 I grew up in Ridgewood NJ! Great town with tons of restaurants and top-rated schools. Loved it there and the fireworks, for a relatively small town, truly were something else.
The good ole days. Long gone. 😥
We live in better times goddamn it.
The great days are long gone. Along with proper American morals values and ethics
@@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster lol where people are offended by statues and dr Seuss.. pussy generation
@@kristopheraleman The African Kingdoms enslaved and sold their people as slaves close to two thousand years ago. Causing a social and economic collapse of the continent of Africa. Give them a house and they'll turn it into a pile of bricks. Give us a pile of bricks and we'll turn it into a house. Let that be a lesson for the future.
I live in Tom's River and it's getting destroyed more and more.
New Jersey has been my home for 63 years. I’ve left but always returned home. Proud to be a “Jersey Boy”. Shoutout to Stratford NJ, it’s changed, mostly lower class white people now.
I remember going to Edison's lab in 5th grade in the late 1960s. That image of his desk has always been etched indelibly in my mind. And one of the guides had actually worked with Edison.
Indoctrination!!!
I did also! Might have been the same guide! I remember the bottle of Listerine still on the desk!
@@Modeltnick Yes, I remember the Listerine as well! 🙂
@@jpsned Thanks for your reply! Great times we had in NJ!
@@Modeltnick You're welcome! Yup, NJ's the best! 👍
Sadly NJ has changed considerably since this film was made. Only 40% of her land remains forest. Her beaches have shrunk and Atlantic City is just a casino spot now. Bell Telephone was run out of the state by Comcast Corp (formerly Garden State Cable) and the cost of living is one of the highest in the nation. The beauty is still here and rural living is quite comfortable (still some of the best fishing anywhere too!) but it's rough growing up here. The benefit of which is it created some of the toughest people in the country.
I’ve always said, New Jersey is a very fun place to grow up. Even more difficult to become an adult here. The cost of living here is atrocious.
@@MGsModShop Let's not forget that NJ is now a Blue state. They have ruined NJ.
@@2pugman And one of the anti-gun states. Their gun laws are among the strictest in the nation, up there with California, Maryland, New York and Massachusetts. That can be good or bad, depending on where you stand. If you don't believe that law-abiding citizens have a right to defend themselves against criminals that don't give a hang for gun laws, then New Jersey is your kind of state.
The print you are seeing was given to me by John Cunningham who worked on the film back in 1956 when it was in production. I remember seeing it in the 5th grade on a large screen in 1963. It was available through New Jersey Bell who had a film lending service. Years later, Paul Cohen who worked on this film, made a revised version, and one called Tales of New Jersey, based on the stories published in a brochure by New Jersey Bell, attached in the envelope with your monthly bill!
New Jesey was the 1st Capital of the United States and 70 % of battles were fought on her soil. to sum it up. BEST STATE EVER
70% of what battles? Most of the Revolutionary War battles were fought in NY and most of the Civil War battles were fought in Virginia.
Lots of inaccuracy here.
Uh...what?
LMAO New Jersey is not any of this. It is, in fact, a giant turd.
@@herbsewell5302 It's 3am. Your comment had me laugh out loud. Thanks. When someone tells me they're from New Jersey, I say I'm sorry. I can get away with it. I grew up in N.Y., and all of my relatives lived in New Jersey. I have fond memories of crossing the Goethal's bridge in the 60's. The smell over Elizabeth was so foul back then, that a giant turd smelled better. Thanks again for the laugh.
I'm from New Jersey Born and Raised 🙌
Okay, you're excused 😅
I grew up in Ridgewood in the 70’s. Couldn’t have asked for a better childhood!
I was born in Jersey city NJ in 1964 and my grandfather used to work for Standard Oil.
Wonderful story
I was born in Passaic in 1960. It went to ruin in the early 70's. My parents moved us out of state in 1977. Never looked back.
