Index of Personalized Properties in Weird NJ

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Subject/Topic/Personal or Place Name (Geographic Location) Issue# : Pages

Special issues are designated by the following acronyms:  LE = Last Exit; LH =Local Heroes, Villains and Artists of Weird N.J.; NP = Nightshade on the Passaic; RG = Weird N.J. 2003 Roadside Guide; TCR = Tales From Clinton Road.

Multiple index entries are separated by a semi-colon (;). Page numbering in Weird N.J. magazine did not begin until Issue #6. The page numbering given for Issues #1 through #5 is modeled after the format of later issues (i.e., the cover is counted as page 1).

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1960’s mannequin display in house (Rio Grande)  21: 65p

Abandoned farmhouse ruin with Christmas decorations (Long Valley)  28: 49p

Aircraft sculptures on lawn (Burlington)  21: 47p; 28: 30

Albert P. Greim’s Birdsville Church (Tom’s River)  14: 36p

Alien House with cryptic symbols (Pompton Lakes)  26: 90p

Angelo Nardone’s Statue House (Nutley)  1-3: 8; 8: 41p; 11: 2; 19: 91; 22: 10; 31: 11

Apple House (West Milford)  24: 52p

Arbuckel Estate and its concrete artwork (Vineland)  20: 1p, 70p-71p

Arthur Schroeder’s Castle House (Jefferson)  25: 41p; 29: 22d; 31: 9

Art lawn (East Brunswick)  26: 10

Astoria Doll Death House (Queens County, NY)  24: 90p

Aviso Grille (Bordentown) – Nazi yacht scrapped, but part possibly preserved  27: 45p-46p; 28: 17; 29: 20; 30: 14

Backyard locomotive and caboose (Kinnelon)  24: 85p

Backyard pebble sculptures (Matawan)  20: 67p

Batman climbing into home (Harding)  28: 51p

Best Buy plastic boulder (Union)  25: 50p

Bird Feeder House (Milmay)  RG: 42p

Boat in a tree, bowling ball pyramid and futuristic car from “Sleeper” (Mountain Lakes) 20: 16; 26: 76p-78p

Bob Rowe’s outdoor train display (Warren County)  28: 66p

Bowling Ball House/Rocking Horse House of Kendall Park  7: 27p; 10: 43p; 20: 16

Bowling Ball Pyramid (Mendham)  19: 45; 21: 12; 26: 76p-78p

Brick Midget House (Brick)  16: 45p; 18: 14; 20: 12; 27: 14-15

Cadillac gas station/garage (Morris County)  29: 64p

Camouflaged Peace Sign mailbox (Florance)  22: 73p

Candy-striped house (West Orange)  7: 19p-20

Cart Wheel Girl lawn ornaments (Haddonfield)  23: 66p

Case Family house with skeleton in attic (Ringoes)  19: 23d

Castle Delawana (Clifton)  13: 67p

Castle of King George Road (Warren)  13: 65p; 20: 73p; 29: 50p

Chain Link Tree (Howell)  24: 64p

Chipmunk Run – home of Sutter family (Upper Saddle River)  17: 33p; RG: 84p; 21: 6

Church-shaped birdhouse (Deptford)  25: 91p

Clean up Elmwood Road signs (Mount Laurel)  25: 45p

Coffin Bench (Malaga)  28: 64p; LE: 84p

Cold War backyard bomb shelter (Clifton)  19: 70p-72d

The Collage House (Sussex)  19: 18p-22; 20: 4; 28: 10p; 33: 15

Conflicting weight limit signs (Three Bridges)  26: 80p

Cookie Jar house (Glendora)  8: 20-21p

Crazy wooden lawn sculptures (Newton)  21: 62p

Cumberland County Route 54 sculptures  5: 4p, 30p

Dog tree (Highland Park)  24: 64p

Doctor’s office with gravestone walkway (Pompton Plains)  15: 74p

Doll House of Salem Street (Dover)  10: 40; 12: 4; 23: 64p

“Doubletake Duplex” on Hamilton Street (Trenton)  29: 64p

Easter Island driveway sculptures  RG: 23p

Easter Island/Tiki head on Grant Avenue lawn (Highland Park)  16: 43p; 29: 65p; 33: 7p

Elephant Tree (Wayne)  22: 70p

Expressive lawn ornament (Montclair)  4: bcp

Farr family backyard chapel (Florham Park)  13: 65p

Fence made of crutches (Bay Haven)  24: 53

Fiberglass cow on front lawn (Mystic Island)  22: 77p

Fiberglass cows grazing (Green Village)  22: 77p

Folk art house of Pink Austin Bellamy (Woodbridge)  11: 51p; 24: 78p; 25: 10p

Freaky Tiki (Rutherford)  21: 63p

Gargoyles (Somerset County)  13: cp, 52p

Giant cow head in yard (Harrison)  23: 87p

Giant head sculpture (Bergen County)  12: 42p; RG: 68p

Giant skull (South Orange)  25: 54p

Gracie Knox’s “Pink Lady” house (Metuchen)  23: 63p

Grim Reaper guarding house (Morris Plains)  RG: 43p

Half-houses (Trenton)  24: 53p; 25: 76p

“Heartland House” – giant mailbox and theme-park property (Lincoln Park)

16: 4p, 6; RG: 68p

House of Names (Flanders)  25: 42-43

House with Chair on top (West Creek/Eagleswood)

