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NJ Hall of Fame: Your Picks
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
This week saw the first inductees into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. We are joined by Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran of Weird New Jersey. We also want to hear from you about your picks for New Jersey's favorite sons and daughters.
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YOGI BERRA -- # 8 --- Yoo-Hoo
No Frankie Valli?
whitney houston - Newark, if I'm not mistaken....
Count Basie, from Red Bank!
General Kazimierz Pułaski of skyway fame.
Bruce Springstein makes the Hall of Fame before Count Basie? No wonder Jersey has become a punchline.
Philip Roth of Newark
MUSIC - Phoebe Snow, Wayne Shorter, Blondie, Patti Smith, Ella and Sarah !
the smell
Trenton makes - the world takes!!
Jon Stewart!
Jon Stewart!!!!!! He is a proud New Jersian. He never forgets to give props to Jersey on his show.
Lou Costello ( Abbott & Costello). Born in my home town, Paterson, NJ.
Ozzie Nelson was also from my hometown of Ridgefield Park, NJ.
Is Bon Jovi Included??
William Carlos Williams
joe piscipo!
Longy Zwillman
george clinton and the misfits
Allen Ginsberg
William Carlos Williams
Edmund Wilson - literary critc
althea gibson
Tubman was in Cape May for all of 5 months and she's in a new jesery hall of fame...was she inducted just to have a black person in it....by the way i'm black
Jersey Joe Walcott Heavyweight Champ
The Matawan Man-Eater, aka Jaws. (Okay, not a person, but definitely famous.)
whilliam carlos whilliams, jimmy hoffa
russel simmons
Jim Cramer!
(And I like to second Philip Roth)
Woodrow Wilson
What about Phil Rizzuto ??
William Carlos Williams!
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
jersey joe walcott
Stephen Colbert!
Woodrow Wilson was a bigot!
walt whitman spent the last... more than five! years of his life in south jersey. =) he was pretty great.
PAUL ROBESON--a key figure in the history of the American Left, music, film and race relations. A powerful voice for liberty in every sense! And he grew up in NJ and attended Rutgers where he was a big football star too.
John Augustus Roebling -- designer of the Brooklyn Bridge -- from Trenton
Stephen Colbert has lived in NJ, but he's not from NJ originally. (My friend actually worked at the video store he used to go to).
Kazimierz Pułaski was from poland, not new jersey. I can't find any evidence he ever stepped foot in NJ
I was at the induction ceremony which was absolutely wonderful! All those luminaries who received the award (except for Bill Bradley and Meryl Streep) actually showed up to receive it personally-that says a lot. Best part of the evening--Bruce Springsteen's speech about growing up in NJ and his "Benediction." Does anyone knonw where I could get a copy of these???
Thanks,
Michele from NJ
Senator Frank Lautenburg, Born in Paterson started ADP.
Actress Elizabeth Shue. Born in SOuth Orange
Actress Valerie Harper AKA Rhoda Lived in Glen Rock.
Paul Robeson, Born in Princeton.
Phil 'The Scooter' Rizzuto from Hillside, NJ
Bucky Dent, lived in Wyckoff.
Willie Randolph Lives in Franklin Lakes
John Matthew Shippen, Jr. an African American competed in the 1896 U.S. Open, and was tied for the lead after 18 holes. He competed in four more U.S. Open Championships. He was the golf pro at the Shady Rest Golf Course in Scotch Plains from 1924 until his retirement in 1960. Shady Rest is now the Scotch Hills Country Club.
25, Mr. Simmons grew up in Hollis, Queens, NEW YORK.
Filmmaker Kevin Smith (Red Bank, NJ)
Tom Scharpling - The Best Show on WFMU
Celia Cruz lived in Fort Lee during her last years.
Reverend Run (of Run DMC) lives in Saddle River, NJ with his family.
The writers actually born in Jersey:
Robert Pinsky, Stephen Crane, William Carlos Williams, Amiri Baraka, Dorothy Parker, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg and, of course, John McPhee.
Joe Jeanette boxer
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