I was born and raised in New Jersey, will never ever leave. Most of my childhood friends will never ever leave. Do you notice that people born here normally never leave, and if they do move their back within two years, I did not hear any mention of the Steuben house in Hackensack with George Washington did sleep for a night or two while he was fighting some battle. Not sure which one I was born and raised in new Milford the birthplace of Bergen county so they say on the sign.
Was born 1963 in Dover NJ and had a beautiful life because of the rich history when Families had a garden in the yard apple trees , pear trees and cherry trees , used to swim in the Rockaway river and spend summers in Beach Haven! As for work my Father and Brother worked for Mt Hope Rock , Mom for Piccatiny Arsenal, Myself and friends worked for MA BELL as telephone operators In Morristown NJ . It was a great place to grow up and lots of fun going to Lake Hopatcong Bertrand’s Amusement Park with the oldest wooden roller coaster 🎢, terrifying! We would take the Erie Lackawanna train into NY on the weekends, great memories!
Newjersey has much beauty. I love my wholesome memories. Born in Paterson,,grew up in Sussex County, but traveled all over the state,,camped in every state park,,, unfortunately to expensive,,tired of winter and all the people and corruption ruining it,,,now in sc
This mint condition Technicolor print you are watching was given to me by John Cunningham, many years ago, who worked on the production of this classic documentary!
Good ol' 'Merica rocked, 'til about the end of the 1970s.
born and raised, grew up in Bricktown. Absolutely wonderful, and a great childhood. !!! I was blessed to be there, and loved EVERY MINUTE Of it !!!!
the best schools, best friends, best life !!!
oh how I miss those days. Bless the Garden State ALWAYS. !!!!
Aside from the "tanning of elephant and rhino", great look back at NJ and there is no tomato than can beat a NJ tomato.
New Jersey is lost forever. Those field trips in 1956 could have been one of mine. Although I have many fond memories, I will never return. Lost forever.
I’m born and raised in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs and didn’t know NJ was known for iron ore.
I was born in Manhattan but have a connection to New Jersey too. I married a girl from Sewell NJ. I was in the Navy and she was my supervisor's wife's maid of honor. Barbara was from Mullica Hill. When I got out I commuted to work at the World Trade Center. I really hadn't wanted to go back to New York Telephone but there was a recession in 1975 when I got out. I lasted until 1979. I couldn't stand the state. Expensive and cold. Commuting was killing me and our marriage. I went for the office and asked if there was somewhere I could transfer to. I'd spent my teens in Florida and I wasn't going back there.
She agreed to Charlotte, NC. I went back South but only half way. She had three friends she'd graduated from college with living there and My best friend since the 8th grade was there. He'd transferred out of Miami here we'd gone to school and started with Southern Bell.
We were packing and my wife found some of my papers. She said, "There's town in Bergen County with your mother's maiden name." I said yeah, "My Great Grandfather owned a saw mill there in the 1600s. He used to be the Magistrate of Haarlem before the English came." I opened up more of the stuff for her to see. Another Great Grandfather founded Woodbury. My wife was born in Woodbury. Anyway in 1865 my Grandfather Garret moved to New York City. I should have taken the hint and never came back here.
We're 42 years now. After the AT&T breakup I was laid off and started a business. We did fairly well and we've been a while. I don't think we could have done this in New Jersey. Too much red tape and expenses. Taxes are reasonable here. I pay about the same amount of real estate tax here for 2200 sq. ft. house and an oceanfront house near Camp Lejeune as I was paying for a 1600 sq. ft. house for my mother in law to live in in Gloucester County.
The last few years a number of corporations have left NJ and settled here in Charlotte. Most employees came with them. We're happy to have anyone who comes but we do have one request. Leave the Democrat Party up there. You've shmutzed up your own nest don't foul ours. We don't need your high taxes and your anti-gun laws.
Quite a bit of NJ is Republican.
