We played football and baseball in the streets. When we got bored, we would sometimes set off M-80s.
Wow. I was thinking. The same thing. Westwood for me in ne jersey, Bergen county.
Remember Italian hot dogs? I don't know if they even still exist.
Speaking of things that no longer exist, here is a look back at some of the Jersey places that you grew up with but are no longer here:
Salisbury steak! A blast from the past!
I went to Catholic school in an Italian neighborhood and the boys would bring YUGE meatball sandwiches, dripping red “gravy.” I sat there with my mother’s healthy but horrible natural peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat. The worst was when other kids had fluffer-nutter sandwiches.