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[riley1]

@LIndaMJ - I worked at Lipton

[riley1]

@Laura14 - I know, me either! I had to go back and look it up again to make sure - lol

[Laura14]

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@riley1 wrote:

@Laura14 - I know, me either! I had to go back and look it up again to make sure - lol

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@riley1  Okay, good,  We're not a big state so how I missed all the square dancing fools, I didn't know.  Maybe it's big in Trenton.  

[jubilant]

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@Laura14 wrote:

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@riley1 wrote:

@Laura14 - I know, me either! I had to go back and look it up again to make sure - lol

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@riley1  Okay, good,  We're not a big state so how I missed all the square dancing fools, I didn't know.  Maybe it's big in Trenton.  

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********  In Indiana grade school we were taught to square dance in gym class.

[RainCityWoman]

State bird:  Willow Goldfinch

State tree: Western Hemlock, but the whole state is called the evergreen state, and Seattle, my home, is called the Emerald City.

State flower: rhodadendron

State song: Washington, My Home, though there was a petition and a vote a few years back to change it to Louie Louie in deference to Seattle's own Kingsmen who wrote the song. It failed, but the song is considered the official rock song of Washington. I don't think there is a person in this state who could sing any part of Washington, My Home, but everyone knows Louie Louie. The lyrics aren't that hard.

[itiswhatitis]

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@Stray wrote:

More from NJ...the thread prompted me to read more:

we we are the car theft capital of the world - Newark, more than LA and NYC

we have 108 toxic waste dumps, most in US

first Indian tribe settled in NJ

First baseball game in Hoboken

First intercollegiate football game - RU Vs Princeton

Tourism our second largest industry

we have the largest number of resort towns....you can't beat our NJ Shore....Cape May being the oldest 

First to legalize gambling in AC

lets not forget Edison and Menlo Park

we are the largest petroleum containment location outside of the Middle East 

we have the largest seaport in the US, Elizabeth 

our motto....liberty and prosperity....

not a fact but opinion only- we have good hearted, hard working people and I love my State, the good, the bad and the ugly!   We are close to NYC, NY being my second favorite state and good neighbor....

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Nevada Legalized Most Forms of Gambling in the State in 1931. The Nevada Legislature was motivated to build on the tourism boom that was expected in the wake of the completion of Boulder, now Hoover, Dam. Nevada had a flourishing, albeit illegal, gambling industry prior to the legalization. The move for making gambling legal also grew out of concerns that the flourishing illegal gambling was corrupting law enforcement and prohibition was unenforceable.23 Gaming in Nevada struggled from its inception until after World War II, when the prosperity of post-war America started a boom in the fledgling industry.

In 1978, New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling in an attempt to revitalize the rundown resort area of Atlantic City. The legalization was restricted only to Atlantic City. In the late 1800's to the early 1900's, Atlantic City was a popular resort town, boosted by the new rail service which linked the Northeast. Day trips to the Jersey shore were now possible and affordable. But its popularity dwindled when air travel became easily accessible. Upscale tourists chose beach resorts in Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean over Atlantic City. Visitors to Atlantic City in the 1960's and 1970's were generally elderly and/or poor. Casino gaming was expected to be a way for Atlantic City to become a popular tourist destination once again.

https://www.library.ca.gov/crb/97/03/chapt2.html

Your information was a little inaccurate, so I took the liberty to provide a factual accounting.

Thanks for sharing.

[Stray]

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@itiswhatitis wrote:

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@Stray wrote:

More from NJ...the thread prompted me to read more:

we we are the car theft capital of the world - Newark, more than LA and NYC

we have 108 toxic waste dumps, most in US

first Indian tribe settled in NJ

First baseball game in Hoboken

First intercollegiate football game - RU Vs Princeton

Tourism our second largest industry

we have the largest number of resort towns....you can't beat our NJ Shore....Cape May being the oldest 

First to legalize gambling in AC

lets not forget Edison and Menlo Park

we are the largest petroleum containment location outside of the Middle East 

we have the largest seaport in the US, Elizabeth 

our motto....liberty and prosperity....

not a fact but opinion only- we have good hearted, hard working people and I love my State, the good, the bad and the ugly!   We are close to NYC, NY being my second favorite state and good neighbor....

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Nevada Legalized Most Forms of Gambling in the State in 1931. The Nevada Legislature was motivated to build on the tourism boom that was expected in the wake of the completion of Boulder, now Hoover, Dam. Nevada had a flourishing, albeit illegal, gambling industry prior to the legalization. The move for making gambling legal also grew out of concerns that the flourishing illegal gambling was corrupting law enforcement and prohibition was unenforceable.23 Gaming in Nevada struggled from its inception until after World War II, when the prosperity of post-war America started a boom in the fledgling industry.

In 1978, New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling in an attempt to revitalize the rundown resort area of Atlantic City. The legalization was restricted only to Atlantic City. In the late 1800's to the early 1900's, Atlantic City was a popular resort town, boosted by the new rail service which linked the Northeast. Day trips to the Jersey shore were now possible and affordable. But its popularity dwindled when air travel became easily accessible. Upscale tourists chose beach resorts in Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean over Atlantic City. Visitors to Atlantic City in the 1960's and 1970's were generally elderly and/or poor. Casino gaming was expected to be a way for Atlantic City to become a popular tourist destination once again.

https://www.library.ca.gov/crb/97/03/chapt2.html

Your information was a little inaccurate, so I took the liberty to provide a factual accounting.

Thanks for sharing.

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@itiswhatitis- thank you for the correction....I was reading it from a site and I don't know the integrity of it...but, of course, Nevada was first ....I went there long before we legalized in NJ....I wasn't thinking....I am not a gambler and I think I've gone to AC to gamble once and in LV it's about entertainment, for me ....sorry for the inaccurate info! 

[cactusgal]

State Bird- Vulture, State Tree Deadwood, State Flower Tumbleweed and State Song The Theme From The Twilight Zone.

[viva923]

I don't know anything about the state i live in. been here for 30 yrs.

What I do know there is a stop light on every street corner. So you get nowhere fast here.

This is Delaware

[RedTop]

West Virginia, the Mountain State:  Cardinal, sugar maple, rhododendron, and West Virginia Hills is the original state song, altho John Denver's hit Take me Home Country Roads, has been accepted as a state song as well.