Waiting to see Bayonne where they made PT Boats, and had Standard Oil. My Granddaughter worked there. My Dad worked in Colgate's in Jersey City. All was cheaper back then.
12:50 - My grandfather had a successful poultry farm in Ocean County, starting in 1922. He had a lot of good customers, and shipped his eggs as far away as New York City. But by 1956 he was apparently not making any money at it any more, and sold off all the chickens. He concentrated 100% on produce after that, and made enough through his roadside stand to cover the property taxes and other expenses. He sold the farm in 1988. 15:22 - Seabrook Farms is not in Bridgeton. It is in Upper Deerfield Township. After that, there was discussion of our tomatoes, but the narrator failed to mention the old story about the man who stood on the steps of the Salem County courthouse in 1820 and ate a tomato in front of a crowd. Up to that point they had been thought to be poisonous.
Tomatoes are the same family as deadly nightshade.
I grew up in Bayonne! Back when education was educational.
That does it. I'm moving to New Jersey.
That's really funny 😅
WAIT! There's some more recent footage you might want to peruse.
Make New Jersey great again.
I wish but it's only to get worse............. # 1 Party System , General Fund doesn't work. aka: Murphy....
yeah if you dont count the blatant racism smh..............trust me if cell phone cameras were around then it wouldnt have seemed so "great"
@@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 hahaha hahaha racism hahaha
@@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 That's the only thing you have to worry about is racism? Even Black and Hispanic families had more structure and stability then. Man is not improving himself. The heart of man is still deceitful and desperately wicked.
@@patcola7335 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I moved to Jersey City from Long Island in 1993 and have never once regretted it.
I'm moving there from Texas. It's good to learn some history.
God has blessed the Tri-State area of Southeast, PA, South Jersey, and Delaware with abundant rain ☔️ for decades now. I’m 61 and can’t recall the last major drought we’ve had.
At 3:13 you have JCP&L in South Amboy. Grew up there, and called it "the power house." That entire area was a postcard for industry. They burned coal. There were train engine houses where they had to change from diesel to electric and vice-versa. And tons of highways ran through through there. The Raritan bridges were just ahead. I still dream of this place...it was an industrial hell, but it was beautiful. Power house is gone now, as is the coal.
So basically there really was a golden age...
& we missed it!
THERE WAS definitely a golden age. I got to see it for its' last several decades!!
and I lived it.
The golden age is anything but the present, always. It's called looking through rose colored glasses. Today will be someone else's golden age. Interesting film though.
The golden age of… toxic chemicals and mass deforestation? That’s what you’re seeing here.
Anytime somebody wants to bash New Jersey I'm going to show them this video before they talk trash
You would be showing them a time capsule, not present day history.
Great video of a simpler time. Despite all the factories that provided plenty of jobs, the state was still 84% forest and farmland according to the narrator. Now look at it. High unemployment, farms and forests paved over, yet crumbling infrastructure, and political mismanagement for years now. Darn shame.
I remember when there were nothing but factories in North Jersey. When they did the massive lay offs, they gave no benefits, or terrible compensation for years of dedicated work. The companies were greedy and only cared about money. Their greed destroyed work ethic because no one wants to dedicate themselves to be thrown away when your company finds cheaper slave labor elsewhere.
@@kristopheraleman suburban sprawl. Suburbs destroyed the environment
@@kristopheraleman - Are talking about 1956 or 2022??? People were compensated better back then.
We still have fifty percent forest, and our median incomes are some of the highest in the state.
@Cole Chapman so are taxes and Nick one diamond b******* of tolls
Born here in 1951 and now have to move because the taxes are just too high. The politicians and their greed have ruined a great place.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention all the industrial activity along the Hudson River. On certain days you can still smell its remnants when walking on the waterfront in Edgewater. All that manufacturing left us with the most Superfund sites in the nation. Nevertheless, all the factories that closed did so by choice. They could have remained in New Jersey, implemented modern, cleaner and more efficient manufacturing standards while remaining profitable. Unfortunately, in many cases, taxes, politics and onerous regulations helped them to make the decision to leave. And perhaps some CEO/Board greed mixed in.
