Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown S05E06 2015 1080p WEB DL H264 AAC DDHDTV

[Music] [Music] and vacation over as we headed home to our regular beds our daily lives of school and homework and ordinary things maybe my little brother maybe I would wake up and look out the window at the night sky and suddenly it would fill with stars and golden mist and we'd pretend for a second we were somehow deep inside the Milky Way a million winking lights but we knew where we really were we were almost home I took a walk beautiful world felt the on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world I felt the rain getting [Applause] [Music] colder la la [Music] [Music] oh Enchanted land of my childhood a cultural petri dish from which regularly issues forth greatness New Jersey in case you didn't know it has got beaches beautiful beaches and they're not all crawling with roid raging trolls with reality shows I grew up summering on those beaches and they are awesome jerseys got Farmland beautiful bedroom communities where that woman from Real Housewives who looks like Dr Zas does not live nor anyone like her even the refineries the endless Clover leaves of turnpikes and expressways twisting in unknowable patterns over the wetlands are to me somehow beautiful to know Jersey is to love her [Music] Fort Lee you may have heard of it some of Governor Christy's minions allegedly conspired to jam up traffic for a few days it's a town with a jokey history of corruption it's also where my beloved hyams is open since 1932 and pretty much unchanged ever since my dad started bringing me and my younger brother Chris here in the ' 50s and they still honor tradition my happy Place sometimes I just need that old time flavor you know it seems like a chw Fu basically my dad would take me here it is a great point of Pride and personal satisfaction I've convinced my daughter that these are the finest hot dogs in the land gets very excited to come out here which makes me very happy thank you thank you now this is cheap these toothpicks are just like 1958 some things just shouldn't change my dad used to love picky red relish I love this stuff look at that [Music] beauty oh yeah I come here to feed my soul at the cultural Well Spring that is New Jersey it's the antidot to every other [Music] place this place is perfect the dogs are amazing [Music] there not a lot of people in this world like courageous enough to not [Applause] change down the shore Yeah we actually talked like that it was what we did go down the shore not just Star Family from Bergen County near the bridge but middle class and workingclass families from Philly and all over who' pack up the kids in the station wagon for the seemingly interminable trip to Long Beach Island just getting out of the driveway was a big deal it always took three extra hours at to load the damn cars there was always drama strapping crap to the roof of the car where once we were over the Manahawken Bridge the excitement would ratchet up Ship Bottom then Surf City Harvey Cedars love ladies ticking off the Town names until finally finally barnegate light new these are all new I that's original yeah definitely in fact I think I know who lived there at one point and that's definitely old school but look let's face it it's been how many years I mean like 40 four I Think Jesus we're old and then the lighthouse definitely remember going to that Lighthouse a lot of fast oh the good old days I want some fried clam strips absolutely well our options are limited shall we say but uh holy crap this place is filling up I think it's cuz it's the only place yeah but still who lives out here year round we're about to see every single one of [Music] them let's be honest when we come here in the Summers I was the bad one yes that's your recollection is correct I was up to every variety of criminal antisocial Behavior down here I didn't smoke dop for the first time here I was looking for dop but as a 12-year-old it was hard to come by I think I vaguely remember you walking off with some kind of cute girl is first kiss that was an important passage good this good I realize now that I hitchhiked regularly yeah Mom Dad you know I'm want to go down to Ship Bottom tonight you know with some friends how you getting there well hitchike down okay have fun that was cool all the kids were hitching here that's how you got places [Music] summertime you know that sound just out of the water ears pressed up against the Beach Blanket the squeak of bare feet on Sand nearby Classics Illustrated Comics waiting for me back at the house I'd play with my little plastic army man in the dunes there's a smell of beach grass in the Dunes you know can you remember it I still trve it I love it and on special occasions clams and drawn butter no matter where I find them now they always bring me back here I remember this place with nothing but fondness I mean I I can't remember a single bad memory here it was great people you knew from last year were here you'd roll out onto the street your parents didn't need to be with you have a campfire on the beach at night you'd s on firecrackers all the stuff they wouldn't let you do at home the beach would look different for a couple of days the whole Beach would be like this weird foamy surf like these giant like frothy bubbles oh yeah here now we're talking thank you yeah or there would be the jellyfish delivery sometimes where there would be like millions of infestation of jellyfish right I I try to block that out that wonderful feeling of you know you were with other 10-year-olds alone at night you know on the beach it was great love clam strips these are great this is awesome so far so great I'm happy properly battered piece of fish some good Taris sauce what were your favorite activities find in the beach right overturning The Lifeguard sand yes had to go they were representatives of the man firecrackers on the beach firecrackers on the beach I have some firecrackers in your car by the way just saying set them off in the elevator at the casino perfect perfect [Applause] [Music] it was Paradise America's first dream vacation the beach as far as America was concerned