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The New Jersey Turnpike (shortened to NJTP and colloquially known to New Jerseyans as "the Turnpike") is a toll road in New Jersey, maintained by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. According to the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, the Turnpike is the nation's sixth-busiest toll road and is one of the most heavily traveled highways in the United States. The Turnpike is a major thoroughfare providing access to various localities in New Jersey, as well as Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York. The route divides into four roadways at exit 6, with lanes restricted to carrying only cars, and with lanes for cars, trucks and buses.
The northern part of the mainline turnpike, along with the entirety of its extensions and spurs, is part of the Interstate Highway System, designated as Interstate 95 (I-95) between exit 6 and its northern end. Construction of the mainline from conceptualization to completion took 23 months, from 1950 to 1952. It was officially opened to traffic in November 1951, between its southern terminus and exit 10.
The Turnpike has 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) lanes, 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) shoulders, 13 rest areas named after notable residents of New Jersey, and unusual exit signage that was considered the pinnacle of highway building in the 1950s. The Interstate Highway System took some of its design guidelines by copying the Turnpike's design guidelines. To some degree, the Turnpike is considered iconic in pop culture, having been referenced in music, film and television.
The task of building the Turnpike was not an easy one. One major problem was the construction in the city of Elizabeth, where either 450 homes or 32 businesses would be destroyed, depending on the chosen route. The engineers decided to go through the residential area, since they considered it the grittiest and the closest route to both Newark Airport and the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal seaport.
When construction finally got to Newark, there was the new challenge of deciding to build either over or under the Pulaski Skyway. If construction went above the Skyway, the costs would be much higher. If they went under, the costs would be lower, but the roadway would be very close to the Passaic River, making it harder for ships to pass through. The Turnpike was ultimately built to pass under. As part of a 2005 seismic retrofit project, the Turnpike Authority lowered its roadway to increase vertical clearance and allow for full-width shoulders, which had been constrained by the location of the skyway supports.[31] Engineers replaced the bearings and lowered the bridge by four feet (1.2 m), without shutting down traffic. The work was carried out under a $35 million contract in 2004 by Koch Skanska of Carteret, New Jersey. The engineers for the project were from a joint venture of Dewberry Goodking Inc. and HNTM Corp. Temporary towers were used to support the bridge while bearings were removed from each of the 150 piers and the concrete replaced on the pier tops. The lowering process for an 800-foot (240 m) section of the bridge was done over 56 increments, during five weeks of work.
While continuing up to the New Jersey Meadowlands, the crossings were harder because of the fertile marsh land of silt and mud. Near the shallow mud, the mud was filled with crushed stone, and the roadway was built above the water table. In the deeper mud, caissons were sunk down to a firm stratum and filled with sand, then both the caissons and the surrounding areas were covered with blankets of sand. Gradually, the water was brought up, and drained into adjacent meadows. Then, the construction of the two major bridges over the Passaic River and Hackensack River were completed. The bridges were built to give motorists a clear view of the New York City skyline, but with high retaining walls to create the illusion of not being on a river crossing. The 6,955 ft (2,120 m) Passaic River (Chaplain Washington) Bridge cost $13.7 million to construct and the 5,623 ft (1,714 m) Hackensack River Bridge cost $9.5 million.
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@russg1801
@russg1801 7 лет назад
That 'heavy' traffic of the 1950's looks pretty tame today, eh?
@honeyglazedhams8188
@honeyglazedhams8188 4 года назад
Narrator: "Solving the problem of traffic congestion once and for all!" "But, what about--" Narrator: "ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
@pqrstzxerty1296
@pqrstzxerty1296 4 года назад
Has the turnpike got a super by-pass now, also tolled ?
@fairfaxcat1312
@fairfaxcat1312 3 года назад
So glad to hear that.
@jhancock1575
@jhancock1575 7 лет назад
The golden age of automobiles. The future is bright! Classic promo film.
@swdashcams4476
@swdashcams4476 4 года назад
Man, the New Jersey state troopers seems so nice back in the 50s. Good luck finding New Jersey state troopers who are that nice in 2019.
@stevenn9072
@stevenn9072 4 года назад
Challenge Excepted! I’ll be back in a couple of months.
@godoftheinterwebz
@godoftheinterwebz 2 года назад
a year later and @@stevenn9072 is still not back
@angelic_disappointment7889
@angelic_disappointment7889 2 года назад
@@godoftheinterwebz seems like it’s harder than he thought
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 2 года назад
There okay. Nicer than town cops in this state. I met a few off duty.
@louielouie5150
@louielouie5150 Год назад
ah yes it was great getting arrested back then...good old days.
@CycolacFan
@CycolacFan 4 года назад
"You were warned about your fan belt buddy and you chose to ignore that good advice, now you'll get what's coming to ya..."
@christopherlucy1772
@christopherlucy1772 4 года назад
Ya,I chged one once what a pain adjusting it w the alternator bkt,
@jeffreybarna6543
@jeffreybarna6543 4 года назад
Did anyone else wonder...why did a '53 Plymouth need a new fan belt in 1953?
@russelljohnson1303
@russelljohnson1303 4 года назад
I own a 1953 Plymouth myself. The fan belt is really easy to change. And adjusting the generator isn't that hard. Now lower rad hose is a different story. To change that the entire radiator needs to come out.
@mrdiplomat9018
@mrdiplomat9018 3 года назад
@@jeffreybarna6543 - certainly NOT because it was made in China 🤪😂👊🏻🇺🇸🎯
@jonstefanik9400
@jonstefanik9400 3 года назад
I call that guy "The Asshole". The Asshole who wouldn't listen.