My father was born in Jersey City in 1957.. I was born in Jersey City in 1990
These films are from an era not that long ago…maybe 50 years, when we as Americans still had patriotism in our blood.
I have a book on the colonial history of NJ. It used to be a nice state with a lot of history, but sadly, so much of it has and is being destroyed.
Go JERSEY!
Arm pit of the east coast
@@bignuts850 Industrial/pharma powerhouse of the east coast too
I’m here for 65 years now 😂😂😂❤❤
Two of the towns I lived in were shown, Harrison & Kearny. I also lived in New Brunswick, Somerset, West Orange and Cliffside Park.
63 years living in N.J. I can tell you 100% to move out of my state. It's nothing anymore like this anymore.
I’m 19 going on 20, and though I am young, I can wholeheartedly agree with you. Lots of political and economical corruption
@@aostlund27 , smart kid. Question with only 1 political party in charge do you think that's good ?
@@MegaBait1616 Not at all. I personally think that both sides, left or right should negotiate with each other and actually “fix” the problems that are happening in this state.
I will also add that with a governor who seems to care about his ego more than the state itself, I will have a heart attack if he gets another term
@@aostlund27 , again smart kid, best to see our country before staying here.
My Dad was working for NJ Bell at the time!
I was born in Long Branch in 1971. New Jersey is the most unique state, in my opinion. I have been to many, but coming home is always welcome. I lived NM for 4 years, and couldn't wait to come back. Something had changed, though. WNEW was gone. KRock was gone. My town of Monmouth Beach was not the same. It had become a place infested with out-of-staters. Hardly any native New Jerseyans left. They don't understand what New Jersey is all about, and have no loyalty to it. I hate that Jersey is run by people who hate it. I liked the singular distinction that no other state liked us. When I told people where I was from out west, they took a step back. I hate that one of the original 13 states is a blue state, when it should be red, patriotic as hell! But sadly, it's run by corrupt, backstabbing idiots that don't care. I love my state, and would ser it restored to it's rightful place. Come hell or high water (sometimes literally) I never want to leave! I LOVE New Jersey!
There’s still WDHA. Better than NYC stations
They forgot to mention the state has the highest concentration of guidos per capita anywhere in the nation. How you think The Jersey Shore got that oil slick ? 😮
Wow, at 28:55, the 2 people fishing look like my Uncle Robert and my Grandfather, they went down the shore every weekend from Cranford NJ. But at 29:01 that footage was after 1956, cause in the background is the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which didn't start construction until August 1959.
About the only thing still left unspoiled from this clip is Cape May.
Born & Raised in NJ. My children attended that Chatham HS shown in the education section. But, high taxes have driven us all away.
What was the tax rate in 1956 when this was made?
It's a easy Google. Try it
I live in the Tri-State Area. If only they knew in 68 years later, it would be Dirty Jersey. 😂 But loving New Jersey in 1956. Not today of course. All 50 states are going through a crisis. Due to inflation & local officials. California has it 10x worse.
This video is showing all the chemical plants that made it dirty!
In Sacramento now, never heard of the river direction being reversed. Must have been a huge pump.
I think there is a complicated levee system in the California Delta that keeps the water from becoming too saline. It keeps the SF Bay water from flowing in, rather than the Delta water from flowing out.
Wow, Jersey had "mobile phones in 1956. Dad had one of those in his car in 1962. They were radios, with not a lot of range especially in the Berkshire mountains, and few base stations. Not a big point, but any old car nut would correct the writer of the caption regarding the car the county agent is driving. Not a Studebaker, but a Plymouth "Plaza", 1954 vintage.
Camden. Use to be a rocking city.
