Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into New Jersey

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781592233816
• ISBN10: 1592233813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-16
• Publisher: Portable Press

Summary

Digging deep into Hollywood lore, Uncle John's team of researchers cover such topics as Hollywood landmarks and Hollywood murder mysteries for this witty tome sure to keep film buffs enthralled while enthroned.

Table of Contents

Along the Road
Bizarre Buildings	12	(118)
Living Large in New Jersey	130
The Boss & The Chairman
The Boss Sings About Jersey	46	(37)
Sinatra Sampler	83	(65)
Quotes from the Chairman of the Board	148	(44)
The E Street Band	192	(29)
Sinatra's Early Years: True or False?	221
The Dark Side
The Lindbergh Baby, Part I	35	(107)
Westfield's Murder Mystery	142	(40)
Cruising to Catastrophe	182	(27)
The Lindbergh Baby, Part II	209
Eating & Drinking
New Jersey's Best Diners	61	(78)
A Sticky Situation	139	(104)
Grease Is the Word	243
Facts & Figures
Jersey Basics	6	(220)
Oh, the Urbanity!	226	(69)
New Jersey by the Numbers	295
Flora & Fauna
Jersey's Own Jaws	50	(144)
New Jersey and Tomatoes: Perfect Together	194	(67)
Don't Be Afraid	261
Folklore
The Jersey Devil	1	(93)
Things That Go Bump in the Night	94	(172)
Ghosts of Jersey Girls	266
Get Smart!
On the Banks of the Old Raritan	98	(69)
Ivy League Antics	167	(81)
Genius School	248
History
New Jersey Firsts	17	(49)
New Versus Old	66	(5)
Palisades Amusement Park	71	(31)
This Land Is My Land	102	(49)
The Genius on Mercer Street	151	(7)
Pirates of the Jersibbean	158	(17)
Grover's Mill's Martians	175	(81)
U-Who	256	(13)
A Good Start for Sports	269	(19)
The Hindenburg Mystery	288
How Revolutionary!
Camp Morristown	13	(66)
Washington's Rubicon	79	(35)
Looking Back at Nassau Hall	114	(104)
My Bedroom for a Horse!	218
It Came from New Jersey
Big Booming Business	87	(76)
Can It!	163	(36)
Atlantic City's Own Miss America	199	(5)
Amazing Amber	204	(11)
What Exit?	215
It's Official
The Blue and the Buff	33	(43)
Against the Law	76	(51)
Trenton Makes, the World Takes	127	(11)
It's Official	138	(34)
State Tall Ship: A.J. Meerwald	172	(64)
State Dinosaur: Hadrosaurus Foulkii	236	(65)
State Fruit: The Highbush Blueberry	301
Jersey's Hometowns
Named for a Queen?	31	(12)
For Spacious Skies, for Jersey's Land of Maize	43	(26)
Named After a Mall?	69	(43)
A Tale of Two Cape Mays	112	(44)
Falling for Paterson	156	(41)
Stuck in the Middle	197	(27)
Brooklyn, New Jersey?	224	(38)
The Long Beach Island Gateway	262	(44)
A Whole Lot of Nuts	306
Lights! Camera! Action!
The Garden State Goes Hollywood	135	(94)
Family Secrets	229	(42)
Starring Kevin Smith...as Silent Bob	271	(32)
New Jersey Television	303
Native Sons & Daughters
Classic Crank Calls	27	(29)
New Jersey Notables: A Quiz	56	(34)
Books, Bounty Hunters, and the Burg	90	(18)
The Real Rocky	108	(71)
Sons of Jersey: A Quiz	179	(54)
The Wizard of Menlo Park: A Pop Quiz	233	(6)
Are You There, New Jersey? It's Me, Judy.	239	(6)
Meet the Locals	245	(31)
Jersey Boys and Jersey Girls	276	(6)
The AKA Quiz	282	(16)
Jon Stewart: Fake Newsman Extraordinaire	298
Puzzles
Down the Shore	44	(62)
Famous Turnpike Stops	106	(158)
Are You Game for Monopoly?	264	(48)
Roadside New Jersey	312
Sing a Song of Jersey
Count Basie: Red Bank's Royalty	23	(18)
Jersey Sing-Along	41	(78)
100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong	119	(134)
Whitney Houston: By the Numbers	253
Talking the Talk
North and South	188	(3)
You Say "Sub" and We Say "Hoagie"	191	(94)
Jersey Speak	285
That's Not Funny
Rotten Tomatoes	49	(165)
The Bride of Rotten Tomatoes	214	(100)
Rotten Tomatoes: The Final Chapter	314
Things to Do While Passing Through
Inside, Outside, Upside Down	9	(10)
Fishing Holes	19	(105)
Lighthouses Along the Shore	124	(83)
Amuse Yourself!	207	(72)
The Play's the Thing	279	(29)
Got Wheels?	308	(7)
Answers	315