@LMacNeill
@LMacNeill 4 года назад
11:52 -- Dispatch: "Gas call, 86 South, '53 Pontiac..." Driver: "Ok, flat tire, 91 North...." Clearly government services haven't changed much since the '50s. 😂🤣
@samuelluria4744
@samuelluria4744 3 года назад
You need to listen again. It wasn't quite how you are presenting.
@almostfm
@almostfm 3 года назад
Welcome to the wonderful world of "script changes during production"
@himssendol6512
@himssendol6512 4 года назад
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America
@kman-mi7su
@kman-mi7su 4 года назад
Yes, great band
@MrJstorm4
@MrJstorm4 3 года назад
What song is that
@SFbank721
@SFbank721 3 года назад
Simon & Garfunkel. Yes covered it also
@MrJstorm4
@MrJstorm4 3 года назад
@@SFbank721 what song is that
@mauromoreira8202
@mauromoreira8202 3 года назад
Simon and Garfunkel - America
@jonstefanik9400
@jonstefanik9400 4 года назад
Was waiting for a kid to say, "Gee, that would be swell!"
@mattyian1208
@mattyian1208 4 года назад
Jon Stefanik Gee, that would be swell!
@dennisalexanderreilly8624
@dennisalexanderreilly8624 3 года назад
Gee, Thanks Mr. Wilson!
@Modeltnick
@Modeltnick 5 лет назад
I used to ride on this road with my dad when I was a kid living in Irvington. It was always fun to get out on the open road and travel at "turnpike" speeds in our 1955 Ford. I remember there used to be signs posted along the way that read "Speeders Lose Licenses". Not so much today. Thanks for the memories!
@christopherlucy1772
@christopherlucy1772 4 года назад
Yeah before the 1973 oil shock..I hitch hiked over it in the 1970s to Newport news Va and my Aunt's house from Massachusetts..some sections were 6 lanes each side?..
@upeedinalamb5297
@upeedinalamb5297 9 лет назад
As a lamb I found this to be mesmerizing.
@oilsmokejones3452
@oilsmokejones3452 8 лет назад
+Upeedina Lamb I just wonder what ever happened to "pikettes"..
@SevenFootPelican
@SevenFootPelican 8 лет назад
+Upeedina Lamb So cute.
@sonnypruitt6639
@sonnypruitt6639 4 года назад
Yeah, it wasn't so baaaaaad!
@jackgoldstein2254
@jackgoldstein2254 2 года назад
I love watching these old films. My family (before and after I was born, in 1960) used to travel the NJ Turnpike going from Norfolk to New York and Connecticut to visit relatives. My parents would let me get on the drivers side back window and throw coins in the basket, or hand tolls to the collectors. Great memories!
@russelljohnson1303
@russelljohnson1303 4 года назад
I own a 1953 Plymouth and it's interesting to see the world she comes from.
@russelljohnson1303
@russelljohnson1303 4 года назад
@Butch Jones my 53 Plymouth is the top trim Cranbrook. Short rear window club coupe.
@russelljohnson1303
@russelljohnson1303 4 года назад
@Butch Jones other than Facebook I'm not sure.
@samedeepwater3
@samedeepwater3 7 лет назад
wow such service back then how we have fallen in the pride and respect we had for each other back then.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 6 лет назад
samedeepwater3 Service is still exactly like that on the NJTP. One of only two full service gas states left. I worked on the pike, you are required to wash the windshields, ask to check the oil, look for bad tires. The vans still go out for break downs. Only difference now is its Sunoco and they all have roofs over the gas pumps. You also get a lot of tips out their for providing full service.
@johnathandaviddunster38
@johnathandaviddunster38 Год назад
Kkk was going GREAT GUNS in the fifties also the c.i.a was propping up countless inhumane dictatorships !!!
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 9 лет назад
The southern 34 miles of the Turnpike is still in the original 2 lanes each way while the rest has been widened, the most recent, was between exits 6 and 9, and completed in late 2014. Wow, what a wonderful film, where did you ever find this?
@PeriscopeFilm
@PeriscopeFilm 9 лет назад
Mitch Dakelman We look everywhere for things of quality Mitch! BTW are you the author of the book "Images of America: The New Jersey Turnpike"? It's marvelous. www.amazon.com/Images-America-The-Pennsylvania-Turnpike/dp/073853532X
@Exakta66
@Exakta66 8 лет назад
+PeriscopeFilm That link is a actually to the Pennsylvania Turnpike book, which is apparently the one he wrote...neat little film here, and a reminder of what things looked like back in the day...
@charlieirvin5423
@charlieirvin5423 8 лет назад
If i may ask how many cars ever got Clobbered In the Rear back in those days on the Turmpike?
@michaelmccarthy4615
@michaelmccarthy4615 4 года назад
The turnpike is a major cash cow today. The authorities are being sued to the tune of $9 billion by trucking associations. They over charge tolls and redirect money for expenses not in their charter of purpose. Motorists are getting ripped off.
@77Keith
@77Keith 4 года назад
This is really a gem, very well narrated film
@bloqk16
@bloqk16 Год назад
When the film talks about the service trucks requiring nearly everything an automobile needs, with the spare parts that are shown, it got me thinking of the quality improvements there's been with fan belts and radiator hoses over the years. Back when I first started motoring in the US a half-century ago, radiator hoses were good for around five years before failure. Broken fan belts used to litter the freeways I drove on. Nowadays, a radiator hose can last 15 years or more; and I can't recall the last time I saw a broken fan belt on the roadway.
@T-Bone-Grizzle
@T-Bone-Grizzle 5 лет назад
I like the way the gentleman tipped their hats. It's a great gesture. I gots to get me a fedora!
@johnp139
@johnp139 4 года назад
They should have cited that guy for littering when he just threw his fan belt on the ground, not to mention the cigarette he threw on the ground.
