Hi Diezel and All: I know exactly what you are talking about. I left North Bergen in 1955, I would go back maybe twice a year for the next 30 years, every time I returned it was worse and worse. I don't know why people have to throw things out of the cars. I drove back to Union City for my high school reunion in 2000 and it was very discouraging. My parents are buried in the Weehawken Cemetery in NB, I haven't been there since 2000. When my daughter comes up from FL in July I hope she will drive me there. I've lurked in the background and saw the posts. Jim sorry I didn't get to see you while you were in Farmingdale. My sister flew in from CA the same day. Hope you had a nice visit. Take care everyone. It's a hot one here in Jersey. Ann in Farmingdale In a message dated 6/21/2006 7:08:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, DieselDis@aol.com writes: Hi all, I took a trip to Trenton yesterday from here in Pa. They are still working on Rt. 78 from the cut off for the free bridge to Easton, to the old rest area. It's been about three years now, and still a lot to go yet. They are building a rest area on the South side, about where the chicken coop is. For all you none truck drivers, the chicken coup is the truck weigh station. The old Rt. 69, now Rt. 31 is finished all the way to Flemington. If it wasn't for the Railroad bridge in Flemington, it probably would be four lanes all the way to the Flemington Circle. The Flemington Fair Grounds are no longer there. Plowed under just like all the other good memory's along Rt. 31. They are building a new Walmart where the fair grounds used to be. Karen's soft ice cream at Rt. 31 & 534 is also gone. Trenton is still the same. Anyone who lived in Trenton back in the 40s - 60s and went back for a visit would be very upset with the way downtown look's today. I had to pick up a birth & marriage cert. for my sister on South Stockton St. It turned out it was in the old Sears building. I also had to go to City Hall. I drove down the street where my mother grow up (North Stockton St.). Oh my what a mess. What's the big deal about buying a can of paint, and a glass window? How sad to see what has happened to Trenton. Its' not only the people that live there, but the city it's self. I drove to Cuyler Ave where I used to live, another disaster. The old Cook School on Cuyler St. that closed when they built a new school on State St. was turned into a storage place for city of Trenton, They moved out, and it is also a disaster Windows broken out, dirt every where. I think this will be my last visit to that area. I would like to remember it the way it was when I was growing up in the Forty's & Fifty's. Diesel ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx AVFinkel Farmingdale, NJ