Random Question about New Jersey. Does Plainfield, NJ still exist or not. I Grew Up There....

[Mike 03]

I have been hanging out on another chat for people who suffer from depression, and we were talking about where we grew up, and I said I grew up in New Jersey. And they, naturally, asked where, and I said Plainfield, and that I was very young at the time, but I thought it was close to route 22 and close to Newark, and that my dad used to take the train to New York.

So, I'm going through a difficult time now, trying to remember my past, and not all of it is easy to remember.

The people who said they lived in New Jersey said there was no Plainfield.

I suppose I'm just in a weak or vulnerable state now, but Plainfield is my main association with the past. My dad is dying of cancer. So I'm in a sort of a bad state, trying to make peace with my past, and I grew up in this place, and they are telling me it doesn't exist.

Does Plainfield, NJ still exist or not?

[lost-in-nj]

1. it's there

I PROMISE!!!!





aww Mike

you are not crazy

its here

:hug:


lost

[Mike 03]

3. Thank you my friend.

Thank you more than you can ever know.

Was it close to a highway called Route 22?

[Chan790]

5. Yes.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=plainfield+nj&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=image

Google Map.

[LostinVA]

6. 24

[lost-in-nj]

8. 22 is close to

Scotch Plains

but close enough you probably drove it!!


lost

[Mike 03]

7. Nevermind, there's route 22. That is my where my dad used to take each of us for dinner each week,

to have father/son and father/daughter time.

Wow.

Thank you. There are tears in my eyes now. I wish I could visit that place.

[Chan790]

2. It exists.

I'm not even a Jersey person but a perfunctory Google search says your "Joisey" peeps are full of shit. It even has a Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield,_New_Jersey

As of 2000, it had a population of 47,829.

[PeaceNikki]

4. It appears to be there. Google Maps even has street views of it.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Plainfield,+NJ&z=13&g=Plainfield,+NJ&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.614966,-74.417328&panoid=9k7v5-JOq4t_leTRzfH0jg&cbp=12,0,,0,5

[Mike 03]

9. Thank you all, I should have just looked it up. I was so upset for some

reason. I'm sorry, and thank you.

[Mike 03]

10. Wow, a lot of memories are coming back to me, including my parents taking me to an amazing amusement

park called Pallisades, where there was a Casper the Ghost Ride.

[alsame]

11. I grew up in NYC and my parents used to take us to Palisades

Amusement Park. It was great! And there used to be a song jingle advertising it, it was played on AM radio all summer long.

ETA: I found the lyrics. Do you remember this?

Palisades has the rides... Palisades has the fun... Come On Over.
Shows and dancing are free... so's the parking, so gee... Come On Over.
Palisades from coast to coast, where a dime buys the most.
Palisades Amusement Park. Swings all day and after dark.
(bumm, baa, dumm, bumm, bummmm)
Ride the coaster... Get cool... In the waves in the pool.
You'll have fun... so... Come On Over.
(dumm de dum da dum... dum)

[NNadir]

12. Oh yeah.

There's a part of South Plainfield that's been ripped up though because it's a superfund site.

There was an old capacitor plant there and the ground is permaeated with PCB's.