> Better barbeque is at Palisades Park, NJ. One would have to move to Korea > for one better. > RT
Not sure what you define as Palisades Park, It is both a place and an area. Just north of the GW Bridge, under the Palisades, you'll see a bit of land that sets level with the river. In the late thirties that was where we went, by ferry, from Manhattan, for picnics. But at the same time there was an amusement park called Palisades Park that had a roller coaster and Ferris wheel that could be seen from the NY side (a bit south of the bridge). Those were torn down long ago, and I think before the rides at Olympia Park in Irvington - those two being the only amusement parks in NJ north of Asbury Park, which died not long after. Any barbecue in the ghostly shadow of the rides of Palisades Park would have to be imitative of the South West, no matter the quality. We have "cook outs" here in the east, we don't roast pigs on a spit. But then the language and vocabulary have been corrupted and any grilling with sauce becomes a barbecue. We have discussed NY before, and I did ride the 3rd Ave. El. Visit the Transit Museum (in Brooklyn?). You'll see the old cars with vestibules at each end. I used to ride them, and like most I rode in the end vestibule in summer to get the air. But I didn't know that they were engineered to collapse (and the museum won't tell you that). The idea was the same as the "collapsible" front end of an automobile, to cushion the shock to the rest of the car and save lives. The engineers just forgot to think that a lot of people would congregate there. And the carousel is still in Central Park, but is hard to find. I rode it first in about 1937. Then walked miles with my daughter a few years back to find it (she had ridden it in about 1972). Best, Jon To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
