The World in 1974

• The best class ever to attend Wayne Hills graduates
  
• Richard Nixon resigns Presidency
  
• "The Sting" wins Oscar for Best Picture
  
• "Time in A Bottle" by Jim Croce was top hit of the year
  
• Oakland Athletics Win World Series over Los Angeles Dodgers
  
• The Miami Dolphins win Super Bowl VIII against Minnesota Vikings, 24-7
  

You Know You're From New Jersey When ...

• You've known the way to Seaside Heights since you were seven
  
• You know we're the only "New..." state that doesn't require "New" to identify it (like try ...Mexico, ...York, ...Hampshire (doesn't work, does it?)
  
• You know how to translate this conversation: "Jeet yet?" "No, Jew?"
  
• You know there are no "beaches" in New Jersey - there's "the Shore," and you know that the road to the shore is "The Parkway" not "The Garden State Highway"
  
• You know what a jug handle is and you can negotiate a circle
  
• And you knew that the last item had to do with driving
• Even your school cafeteria made good Italian subs, and, you call it a "sub" not a "submarine sandwich or worse yet, a "hoagy" or a "hero"
  
• You've eaten at a diner, when you were stoned or drunk, at 3am
  
• You've ordered a hard roll with butter for breakfast
  
• The Jets-Giants game has started fights at your school or local bar
  
• You live within 20 minutes of at least three malls
  
• You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of Willowbrook Mall
  
• Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony
  
• You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights, and people from Central Jersey go to Belmar and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood
  
• You weren't raised in New Jersey - you were raised in either North Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey
  
• You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, Bamberger's, Orbach's and Kresge's
  
• You know the location of every clip shown in the Sopranos opening credits
• And best of all, you never had to pump your own gas!