New Jersey is the only state where it is against the law to pump your own gas. Strangely, the people who are paid to pump our gas do not have to have any special training or license to pump gas.
If you like secrets and you love New Jersey this is right up your alley. One publication has named the Garden State's best-kept tourist attraction secret. Do you think you can guess what it is?
Here in New Jersey, we have a rich history as we were one of the original 13 colonies here in the United States. The original 13 colonies were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Acc...
If you have ever been in Southern Ocean County in the area of Little Egg Harbor you may have seen the remnants of what was known as the Stinkhouse on Crab Island.
So let's snap a picture in your mind, a picture of the Garden State circa 1956. I came across this fantastic vintage promotional movie for New Jersey and I wanted to share this trip down memory lane with you.
New Jersey and World War II are not something you always here in the same sentence, but it appears at least at one point they were. Nearly 100 years ago there was a naval incident that did happen during the war just miles off the coast right here in Ocean County and it was on this day in history.