Submitted by lilacmacchiato t3_1211bkg in newjersey
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lilacmacchiato OP t1_jdk9tnx wrote
rml24601 t1_jdko0fl wrote
This is so funny - I went here years ago & took photos (testing out my then-new D-SLR). I had no idea what I was photographing - I was just out for a drive & pulled over bc it looked like a neat spot. Now I know! 😝
WhatIsTickyTacky t1_jdkyhjs wrote
Isn’t there another in Mercer County?
lajih t1_jdkz2ly wrote
That's where they grow them! It takes awhile before they're big enough to harvest, though
lilacmacchiato OP t1_jdl10la wrote
Idk. Never been to Mercer
sutisuc t1_jdldis3 wrote
dinosore t1_jdlu5uw wrote
My dad told me that it was a telephone farm where they grow all the telephone poles for NJ when I was a kid and I believed him for way too long afterwards.
TenCentCherryCoke t1_jdlw9bc wrote
I remember driving on Washington Ave in Newark in the ‘70s where there was a Bell Telephone lot filled with telephone poles for training purposes, and seeing the new workers on top tossing basketballs back and forth.
SadMasterpiece7019 t1_jdlxai7 wrote
Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. I'm not sure there are any poles left though.
LittleD75 t1_jdm1doo wrote
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lilacmacchiato OP t1_jdm4azz wrote
Actually just kidding. I guess I have but not since like 02 or so
lilacmacchiato OP t1_jdm4fwo wrote
Lol i think all corny dads said that
Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmd658 wrote
They grow pretty slow. Same height since I first saw them in 1974. Not enough fertilizer.
meanderingdecline t1_jdmhrvh wrote
There’s 1 still standing at the Reed/Bryan Farm entrance to the park. I do recommend the Pole Farm area with its signage because it is an interesting piece of recent but forgotten history.
oxysept11 t1_jdmjevn wrote
There farmed with organic methods
Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmkd85 wrote
and slathered in rot-preventing chemicals, like Creosote
oxysept11 t1_jdn0j9g wrote
I love the smell of Creosote - but hated painting fences with it as a kid.
Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdndwwv wrote
Same. My dad had my brother and I seal the stockade fence ever few years. That was way before they found out it's linked to cancer (just like everything else!).
Oxysept1 t1_jdnhb8f wrote
Did you know studies have found that living will actually kill you !!!
Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdns6r4 wrote
Like George Carlin said "The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time."
I_Am_Skipples t1_jdk7wyr wrote
Fuck Chester.