@marklittler784
@marklittler784 7 лет назад
Brillant clear film footage of these great looking classic cars.
@jpsned
@jpsned 2 года назад
Back when cars had personalities! 👍
@marklittler784
@marklittler784 2 года назад
@@jpsned Exactly
@jpsned
@jpsned 2 года назад
@@marklittler784 🙂
@nickakers7985
@nickakers7985 8 лет назад
Oh how things have changed. Today you'd never hear a planning agency or department bragging about how MUCH something cost. Today people will often avoid the highways if they can because they're congested in many major cities. And not really related to the highway itself, but I chuckled when they mentioned that smoke might be a visibility issue in industrial areas, classic.
@kfl611
@kfl611 3 года назад
Industry in India and China highways now, not ours.
@deplorable3657
@deplorable3657 7 лет назад
i remember living in new jersey as a kid. i remember the big inspection stickers
@OldsVistaCruiser
@OldsVistaCruiser 5 лет назад
NJ inspection stickers are a lot bigger than when I was a kid, and they moved from the passenger side to the driver's side. They now only test for emissions.
@girtisholland
@girtisholland 2 года назад
I remember when we were poor and our car wouldn’t pass inspection my mom would hand craft amazing looking inspection stickers that looked good at a glance from passerby police.
@hardlyb
@hardlyb 4 года назад
Don't forget the two most interesting aspects of the Jersey Turnpike: the bizarre smells and the huge volume of speeding tickets (which generated more than enough to pay for the special contingent of highway patrol). The speed limit was very low, and they'd nail you for going 1mph faster.
@hardlyb
@hardlyb 4 года назад
​@Butch Jones I don't want to think about the cost of that ticket! The contrast with the Garden State Parkway was extreme - they apparently didn't care how fast you drove there. My personal top speed was on the Garden State, when was a teenager (in the early 70's). I was going 123, I think. The tires on the car were underinflated and they started to disintegrate, so I had to stop. This took quite a while in a 1971 Sedan De Ville, which was slightly larger than the Queen Mary. The car belonged to the father of my best friend, and my friend was annoyed because he had wanted to drive fast after me, and now couldn't. However, the next summer he found a deserted road on Grand Bahama Island, and got their 'island car' up to over 140, an event I wasn't present to see.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 2 года назад
They typically allow you to average 75 without issue. Most cars average that speed out there anyway. I got pulled over doing 90, 8 years ago on there. He said if I had been doing 75 he would have left me alone.
@cjpatz
@cjpatz 4 года назад
Back when when everybody dressed up to go for a drive.
@77Keith
@77Keith 4 года назад
And that there was actual courtesy too. Now one has to hope that some a hole does`nt slam into you while they pass on the right and just miss your bumper.
@gregorypeterman6216
@gregorypeterman6216 4 года назад
@@77Keith they used to have highway signs that said KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS. Nowadays many folks do not know its illegal to pass on the right.
@kylefanning1126
@kylefanning1126 3 года назад
People actually had respect for theirselves and others back in those days!
@Dalt21
@Dalt21 3 года назад
Kyle Fanning so you’re saying because I don’t want to put on a suit every time I drive, that I don’t have respect for myself?
@kfl611
@kfl611 3 года назад
My mom said you just did not go out, unless you were dressed up, hat, gloves, nice shoes, ironed clothes.....a totally different era.
@scratchdog2216
@scratchdog2216 4 года назад
More traffic than planned from day one. Why am I not surprised. The Massachusetts Turnpike video is a hoot too.
@bloqk16
@bloqk16 Год назад
At around @16:30 into this film: What a marvelous time-capsule this is of what motoring life was like in the US back in the 1950s; when motorists were lavished with service. And notice that the traveling public back then always dressed up. Traveling back then meant you had to make yourself presentable with dressing to impress. Casual dress for traveling motorists was for campers, fishing, or hunters. Ah! For that guy waiting for roadside service with smoking a cigarette . . . typical smoking of a cigarette could take up to 10 minutes.
@rjmcallister1888
@rjmcallister1888 7 лет назад
Cities Service changed colors and names in the late 60's to Citgo, and was later sold to Venezuelan interests in the 1980's. This 1954 film predates the Interstate Highway Act by two years.
@davestewart2067
@davestewart2067 5 лет назад
Yes they later became the symbol of Hugo Chavez. There was a huge neon Citgo sign just outside Boston's Fenway park for years. Guessing it went away when the company went to Venezuela
@fromthesidelines
@fromthesidelines 5 лет назад
Cities Service became "Citgo" in 1965.
@MrHmg55
@MrHmg55 5 лет назад
@@davestewart2067 It's still there, preserved as a landmark. Citgo no longer pays for it as an advertising vehicle.
@chuckschafer942
@chuckschafer942 4 года назад
1965
@jeffreybarna6543
@jeffreybarna6543 4 года назад
"We've changed into something with zoom. Watch our zoom we'll show you how...Cities Service is Citgo now."
@customkey
@customkey 7 лет назад
I'm pretty sure the big Chrysler New Yorker that cruises by in the passing lane at 19:15 was an unmarked troop car. The NJSP began using Chryslers as unmarked patrol around 1951 or '52. By the mid to late 50s all the turnpike patrol cars were New Yorkers. I remember them being painted grey and we called them Grey Ghosts because of their speed. Also, the New Brunswick Administration building pictured in this film has been torn down. I drove past there today and it's just cement rubble now.
@anotherview9604
@anotherview9604 6 лет назад
In 1962, a friend of mine who knew a trooper on the pike said they had one unmarked cordovan colored New Yorker that was fuel injected (mechanical of course).