meaning bathing suits and swimming in the surf was pretty much invented here Atlantic City Rich A working class it was here for you back then you dressed up to walk the boardwalk it was capitalism at its purest and most assertive it was a democratic dream designed from the beginning for everybody flashy utilitarian upright deeply unapologetically corrupt the knife and fork in was right there through it all in many ways its story a perfect reflection of Changing Times established in 1912 as a so-called gentleman's dining and drinking Club the second floor originally had curtained alcoves and a separate ladies Lounge private rooms on the third and fourth floor were set aside for games of chance and perhaps other activities Vicky gold Levy's dad was the chief photographer for Atlantic City from the 1930s through the 1960s he saw it all and by extension so did Vicki what was it like here as a kid it was fantastic walking down the boardwalk in the summertime was like walking in a carnival in a Midway the cacophony of noises there were still remnants of the 20s yeah that sensibility that look handlebar mustaches Victorian graphic design and illustration a weird stuck in time feel was still very much in evidence even in my time here in the early' 60s the boardwalk was over 6 miles of amusements entertainments parades and pageants a NeverEnding Carnival every place you went down the boardwalk was something else to see and all the stores were like Mom and Pop stores all very unique yes and I love that the world famous Steel Pier Amusement arcades barkers Novelties saltwater taffy I love the joke shops the joke shops it was a Wonderland of juvenile delinquency cuz I just buy do you know plastic dog crap and ptic vomit and smoke powder and it was just something very Sinister and forbidden and you know my parents indulged me when I was here the menu is changed somewhat since the original for me a very tasty pretzel crusted swordfish over lump crab meat for Vicky paner scallops my memories of Atlantic City are largely built around the time before gambling time were not good I mean the maror blenham I remember it well was largely empty but it was a magnificent structure I mean you and I like the Nostalgia and people who like Cony Island like it but I don't know about the young people beautiful buildings are beautiful buildings you know a beautiful view is beautiful view forever yes there's no place with this kind of history and and legitimacy this place has deep romantic Allure I agree with you I believe in in the transition that's coming I really really do with all my heart the kinds of businesses you talked about that used to be here it's not a matter of G would be really great if that kind of thing happened again it is inevitable that that will happen again and it's worth fixing Atlantic City could be Chic easily because the bones the skeleton of the city are beautiful I'm glad you feel that way there is even in very young people particularly now beautiful old things a beautiful old restaurant with really great food for right now is much more interesting than a glass box with good [Music] [Applause] [Music] food the names of Atlantic city streets were imprinted on generations of Americans who grew up playing Monopoly drive down ventor Avenue today and you see history the E and flow of America's hopes and dreams played out in the buildings and homes you see as you pass by magnificent Mansions mixed in with inexpensive two family houses cheap takeout the footprints of a lost world the Riviera of the Northeast still there if you look between with jet travel in Miami and an expanded highway system things declined as they do but a few Visionary Geniuses presented a solution a cure that would overnight make every stdy well make Atlantic City shiny and new and prosperous again men like Donald Trump I think it's going to be really very beneficial to everybody we look forward to operating the Taj Mahal successfully for many years to come vast new zadu would be constructed and would be KU like H rushed to Atlantic City eager to tap into what was assured would be a NeverEnding gusher of prosperity casino gambling when casino gambling was was sold to state of New Jersey to Atlantic City as the Cure All who was going to bring it back to its Glory Days did that ever happen I mean you drove around today do you think this place is better than it was now do you think do you think it helped no I don't New Jersey native Brian Donahue is a reporter with 20 years experience focusing on South Jersey DOC Oyster House an establishment that survived prohibition the Great Depression two world wars numerous declines and rebirths still here still great a symbol of what Atlantic City was and should be again could be again to bring the city back after was declined is a really complicated hard process and they wanted easy answers and casino gambling was seen as an easy answer it sure sounded like a good idea they were going to this plan infect 12 casinos here and bring everybody up from the from the top down it has it worked now what you're left with just 12 casinos and if you're looking for an example of leming like Lurch towards a shiny new Cliff face from which to Tumble look no further than this $2.4 billion goat Rodeo the reel it opened in 2012 and closed less than 2 years later the most expensive Casino in New Jersey history they just forged ahead with it the hubus was incredible what were they thinking short-term money and at a time when all these other casinos were opening all over the entire East Coast which is nuts it's economics 101 casinos of course by Design neglect the city's existing assets Salt Air a walk by the Glorious North Atlantic the greatest of all the Earth's bodies of water the classic attractions the restaurants this is what it's going to take for Atlantic City to come back it's going to be on places like this celebrate the ghosts you know some nice crab cakes at docks a big freaking Lobster stuff with crab imperial pum sule those things are bad for business the business of taking your money thank you so much lovely that'll work that's good I don't want to sound like I'm down on Atlantic City because I