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What memories that sign or sticker brings. I grew up right around the corner from Coast Automotive on S. State Street.  All the guys that worked there were so nice to us.  Man or man did we bother them for stickers and they would give them to us without complaining.  We used to decorate our bikes with them.   

If you want to own this one, it's currently on eBay for another 4.5 days and it's got no bids. Just enter item number: 280228965790

The seller claims it's from 1965, so that would place it at the Main St store.

"Prix-fection" - a jacked-up, customized 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix - was my baby and was ALWAYS cruising up and down Main St. This was taken in the Fairmount Diner parking lot in the summer of 1968.

Tonight's edition of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" (The Food Network) focuses on New Jersey diners, including Hackensack's White Manna Hamburgers and Clifton's Tick Tock Diner.

It airs at 10pm, again at 1am, and a third showing will be next Sunday at 11:30pm - right after the Giants win the Super Bowl.

There's a small article about it in today's The Record on page F-2.

For Cablevision subscribers, The Food Network is on channel 29.

Each year on Thanksgiving, I post this request at the various groups/lists/forums I belong to.

For the last 6 or 7 years, the first site I visit each day is http://hungersite.com/. I hope you will too, if you don't already.

Just click on the "Click Here For Free" button once a day and you donate food. That's it - there's nothing else you have to do and no one will ever contact you. It takes two seconds.

If it was a hassle, I wouldn't bother. This is the easiest and laziest way I've ever found to do some good for those who need it.

Thanks.

Folks, this is called a non sequitor.

Minor detail...................actually, it's a "non-sequitur", from the Latin "It does not follow". (I KNEW those 3 years of Bergen Catholic Latin would finally come in handy some day!)

"The Home Afloat or The Boy Trappers of the Hackensack"

Local life on and by the Hackensack River about 140 years ago:

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Home-Afloat-or-The-Boy-Trappers-of-the-Hackensack_W0QQitemZ130145900004QQihZ003QQcategoryZ29223QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

or just search eBay item number: 130145900004   
   
It's written for the younger reader, but adults will find it interesting too............well, at least I did. It's a good deal for a buck (current price).

At about 11am today, I could see the sun glistening off the low-tide sandbars of the Hackensack River at Kipp's Bend, just north of Foschini Park. At noon, I watched from my living room as a couple of rocket scientists (2M, 1F) spent a half-hour trying to free their 2 Skidoos from the barely-covered muck.

I had never seen anyone walk nearly across the river before. And while one guy was doing that, the woman, who was in water that was barely up to her shins, had problems maintaining verticality..........often.

Lots of frustration and glop on their end and lots of YouTube-worthy moments viewed on this end.

<< Public hearings are set for April 31, 2007 and June 31, 2007. >>


I keep trying to circle those dates on my calendar, but............


BTW - if anyone's interested, Google just announced that they're offering free in-home wireless broadband service:

http://www.google.com/tisp/