@TrainsFerriesFeet
@TrainsFerriesFeet 5 лет назад
I grew up just off exit 9; I hate to hear the old admin building has been torn down.
@fromthesidelines
@fromthesidelines 4 года назад
14:01- The Turnpike initially made a deal with Cities Service [which became "Citgo" in 1965] to provide gasoline at all of their rest stops.
@twoarrows2543
@twoarrows2543 4 года назад
I did not know that!! Thanks!!!
@fromthesidelines
@fromthesidelines 4 года назад
You're welcome. :)
@jasonfullerton7763
@jasonfullerton7763 3 года назад
Now they are all Sunoco (Sun Oil). The prices are changed once per week to some sort of calculated average of local gas prices. They can be a really good deal when the price of gas jumps significantly during the week, as the prices cannot change except for that one time per week.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 2 года назад
@@jasonfullerton7763 Noy anymore. I used to work out there. It used to be every Thursday night. They raised it on a Tuesday mid day to stay above. That one isn't set in stone, I've seen them break that several times. Power of the oil companies.
@19irving
@19irving 6 лет назад
What few people know is that Eisenhower patterned the U.S. Interstate system after the highway system Hitler had created in Germany. The latter helped move his troops, weapons and prisoners. When Eisenhower was in Germany during WWII, he was very impressed.
@sdlcman1
@sdlcman1 5 лет назад
Germany's Autobahn enabled them to mobilize rapidly. Ours was to help evacuate the cities in a nuclear war. True.
@DTD110865
@DTD110865 5 лет назад
@@sdlcman1 The Autobahn pre-dated Hitler's rise to power.
@christianplatzbecker1784
@christianplatzbecker1784 4 года назад
D. Garbato. Sorry this is wrong! The first modern Highway (Autobahn) build at 1926 in west Germany, between Köln and Bonn. The have all details at a modern Autobahn. The Demokratic Republic have a plan to build 2000km modern Autobahn in Germany. But the big depression 1929 stop this plan. Hitler hate the Autobahn and stop the idea ~1930. But 1933 as Hitler was "Reichskanzler" he rebout the program.
@jayg750
@jayg750 Год назад
Wow never know that
@Zulnex
@Zulnex 6 лет назад
Splendid video! Thank you very much for sharing.
@markd1672
@markd1672 7 лет назад
People had respect for others back then. Now it's what I can do for me and no one else.
@Ben942K
@Ben942K 4 года назад
As they family says it's too dangerous to pull over for a broken down car on the road so why would anybody stop for them? Lol
@stephenraymond8414
@stephenraymond8414 4 года назад
@@flightforensics4523 That's good...😀
@jhonwask
@jhonwask 4 года назад
I love these roadway videos.
@chadharmon5716
@chadharmon5716 4 года назад
New Jersey troopers still put on the same uniforms 😆
@georgesetzer5283
@georgesetzer5283 4 года назад
The first commandant of the NJ State Troopers was Norman Schwartzkopf Sr. the generals father. He based the troopers uniforms on the Nazi SS uniforms. You can look it up...lol
@ziggyzeke6256
@ziggyzeke6256 3 года назад
@@georgesetzer5283 Wow
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 4 года назад
There's a good selection of classic cars in this film ranging from Cadillacs to Fords.
@geralderdek282
@geralderdek282 6 месяцев назад
Great seeing the cars I love in daily service ! Many of those older cars built before the mid 50s were not designed to handle high speed hour after hour turnpike or interstate driving. Burned out bearings were often the result. Mercury came out with a model called the Turnpike Cruiser in 1957. Cars like it could run at 70+mph all day long and be as quiet inside as a funeral parlor on an off day😊
@oilsmokejones3452
@oilsmokejones3452 8 лет назад
Oldest trick in the book..the City Service guy cut the fan belt 1/2 way and followed in the truck..slick...but whatever happened to "pikettes"..???
@bobt5778
@bobt5778 7 лет назад
YES! Same guys who would wipe the dipstick short and suggest a quart of oil, back when an attendant checked under your hood during a routine fill up!
@JeffDeWitt
@JeffDeWitt 7 лет назад
That was called "short sticking" and if you were lucky they DIDN'T put in the quart of oil you paid for.
@tomlangley8852
@tomlangley8852 6 лет назад
The 'Piketts' are now known as 'Lot Lizzards'
@fairfaxcat1312
@fairfaxcat1312 6 лет назад
Oilsmoke Jones But NJ is still the safest state for motor deaths and the cheapest on gasoline even though the attendants always pump it for you by law.
@DTD110865
@DTD110865 5 лет назад
@@fairfaxcat1312 I'm afraid the days of New Jersey being cheapest on gas are long since over. There was a real cutie who worked over at the Walt Whitman Service Area for a while. She was way better looking than those "Pikettes."
@stardustdreamfactory1947
@stardustdreamfactory1947 7 лет назад
Enjoyed this. Thanks!
@joestewart8914
@joestewart8914 4 года назад
10:50 Look at the shine on those boots. Pride.
@cjpatz
@cjpatz 4 года назад
They’ve made it a 12 lane highway on the northern portion and it still manages to get jammed during rush hr.
@georgeharleydavidsonrider156
@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 4 года назад
Clint Patac Unbelievable.
@chriscollins570
@chriscollins570 5 лет назад
Service Plazas monopolized by Sunoco and HMS Host Foodservice, yet always a fun drive. Walt Whitman Roy Rogers overcooked their Roast Beef last week. Z-1000, No Turns. Take I-295 from Delaware Bridge to exit 7 Trenton/Bordentown to save a few bucks!
@JimAllen-Persona
@JimAllen-Persona 4 года назад
Chris Collins much better now that they got rid of that sharp curve at the interchange by Philly.