see is an incredibly almost ludicrously hopeful place so whatever left of it should be to my mind hung on to cuz they're going to come around [Music] there's nothing funny about losing all your money yet casinos are steady employers of that most hardworking specie of Entertainer comedians Rich Voss and baronnie McFarland are two of the hardest working people around married to each other and New Jersey it's so much money to live here I drove three exits on the Jersey Turnpike it was $7 if you drive the whole New Jersey Turnpike when you get to the end you have to give them your car I'm going to tell you guys something thing that I don't generally tell people right away I'm a vegan I'm very passionate about it it's all about eating a crueltyfree lifestyle no animal animal byproduct of any kind I do cheat a little I eat ve so good so tender how do they get it like that I'm very sentimental about Jersey Italian particularly spaghetti and meatballs that's what I was going to go for I've been here at least 5 to 10 times and I've never had a bad meal ever okay I'm I'm I know what exactly the [Laughter] meatballs proud longtime residents of New Jersey no I've lived here nine years but only been proud maybe the last two it took me a long time to sort of get up to speed yeah born and bread yes my whole life he won't leave I had to make peace with him when's the first time you played Atlantic City there was a club at the Sands many times I would get paid on Thursday and I would lose it all and then I have to work for free there's no B worse feeling oh I know that feeling it's a nightmare you ever watch a couple in Atlantic City okay dear hold this money don't give it back to me no matter what I tell you I don't care what I say an hour later give me my Goddamn money no I'm not fooling around you're lucky I even brought you here [ __ ] you better give my money you're the reason I'm losing touching my arm when I'm shooting crabs is there a specifically Jersey sense of humor you notice I love Jersey audiences now so much because I've never one time ever said anything where people in the audience have gone a they never get a offend it we all have our words you know that we don't like the ones that affect us the most I have my trigger words as a white woman the word I don't like is no I don't hear it that often but when I do here's the deal with Jersey people land at North and they drive up to Turnpike they don't turn off and go up into the see the refineries they think that's New Jersey see that how sick is it that I think it's beautiful more horses per capita than any other state Northern New Jersey is the embroidery capital of the world yeah apparently I don't know where that's happening my exwife work for an embroidery company I swear to God I'll call her right now this is a taste of my youth for all of the marvelous things about New Jersey will people ever come across the bridge and the tunnel the other in the other direction no okay I did not have to think about that let's go out to Club in Jersey no no but you know what it's all relative a 25-year-old guy or girl is going we're not go to Jersey a 60-year-old person is going I'm getting out of the city there's your answer never going to be him you know what where does hypnus stop at what age hypnus is overrated yeah it is overrated you know what I love living here I love it Pine Valley the best golf course in the country Trump has beautiful course here Trump I'm not a fan who is every minute that he walks the Earth Demands a certain complicity to not shout out will you look at that ridiculous looking head it's like if you have a disfigurement that sort of tcid agreement that I'm just not going to bring it up that's too much to ask of me in tr's case I want to scream do you know why he puts his names on the building so the banks know which wants to take back okay at least he's a humble guy Jesus [Music] there are few American cities places where things have gone as disastrously wrong as Camden New Jersey it's like the poster child for everything a city could screw up once a manufacturing Powerhouse home to the New York ship building Corporation the Campbell Soup company and RCA Victor records a company town about 880,000 people live here today that's the same number of people who were employed during its Heyday nearly 40% of the city's high school students don't graduate the entire police force replaced by the state more than onethird of City residents live below the poverty line voter turnout not good if there's any place one could be forgiven for just throwing your hands up in the air and giving up it's here but no cities with serious problems need extraordinary people and Towanda Jones is clearly an extraordinary person when you give especially to someone who is really in Need You know I feel um it makes me feel complete her late grandfather Walter green Jr was a former military man an employee of RCA and a bodygard for the great boxer Jersey Joe Walcott he was just like the protector you know if you need anything you go Mr Dynamite that was his nickname he was also a man who believed in being part of the community when toand was 15 she was asked to lead a local drill team unfortunately it soon lost its funding Walter purchased 80 uniforms and three drums to give them a start move today CSS the Camden sophisticated sisters drill team which includes the distinguished brother and Taps the almighty percussion sound have over 320 participants good job babies good job clap it up for yourself clap it up clap it up we meet at neighborhood stalwart Tony and Ruth Stakes still doing what they do it doesn't get any better than this what was Camden like back in the good old days oh my God it was so different coming up when I was younger I didn't have to worry about you know my life being threatened coming outside you know the neighborhood everyone knew everybody that since the community was strong back then you're talking about your your childhood as if it was a real long time ago it's not that long ago all right what the hell went wrong people can blame it on the politics but I think that's just too easy many have failed our children but it's up to the parents to