Born in S.B.B. New Jersey & Grandpa used to work for Budweiser. The King of Beers.
I am from New Jersey boy most of these things are gone but somethings are becoming good in this state Jersey City has a Movie Studio called Cinelease Studios I live in Branchburg it’s in Somerset County it’s right by Flemington
We need to have a part two episode 2022 to show how the jobs have all left and went to China . And the gettos that became of the city's
Thanks to all the scumbag politicians. In both parties.
But mostly the greedy banksters who own the lowlife grifters, called politicians.
We had a great country, when this was filmed. I was there. 60's - 1980s were great times.
You never worried about being homeless. You could wash dishes, and afford a place to live.
People could live in dignity, no matter what their educational back ground.
A couple could raise a family on one income. Now kids are being raised by the schools, and daycares.
We see how that's is working out.
There were so many jobs you see what happens look at technology today people are without jobs real Hands-On jobs this is a disgusting deterioration in our lives now that will be remembered
The follow-up could be called "NJ's Toxic Superfund Sites" as that's what became of most of these places.
RIGHT?!? All those factories!
New Jersey is one of fifty states which comprise the United States.
You don't say.
When I was born the U.S. flag had 49 stars.
@@-oiiio-3993 When I was born it had 48.
@@robertcuminale1212 Indeed.
The 49th was added July 04, 1959, the 50th on July 04, 1960.
Recognize the narrator's voice? Its Peter Graves.
really? Now THAT's interesting if true.
"Hello Mr. Phelps. You have a new mission, should you decide to accept it".
What a great film ! I'm "Made in New Jersey and grew up through the fifties. Great memories !
When America was real I remember it
when you got the numbers going down below does that make the movie look authentic?
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Did your parents have any normal kids?
I'm from the armpit of NJ, Patterson
Paterson
Farms, cattle? Sadly, very few left.
North Jersey:
Gravy
South Jersey:
Sauce
Staten Island is OURS NOW
Born in Camden, NJ ! The State gets a bad rap, but it’s mainly now because of crazy property taxes.
Close to my Heart , GARDEN STATE
All that American might shipped to China. I'm saddened by this. Washington and the American warriors that sacrificed for everything we had, given away by greed. Shame.
Would rather it be there than polluting our rivers and drinking water. Ever been to Newark or Elizabeth? The air is so filthy you can't even roll down your windows. It's great for jobs, but terrible for long term health.
@@colechapman6976MIT published an article proving how manufacturing helps foster innovation, competitiveness, and productivity. Not services or trade. Instead of shipping away manufacturing, they could have found cleaner alternatives.
How many of those industrial jobs still exist? How many NJ residents are on welfare?
I appreciate that this is uploaded (for free & without YT having a cow yet), but is there a version without the time stamp? I wonder why that WATERMARK WANNA-BE is there anyway, becausfI doubt that it was a part of the original.
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Scholes Electric still going strong in NJ!
New Jersey: 84% forested in 1956; now only 45%....
Who narrates this?
1/3 of NJ is not below the mason dixon line.... not sure where they got that info from lol
I didn’t think it was either but after looking it up, 1/3 is technically below the Mason-Dixon Line
I live in Woodbine N J. And I can tell you for a fact that we're below the Mason Dixon line.
So come on down y'all !
@@thejerseyj9422 I came from Iselin and now live in Tom's River. It is getting built up and destroyed down here also.
It’s technically an eastern prolongation of Mason and Dixon’s Line.
Home sweet home
"Yesterday's waste lands are today's wealth" LOL. Those brown fields are still paying dividends...
I can tell you there’s no better tasting peaches 🍑 than the South Jersey variety !
Lived in NJ my whole life. The only thing good here is there's a lot of good restaurants. Everything else, including the people, is absolute trash. Definitely looking to make an exit, and there's even a tax on that.
My family moved us out of state in 1977. Glad we left!