@TnseWlms
@TnseWlms 4 года назад
In college some of us used faulty logic proving a theorem. Our professor compared our logic with "I want to go to New York but the New Jersey Turnpike is closed. Therefore I can't get to New York."
@Scambush
@Scambush 8 лет назад
If only New Jersey were this pleasant to drive through today... though at least we don't have to worry about sitting on the side of the road hoping that Cities Service will come since you didn't have no mobile phones.
@jpsned
@jpsned 2 года назад
So much talent here is uncredited... such as who the narrator is, and who wrote the music, and what group performed the music. Perhaps, just maybe, that's stored in some old file cabinet somewhere... 🙂
@tropicallover19
@tropicallover19 9 лет назад
I love the images of America books. In fact I'm a Burlington County NJ resident thank you lots for this upload I travel the Turnpike a lot. I have a book on the Garden State Parkway too and that is also operated by The Turnpike Authority.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 6 лет назад
Timbucktoo Rock Now it is. The parkway used to be its own entity.
@DTD110865
@DTD110865 5 лет назад
I want to look into a book on the Garden State Parkway now. I have a paperback copy of the one on the Turnpike.
@edvardsz3539
@edvardsz3539 5 лет назад
The numbers he told... simply amazing.
@christophers.o622
@christophers.o622 5 лет назад
I rode on the New Jersey Turnpike when I lived in Elwood,New Jersey. The first time I rode it was when my late father drove to New York City to visit his aunt & uncle. The second time was when I first visited Washington!DC. Today on the New Jersey Turnpike Sunoco is the one selling the gasoline. Howard zjohnson’s is gone.
@jang190
@jang190 4 года назад
Butch Jones If you were on it on May 10, 2020, it was Mother’s Day-it was much more crowded than its been with the lockdown, but not as crowded as it would’ve been on a non-pandemic Mother’s Day. I was on it, too.
@galebailey5583
@galebailey5583 5 лет назад
Back in the late sixties and seventies I remember there was a Howard Johnson’s restaurant at practically every reststop. But apparently there weren’t any of those yet in the fifties...
@christopherlucy1772
@christopherlucy1772 4 года назад
It looked like a HOJO sign in the film.. yummy 🍨
@icecreamforcrowhurst
@icecreamforcrowhurst 9 месяцев назад
14:17 apparently you are wrong about Ho Jo’s not being around in the 50’s!
@robertcuminale1212
@robertcuminale1212 7 лет назад
I drove and rode the turnpike for years. I've traveled this whole country and no roads compare to it. Even in the worst weather it was always passable if only one lane. I rode from Exit 16 to exit 2 six days a week (later exit 5). The cost seems to be out of proportion today but it was very reasonable in the 1970s.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 6 лет назад
Robert Cuminale It was reasonable until about 2009, thats right around when tolls tripled and train fares tripled up here. Before that commuting was cheap in NJ
@captainmorgan1107
@captainmorgan1107 4 года назад
You know you're old when you remember manned tollbooths with the attendant handing you the toll ticket when you entered the turnpike, although I'm not old enough to remember the NJ turnpike with only four lanes.
@girtisholland
@girtisholland 2 года назад
I remember manned booths up until not too long ago.
@choptanktuxent2
@choptanktuxent2 9 лет назад
Mitch, you and your PA Tpk. coauthor did a wonderful, splendid job with that book. And kudos to Arcadia's NJ Tpk. author(s) and their book too. I grew up in SE PA and grew up with those roads (not to mention the DuPont Parkway [another Images of America subject] and the JFK Memorial Hwy. :) ). The Arcadia books, whatever their subjects, are well worth reading if the subject resonates with someone or other.P.S. Periscope, I bookmarked this vid for future viewing when time permits.
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 8 лет назад
+John Laszek My coauthor on the Pa Turnpike is Neal Schorr, a wonderful guy and a good friend.
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 8 лет назад
+John Laszek We are finishing a new Pennsylvania Turnpike book for Arcadia, different format, and we will be publishing many newly discovered archival photos including the 1937 South Penn survey, original construction and the new construction happening in recent years on the Turnpike. Look for it by Christmas! Mitch
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 9 лет назад
I am the co-author of IMAGES OF AMERICA: THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE, with Neal A. Schorr. The New Jersey Turnpike book was authored by NJ Turnpike staff although I loaned them several pictures for use in their book.
@PeriscopeFilm
@PeriscopeFilm 9 лет назад
Mitch Dakelman Writing books about the turnpikes sure must take its toll. Keep it up!
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 9 лет назад
PeriscopeFilm Where ever you go in the northeast, there are tolls for the various parkways, turnpikes and bridges. Tolls never go away. They keep raising the prices. Its just another tax to deal with.
@DTD110865
@DTD110865 9 лет назад
+Mitch Dakelman They got rid of the ones on the Parkways of New York (as well as the Connecticut Turnpike), except at the beaches and parks, but yeah, you're right about them raising the prices. I have a copy of that book, as well as the one on the New Jersey Turnpike. I only wish my Kindle Fire would let you zoom in on a lot of these images.
@Larson4Liberty
@Larson4Liberty 8 лет назад
+DTD110865 I live in Wyoming. I often travel the I-80 out east for business. There are tolls on almost every stretch east of Chicago. It is a bit annoying but with the EZ Pass it's a breeze. Plus, toll highways are usually in better shape than toll-free ones. Just wish they would not raise both tolls and gas taxes at the same time.
@DTD110865
@DTD110865 8 лет назад
S R Larson Well, sure. You have the Indiana Tollway, the Ohio Turnpike until you reach Cleveland and the bridge over the Delaware Water Gap.
@stevensievert8375
@stevensievert8375 7 лет назад
Wish you could still drive the turnpike on a holiday without delay, even some non holidays there are delays because of heavy traffic.
