We waded under a bridge that ran beneath the parkway, crouching down at low spots, and of course watching out for trolls.
The parkway was shut down for several hours.
In the summer of 1990, another school in the district burned down and Parkway was brought up to code and recommissioned by fall.
Justin was at college up in Hammond, and he called and said, 'All I'm doing is thinking about the Parkway.' He came down and started shovelling out the muck.
Over the years, I have had a few paranoid thoughts and words and gestures toward assorted Bushes and Clintons, Gores and Kerrys, when some bridge or parkway was inexplicably shut down.
But driving down the Parkway in a ZipCar seems to cue Deliverance banjos in the minds of some writers, which I think says more about their frames of reference than it does about South Jersey".
Sure enough, Phillips saw someone on his way down the parkway that night.
Farther down the parkway, across the Passaic River, is Exit 145, which is like a passage to an alternative universe.
"Anybody that would ride down the parkway at 90 miles an hour without a seat belt doesn't have much judgment," she said.
"You don't wake up in the morning and say maybe what will happen today is we'll have state troopers leading Lamborghinis and Porsches down the Parkway at 110 miles per hour and then block intersections for them so they won't have to wait for lights".
I treasured my Chevy, too, though it plodded compared witha friend's Olds that sped us one New Year's Eveafter the parties down the Parkway at a hundred and ten.My grandfather I gather was vain of his truck, and his driving,but my grandmother would grumble, "He was a terrible driver".