7: 21; RG: 20p-21; 24: 11; 26: 4p; 30: 10p

House with replica Jungle Habitat sign (Ringwood Lake)  26: 12p

House with stacked front doors (Deal)  25: 49p

Hubcap tree (Hammonton)  4: 3

Igloo House at Shady Lake Community (West Milford)  20: 72p

Jamil the Gypsy’s Mosque (Meadowlands)  11: 51p

Josephine Stapleton’s Art Lawn (Buena Vista)  aka Lawn of a Thousand Milk Bottles

4: 6; 7: 5; 10: 41p; 30: 3p; 32: 16p

Lawn of a Thousand Ornaments (Hackensack)  1-3: 7; 6: 17p

Lawn ornament display (Freehold)  12: 16p

Life-size bronze statue of girl on horseback (Wallington)  33: 85

Martian sculpture (Lake Hopatcong)  22: 78p

Meixells Rocks (Pequest)  25: 40p

Messy yard and unique owner (Whippany)  25: 6

Metal Palm Tree (Wantage)  10: 42p; 20: 10p; RG: 76p

Mildred Johnson’s “Pink Lady” house (West Orange)  22: 64p

Mini-Midget Castle (Alpine)  13: 66p

Model House (Fredon)  14: 18p; 16: 65

Mother Teresa brick (Union)  25: 91p

Mr. Ed, penguins and other lawn displays (Freehold)  24: 53

Mr. Peanut statue — “Save my Home” (Stanhope)  27: 55p

Multiplism Moses sculpture (Rutherford)  31: 72p

“My Buddy” dolls lawn display (Hammonton)  21: 64p

Mysterious woman statue (Metuchen)  28: 65p

Naked legs mailbox (???)  26: 14p

Nautical menagerie of the Hubb brothers (Paulsboro)  31: 73p; 32: 25

Northlandz — one guy’s creepy dream (Flemington)  28: 41

Obsuth Oasis backyard tiki bar (Fair Lawn)  32: 61p

Paint Bucket House (Salem)  23: 64p

“Palace Depression” (Vineland)

4: 18; 7: 12p-13p; 14: 16p-18p; 15: 5; 17: 9, 14; 18: 13; 19: 12, 14p; 20: 12;

23: 19; 25: 40p; 28: 31; 30: 21; 31: 12p; 32: 12p, 25p

Patriotic tree (Fair Lawn)  24: 64p

Patti Mayo’s pimped trailer – graffiti courtesy of Rime, aka Jersey Joe (Edison)  32: 71p

Pebble Palace (Deptford)  19: 44p; 26: 89

Pebble Palace (Williamstown)  26: 89p

“PeeWee Herman House” (Hackensack)  4: 22

Piney home with menacing statuary on Indian Cabin Road (Egg Harbor City)

18: 42p-43p; 19: 92; 33: 21

Pink house and yard (Metuchen)  22: 64p

Plaster Man guards home (Barry Lakes)  29: 65p

Police mannequin guarding mailbox (Parsippany)  33: 83p

Polka Dot/Frog Rock (Mountain Lakes)  25: 49p

Porch Jesus (Passaic)  RG: 43p

Property with disturbing “child-like” displays (Monroe)  26: 93

Pullman railroad car (Edison)  6: 4

Pumpkin House (Sussex County)  13: 52p

Purple House (Alloway)  28: 65p

Real-life gingerbread house (Vincentown)  29: 64p

Restored railroad caboose (Plainfield)  5: 21

Ricky Boscarino’s Luna Parc psychedelic art house (Sussex County)  21: 44p-45p

“Ripped-Off House” power bill protest (Orange)  8: 23p

Road Warrior of Greenwood Lake – John Hearle (Passaic County)  26: 88p

Rooftop upholstered chair (Roselle Park)  24: 71p

Route 536 stair tree  24: 64p

Rudy Bram’s Art House (Weehawken)  12: 16p

Rusted knight in yard (Pequannock)  29: 65p

The Sand Castle  aka Bahia Vista (Egg Harbor)  19: 28p

Skewered head Halloween decoration (Lyndhurst)  25: 49p

Smokey the Bear likeness recovered (Ridgewood)  24: 18

Snowplow blade as Christmas decoration (Fairfield)  27: 8

“Spaceship” house (Denville)  24: 4

Stanley Hammell’s Insulator House (Galloway Township)  17: 34p; 18: 9

Statue of Liberty driveway ornaments (Hackettstown)  23: 66p

Stone Face of Cedar Lane (River Vale)  24: 66p

Susan Hunter’s caged Three Stooges lawn display (Colonia)  23: 64p-65p; 26: 12p

Toilet paper curtains (Route 1)  25: 50p

Tom Fuscaldo’s “Bumblebee House” (Paterson)  18: 35p; 19: 6-7p

Tooth tree (Woodbury)  24: 64p

Totem Pole (North Plainfield)  22: 63p

Toy Tower and its creator Eddie Boros (New York City)  31 : 22

Tree carved into Statue of Liberty (Montville)  21: 15p

Twin Towers shrine on front lawn (Monroe)  23: 68p; 24: 19

“Uncle Sam’s House” – Marxist commune (Piscataway)  11: 50p; 15: 46

Underground house (Cherry Hill)  21: 46p

Vacuum mailbox (Mountainside)  33: 84p

VHS tape walkways and patios (Fort Lee)  25: 43p

Vicki Diamond’s rock artistry on Split Rock Road (Rockaway)  18: 34p

Viking of Route 77 (Upper Deerfield)  28: 65p

“W” house (Pitman)  26: 90p

Watchung Castle (Watchung)  13: 66p

Weird modern house (West Creek)  24: 53p

Wilberforce Sylvester’s Mural House (Pleasantville)  29: 60p-63p

Wooden lean-to “home” (Cinnaminson)  12: 16p

Wooden roadside Statue of Liberty (Sussex)  12: 16p

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