@bearcolombia
@bearcolombia 8 лет назад
Nice. I remember when we used to wear suits and ties and hats to drive our own families in our own car while on vacation. Just kidding. I don't.
@deplorable3657
@deplorable3657 7 лет назад
my father always wore a suit and tie. ww2 generation
@gregorypeterman6216
@gregorypeterman6216 4 года назад
In the 60s and 70s grown men did not wear short pants in public, unless at beach or pool.
@pointingdog7235
@pointingdog7235 3 года назад
I loved the Ford F-8 tractor trailer in the beginning. And the Trooper changing the speed limit from 60 to 35 due to weather conditions.
@jacksmith5692
@jacksmith5692 4 года назад
I remember the late 1960's when they expanded to 12 lanes after exit 8A. Homes in Fords were moved to widen the turnpike where exchange 10 to 11 was. Exit 10 was for Rt 287 and exit 11 was for the GSP.
@lylebarnard7447
@lylebarnard7447 4 года назад
It's 2019 I thought we'd Live Like The Jetsons and would be all running around in flying cars I guess that didn't happen
@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983
@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983 4 года назад
I've actually given this some thought, just for the hell of it. Flying cars never made sense. A Piper Cub aircraft or even a small helicopter is essentially a flying car. There's nothing remotely convenient about it compared to an actual car if millions of people were commuting in such a device. Millions of people trying to commute in a "flying car" would never be practical. On the other hand, a smartphone is far more impressive than anything that was ever dreamed of back in the middle of the 20th century when the concept of flying cars captivated people. Imagine trying to explain the capabilities of a smartphone to someone in the middle of the 20th century. While conceptually they'd have no problem imagining a flying car, they almost certainly would be mind-blown by the description of a smartphone. So my point is, "the future" turned out even better than imagined, back in the day.
@georgeharleydavidsonrider156
@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 4 года назад
Lyle Barnard Me too Brother. 🛸
@tolfan4438
@tolfan4438 4 года назад
Can you imagine your mom driving a flying car
@lylebarnard7447
@lylebarnard7447 4 года назад
@@tolfan4438 no my mother is in her grave that would be quite a trick if she could drive at all
@77Keith
@77Keith 4 года назад
I used to think the same thing but the way traffic is on the Turmpike there would probably be dogfights midair.
@pbcanal1
@pbcanal1 4 года назад
The New York state archives has a series on the NYS Thruway. Worth watching. Almost the same narrative.
@robfassi3297
@robfassi3297 4 года назад
Those orange neon signs that said drive slow were used for such a long time, they were just recently removed and upgraded
@Michael-vm3nu
@Michael-vm3nu 4 года назад
Wow must have been a crazy experience breaking down before cell phones lol.
@edlawn5481
@edlawn5481 4 года назад
If only Sonny Corleone had an EZ-Pass.
@dena81
@dena81 3 месяца назад
I've driven that turnpike many many many many times... 4 days a week driving from the Jersey shore to Manhattan... And if someone told me during those drives that it was a 'Triumph' in any way other than driving my blood pressure up, I'd side eye them.
@johnorlitta
@johnorlitta 7 лет назад
Those bridges passing over the Turnpike at 5:05 are the Garden State Parkway and Woodbridge Ave.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 6 лет назад
johnorlitta Now their is a third bridge above those two.
@BeCoShooter
@BeCoShooter 4 года назад
That's Main St. (Woodbridge) on top, with the Garden State Parkway in the middle. And there is not a fourth layer to this stack.
@Railfan56
@Railfan56 Год назад
I had the pleasure to work for Howard Johnson's back in 1972-73, at the Molly Pitcher service plaza in Cranbury NJ. Back when folks had the time to sit down and enjoy a full meal. Marriott won the contract in Oct 1973 with the promise of better food - and that didn't happen. Nothing could beat the smell of fresh dinner rolls right out of the oven, along with fresh baked pies, and the famous HJ Ice Cream.
@seand67
@seand67 6 лет назад
Amazing
@DSDaly
@DSDaly 3 года назад
Interesting 👍 love my state. So many bitter people with negative comments. Go move to Delaware if ya don't like it!
@jpsned
@jpsned 2 года назад
NJ's the best! 🙂
@rsattahip
@rsattahip 8 лет назад
NJ is already the highest tax state. and the turnpike is paid for. Isn't it about time to make it a freeway?
@schwenda3727
@schwenda3727 8 лет назад
+Adam Guzman idk about removing tolls either... Isn't the whole interstate-style fund all highways & bridges by tax $$$ (with the budget, to a significant degree, made up by politicians who either have more than enough on their plate, don't care, or literally have to make EVERYTHING personal & about them on EVERY issue, etc.) If our nation's leaders of that era, including Eisenhower himself, realized how big a problem it'd be to CONTINUOUSLY fund the roads, we'd all probably have a whole lot more Parkways, Tollways & Turnpikes in the Pacific, Midwest (away from the Great Lakes) & the Deep South today!!!
@Rickyrab
@Rickyrab 8 лет назад
+Robin Sattahip Well, if the Turnpike is de-tolled, then that'll probably increase NJ taxes. The NJ Transportation Trust Fund needs more money, and it needs to get weaned off its pernicious (and expensive) habit of excessively relying on loans. Right now, all of its money is on the verge of going to debt service, and sooner or later the fund might have to default if a solution is not found.
@deplorable3657
@deplorable3657 7 лет назад
if the tolls are removed imagine how much can be saved by downsizing these toll agency
@buixrule
@buixrule 7 лет назад
Robin Sattahip if there's one thing I've ever learned, it's that no toll road ever became a freeway. We still keep believing that's the way it will work though. Look at the Mass. Pike. They were supposed to get rid of tolls once the road was paid for. lol. They finally did get rid the toll booths last year and everything's electronic now. so now they can make even more money because they do not have to pay ungodly salaries to toll takers any longer. I guess the road is never really "paid for" is it.
