I have been listening to Jean since 1958 on WOR. I was so moved and impressed thatI had a subscription to the Village Voice and frequented the coffee houses therein. Ahh yes, my youth well spent. From Jean I learned about true journalism. Thats why I chose electronics and TV repair. I am retired now going on 82 and look back fondly of my well misspent youth.
I live about 5 miles north of the GWB and am an amateur photographer and I go down and photograph that bridge, from a new angle, of course, about once a month. Walked on a pedestrian prohibited entrance ramp last week-what a shot. PS-Shep is ALWAYS insightful and enlightening. HATE that he’s gone. E!youFatHead.
I’ve lived in New Jersey 65 years and this couldn’t be closer to the truth with those %*#@ traffic circles! I’d search every other possibility just to avoid one of those blasted circles, they’ve aged me considerably!😂😂.
I live along side route one in Pennsylvania, the Fairless Hills part of Pennsylvania , yes the location of a once great steel mill on the Delaware River.
And rt 22 is not actually one of NJs more famous roads. Which makes this more amusing. There are roads and highways that we NJ people would talk about and write about a lot more. So it’s endearing that that is the road he waxes on about.
Shep truly brought out the real underbelly of the United States during the last seven or eight decades of the 20th century. The real neighborhoods of the Midwest and probably East coast. Junkyard and corner taverns were prominent in towns like Chicago, Lemont and Blue Island, Illinois were I grew up in the sixties and seventies. He captured Americana as it really was.