When America was 90 percent white
Mr Johns, New Jersey is Italian and Jewish.
thankfully it isn't anymore. Everyone can share it now.
New Jersey rocked 🎸 for me back in tbe day, many a good vibe memories middle street road hometown days in New Jersey
Love, hugs and kissessess to everyone everywhere 😃😁🤗🌌✨🎇🎇🎇....🪐.....🌟....😇.....
The regional phone companies back then did well with its marketing and public relations for being the monopolies they were; as long-distance phone rates were astronomically high when adjusted for inflation. Telecommunications deregulation, in the 1980s, did wonders to drive down the cost of long-distance phone call rates.
In the west coast of the US in 1963, a long distance phone call of 250 ~ 1K miles distance could range from 25 to 50 cents PER MINUTE; that'd be around $2.25 to $4.50 *per minute* in 2022 when adjusted for inflation.
This is New Jersey! That smell!
Excellent film, however 1/3 of NJ is NOT below the Mason Dixon line. I just looked it up. We had a state law maker make that same claim in 2012, and it was fact checked as false. Mason Dixon line separated most of Pennsylvania and Delaware from southern slavery. The Mason Dixon line didn't enter NJ.
But if it did, I believe Cape May would be below it
Where did all the lead waist go?
Waste?
Dee's was a wonderful day is that you can move to a town in New Jersey and live on one income this is what the days when if things didn't go good for you somebody will open the door to you and you'll be on your way again
Communist NJ to me is the arm pit of this country.
I know.
I lived there the first 51 years of my life and recently moved to a free state.
An American state 🇺🇸
been a Jersey boy all my life. Moving to Florida this year.
@@MrCaptainpope Good luck with those hurricanes and sinkholes
@@colechapman6976 will do. Luckily we moved centrally so its not as bad as the coasts. And honestly the local authorities and community are on top of things since they're so used to it. I'll take my chances down here.
@@MrCaptainpope Yeah but Florida, come on. There must be better states out there
@@colechapman6976 I'm not even arguing that. I'm sure there are. Who knows for sure? I think no matter where anyone ends up there will always be somewhere better. The important thing is family and I are happy down here. To each his own right?
Back in the good old days when rivers actually caught fire due to unregulated pollution .
You’re thinking of Cleveland.
@@Modeltnick No, he's thinking of Edison
@@johnorlitta Edison never set a river on fire.
@@Modeltnick LOL you're right, he didn't. But the Kin Buc landfill on the Raritan River in Edison NJ was a toxic waste dump that was overloaded with tanker truck containers full of wastes, and it caught fire in the late 70's. The Raritan River was actually on fire due to the flammable wastes floating on it.
@@johnorlitta Thanks for your response! Very interesting. Lots of abuse went on in NJ for many years. When Edison had his iron mines in northern NJ, it was a mess. At least they ended up with Lake Mohawk near Sparta.
09:56. Looks like the former Ford Motor Company along Route 17 in Mahwah.
Where is the old Jersey?.
Interesting fact: New York has the largest concentration of lawyers and New Jersey has the largest concentration of toxic waste dumps.
Why?
Because New Jersey had first choice 😂😂😂
Mafia heavyweight Albert anastasia and his family where living in fort Lee at this very time, the last year for him anyway.
Where did it all go wrong?
Democrats took power.
@@richardgray8593 BINGO!
Loser Rump the trump Tell you making America great
New Yorkers moved in and kept voting like it was New York
All those factories dumped their waste in the ground and all those farms sold their land to developers, for starters.
NJ was made the butt of jokes for years. Never knew why.
the jersey i grew up in is not longer.. great schools, safe streets, families, parades, free picnics, lots of middle class people, low taxes, until the socialist democratic mafia took it over. i left the place in 1976 and moved to wyoming. No way would i live there now. The past is long gone!!
She’s toast now 😥
Ever since the DemocRATs came to power
Interesting