@schwenda3727
@schwenda3727 7 лет назад
Kentucky had COUNTLESS toll roads around 35-40 years ago. All the rural ones had tolls removed within the past 10-20 years due to Kentucky having a law stating that tolls have to be removed the very instant the construction costs are paid off. Hopefully the same applies, for Louisville commuters' sake, for the two brand new Ohio River Bridges (and a tunnel)...
@stevendenton4965
@stevendenton4965 4 года назад
Tennessee has trucks like the ones in this film except they're yellow and bigger. It's great to have them cruising the freeways.
@robertmess9820
@robertmess9820 3 года назад
Great New Jersey history
@charlieirvin5423
@charlieirvin5423 8 лет назад
when i was a little kid My Dad and mom took me and my sisters and little brother to see our Grandparents in north jersey Lawerence Harbor nj and we took the turmpike
@edwu8253
@edwu8253 7 лет назад
Its funny to see all those American built cars
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 4 года назад
You mean well built stylish American cars we took pride in without competing foreign cars, yea it was nice.
@gregorypeterman6216
@gregorypeterman6216 4 года назад
@@Mr_Tecumseh not as nice as a Honda, I remember.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 4 года назад
@@gregorypeterman6216 Never owned a Honda car, but do own a Honda lawn tractor that was imported from Japan and it was built like a Cadillac, literally Its the Cadillac of lawn tractors, no other tractor foreign or Domestic comes close to that thing, of course you paid for that luxury, anout 6 grand in 1998 vs 1500 for a typical lawn tractor and if theirs one thing I know, nothing drives as smooth as Cadillac or Lincoln, especially down the Turnpike goin 75, especially the big boats that were on the road during that time period, the most spacious, comfortable cars ever built, with more than enough displacement too get them moving and with gas as low as it was back than, it didn't matter, ironically at the time those were the most expensive cars on the road in comparison to my Cadillac quality built Honda lawn tractor. However I've been the passenger in other people's imports goin down that highway and the comfort level is still nothing near what the big Domestic vehicle's offer, but back than, forget it, American cars were the king of the road and were luxury. We were at our strongest point after ww2. We built and used everything we owned, this crazy virus is a result of letting go of those times. We were far better off, much stronger and unified as a nation, than ever before. Were hopefully learning a big lesson from this mess, that we need to become self reliant again. We don't have any business relying on an a foreign country like China, who really doesn't care what happens to us. We need to wake up and start caring for ourselves again.
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 9 лет назад
For John -- There is a new Pennsylvania Turnpike book that you can buy direct from the Pennsylvania Turnpike's website, and thank you for you kind comments about the book Neal and I did. Stay tuned for more...
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 8 лет назад
+Mitch Dakelman Our new Pennsylvania Turnpike, "THE GLORY YEARS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE" should be out before Xmas 2016. Neal submitted the manuscript and the photos to Arcadia on March 23, 2016.
@tomlangley8852
@tomlangley8852 6 лет назад
@17:04----Has his head over radiator cap as he removes it....Then sticks his finger in to test....LMFAO!
@pqrstzxerty1296
@pqrstzxerty1296 4 года назад
It could of been worse, he could of put his dipstick in 🤪🤪🤪
@atticussawatzki
@atticussawatzki 4 года назад
@@pqrstzxerty1296 When men were men
@fairfaxcat1312
@fairfaxcat1312 3 года назад
Lamentably, one of our RU-vid commentators, indeed one “Pqrst Zxerty,” let loose with an unfortunate scatological reference.
@Bbgunn325
@Bbgunn325 4 года назад
Jesus, I forgot the GW used to be single deck
@SuperWatson63
@SuperWatson63 7 лет назад
reminds me of when Linda Ronstadt called and they changed her Tire while her son played Spanish guitar in the backseat
@DCFunBud
@DCFunBud 7 лет назад
I remember being on the N.J. Turnpike as a kid though the refinery areas outside N.Y.C. in the 1960s. The air quality was so acrid that we had to hold our noses for as long as we could. It was truly intolerable.
@Mr_Tecumseh
@Mr_Tecumseh 6 лет назад
DCFunBud Still like that over their near exit 13, elizabeth. We say damn Elizabeth close your legs.
@DTD110865
@DTD110865 5 лет назад
I couldn't smell it, but for years I was actually able to FEEL New Jersey because of those refineries.
@jang190
@jang190 4 года назад
I always say that’s the smell of money
@jpsned
@jpsned 2 года назад
I remember that, too.
@Thecorgially
@Thecorgially Год назад
That was really interesting.
@MYVP.
@MYVP. 9 лет назад
Do you know if a similar video was made for the Garden State Parkway?
@railroadskater2896
@railroadskater2896 5 лет назад
yes, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JosR-zLLXmE.html
@cjpatz
@cjpatz 4 года назад
Great video man. Do you have anything on the Lincoln Highway or Route 66?
@peep39
@peep39 5 дней назад
"Be there in a few minutes" boy we sure have fallen a long way
@edwardvangunst388
@edwardvangunst388 2 года назад
He and his car are safe from the wear and tear of fighting traffic. Lol.
@close7304
@close7304 3 года назад
Miss your exit on the Jersey Turnpike, it can easily set you back an hour or more.
@faschwank
@faschwank 4 года назад
I wish Wisconsin had a New Jersey Turnpike !
@fairfaxcat1312
@fairfaxcat1312 5 лет назад
New Jersey is the safest state and NJT is one of America’s safest roads.
@Hilder78
@Hilder78 2 года назад
Are you out of your mind 1950s narrator? 95, the turnpike, 78, and 1-9, culminate in the 2 lane Newark Bay bridge. Yesterday someone crashed. I can’t describe to you how long it took me to get to Jersey city
@charlieirvin5423
@charlieirvin5423 8 лет назад
I remember when the traffic cones were Yellow at the toll
@filanfyretracker
@filanfyretracker Год назад
that was wild to see the Delaware Memorial with only one span.
@darrylsmith1471
@darrylsmith1471 2 года назад
Howard Johnson's and Sunoco gas were major vendors on the NJ Turnpike.
@barneybeardog4338
@barneybeardog4338 7 лет назад
it was always the fan belt.....lol
@finscreenname
@finscreenname 7 лет назад
Did he say that someone had a broke fan belt to the repair truck and they replied "flat tire ... OK". Man they have been messed up for a long time.
@MrHmg55
@MrHmg55 5 лет назад
No, the part about the flat tires was the dispatcher giving him another assignment after he got through with the fan belt. Meanwhile, notice that the car with the broken fan belt was a '53 Plymouth -- only a year old when this was filmed> Did fan belts really wear out that often back then?
@cadman10000
@cadman10000 4 года назад
@@MrHmg55 Yep. Even though people like to think that cars were "built to last" back then, there was a reason that they only had 5 digit odometers on them.
@kiowastew
@kiowastew 4 года назад
2:45 Prime location for a mafia body dumping. Don't forget the cannoli
@willcook1612
@willcook1612 4 года назад
that was great
@videom
@videom 4 года назад
Love paying for roads with tolls while paying taxes on every gallon of gas. It's a beautiful thing but not for the motorists.
@georgeharleydavidsonrider156
@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 4 года назад
videom I wonder what’s going to happen when all electric vehicles are driving down our roads in America. I guess they’re going to add on to our income taxes to pay for roads.
@videom
@videom 4 года назад
@@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 Actually what I think will happen is electric plus automation. The consumer will buy a "plan" from the retailer and you will pay a month for how many miles you drive (similar to the cellular plans now) and these will be taxed to pay for the few local roads that won't be tolls in the future. I can envision roll-over-miles advertised in the future already.
@johnathin0061892
@johnathin0061892 4 года назад
@@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 If it happens (will be a long time if ever) they will slap a "gas tax" to the cost of electricity. And all highways will eventually have tolls thanks to "easy" electronic toll collection/toll by plate, they changed the law to allow new tolls to be put on existing Interstates, what a racket that will become...
@maxi-me
@maxi-me 4 года назад
What gets me is in the rural areas, where a county road that parallels the toll road happens to cross at some point, they simply dead end the road rather than bridge over it. It forces you to pay a toll for access to a local destination you previously didn't need a freeway for. And cuts you off from a road you pay taxes to maintain.
@gregorypeterman6216
@gregorypeterman6216 4 года назад
@@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 that isn't going to happen because electric vehicles will never have the range required. Maybe short range by air, future of highways is less, more air traffic, new drone transport technology will make cars obsolete. Already happening in Asia.
@stevebier710
@stevebier710 4 года назад
Roadside repair? You’ll never see that in NJ anymore!
@77Keith
@77Keith 4 года назад
Yup!
@gregorypeterman6216
@gregorypeterman6216 4 года назад
They have started it in Florida now. Called Road Rangers
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 4 года назад
They still do it in a limited way. I have AAA and they gave me fast service when my auto battery died,
@blackcruze1379
@blackcruze1379 Год назад
and gas station attendants are mainly foreigners who barely speak english
@ArtiePenguin1
@ArtiePenguin1 2 года назад
Pretty cool historical newsreel footage; however, what is up with the 2 seemingly random audio cut outs? The first one is at 1:50 and lasts for about 30 seconds during the helicopter aerial footage. The second is at 4:51 and lasts 40 seconds. Anyways, it's cool to see that they were using data analysis in the 1950s based on the ticket tolling system. Such data from using the tickets as punch cards would have been harder to tabulate had the Turnpike used the traditional cash-only toll booths. I also liked that they were using fixed message variable message (neon) signs to warn drivers of weather conditions or traffic. It really was a road that was ahead of its time and something you can't really find in the US anymore.
@HyperSarcasticAvocado
@HyperSarcasticAvocado 4 года назад
New Jersey: The road sign and ominous train car state.
@georgestreicher252
@georgestreicher252 4 года назад
Lived in NJ the 70'S. Always avoided toll roads. What a hassle toll roads are. What the heck do we pay a gas tax for? Love the old cars. Wish I had one of those now. Are there any Howard Johnsons left?
@railroadskater2896
@railroadskater2896 4 года назад
Well Ground Round restaurants, a product of Howard Johnson, went all but extinct until they started slowly resurfacing in the last decade under franchisees.
@thomasprendergast6315
@thomasprendergast6315 2 года назад
Skater, I ate at a ground round last year. Just outside Toledo, OH. Not anything like a Ground Round of yesteryear. Antiseptic clean modern, no charm. No peanuts.
@franciskhoury4288
@franciskhoury4288 7 лет назад
The view along much of the turnpike is pretty much all warehouses now.
@pcz5233
@pcz5233 5 лет назад
.Exit. 14A.. Bayonne!
@WApnj
@WApnj 4 года назад
Any chance the missing audio segments could be found and restored.....?
@totalsports3570
@totalsports3570 4 года назад
Great Video! There was another New Jersey video from 1956 From Bell telephone that I was watching but it has now disappeared...Periscope is the video still available to watch?
@eisenjeisen6262
@eisenjeisen6262 4 года назад
pretty good timing
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