really start getting more involved in a kids's education you know know what your child is doing so you're pretty good principally on a baren absolutely this is tasty this is delicious so the conventional wisdom seem to be starting to get out of C why are you still here because the need is in Camden if every decent person in Camden leaves Camden then we never have a chance in order to be a part of the program they have to maintain the see average or better right it's all about their academics it's all about nurturing these kids what's right what's wrong you know the drill team does that they have different Sands that they go by every day it's a start without a finish it is possible it is never impossible if I can believe I can is possible possible possible and they believe this you know they say it so much until it's eded Towanda has helped CSS support itself with financial assistance from fellow parents and some fundraising temporary help and donations from small businesses but surprisingly for a group with a national profile no lasting support from official organizations or national institutions public or private yet she perseveres a lot of your practices have done Outdoors right all weather type of a situation yes we've been under bridges everything over 28 years we've been outside their safety is the most important to me you know but it's been a blessing and a curse cuz you'll have the corner boys come up to you and ask you miss Wawa are you having practice outside today and I say yeah and they're like today not a good day and I'm I'm like okay all right thank you very much that's nice you right you know I I appreciate it trust me how do you keep these kids off the corner I'm quite aware that times are hard but I just tried to show them an alternative route saying that there's so much more out there than this some of them call major pain but it's all out of love you know they need that struction discipline in life period to go to work to go to school they're doing it cuz it's fun right but it's hard you're asking people to do a hard thing and they're doing it yeah and I got to ask I'm going to guess that in the years that you've been doing this you had had your heartbroken many times you had have seen kids who you really believed in Fall by the wayside I'm guessing a l L how do you go on we we do have a lot of sad stories but we have more good our our good outweighs the bad you know and I keep going just for that reason you know um before I was a little hard on myself and um I used to actually think that I could save all the kids I know that's not the case you know um I just do the best that I can do and I'm just pray that the next kid doesn't you know Fall by the wayside how do you not become cynical do you harden your heart or you just no actually I have to replenish myself or I'm not going to be any good to them or my my own family these kids are like Precious Cargo to me some have pretty tough lives some of them have the responsibility of a 30-some year old they're holding down their homes and they're only kids no kid shouldn't have to go through that 25 years down the road what do you think Cam's going to be like wow I'm praying that it turns into the Camden that I remember and I know that I'm helping our Future Leaders to become a part of that change I'm very hopeful and there's no doubt in my mind that there is going to be a positive camping no doubt you're going to stay I'm not going anywhere my popup didn't leave I'm not [Music] leaving yeah I know Philadelphia is right over there right across the Ben Franklin Bridge the center of the cheese AK universe but what if it isn't they're better than that they're bigger than that and the best cheese steak in the area might well come from New Jersey donkeys opened by Leon Lucas 71 years ago a heavyweight contender in the 1928 Summer Olympics and boxing he was known during his time in the Cavalry as the donkey and they said he had a punch at a kick of a mule so somebody gave him the handle Dunkey and he kept it his son Robert runs the joint now and this is what they do here behold the Jersey chees state pleasure to meet you so this is the place the best uh cheese steak in South Jersey unless I'm mistaken in New Jersey in New Jersey period yeah is there a difference between jersey style and Philadelphia style yeah we do ours on a round poppy seed kaiser roll really I'll have one of those what's the way to go I mean anything I need to know or just no regular cheese and onions beautiful thing I need one Bo it's round it's got steak spices browned onions real American cheese such as it is and a poppy seed roll fantastic thank you sir and it is Sublime relish what do you think that's hot pepper yeah a little bit that little bit man I drove a long way for this thinking about it the whole way good man just should be like a national landmark right away this sandwich is unbelievably good thanks really a thing of beauty that's good to hear where driving across the state in a blizzard Fork well we get a lot of people from Philly no way Philly oh yes for sure wow that's treas do they like change the plates on their car and like wear a disguise I mean it's different the poppy sees help yeah I like this rolling it's awesome just delicious well I think we've learned something here today Jersey cheese steaks I'm not saying they're better than Philadelphia yeah I am actually so there this just great glad you enjoyed it [Music] the forest and empty spaces of New Jersey are vast and often empty of everything but Legend you live here if you like a quieter life of not being messed with 1.2 million Acres of Atlantic Cedar swampland forests it goes on and on seemingly at times forever it's easy to get lost in the Backwater marshes where the cranberries grow when I was a kid as we pass through the pine baronss on the way to the shore we joke nervously about pinies the strange possibly inbred tribes of people who actually lived out there live somewhere between the trees their own that was what we beli anyway Paul Evans Peterson Jeweler musician author and proud P we meet at the disconcertingly friendly Lucille's in Warren Grove for a delicious breakfast the legend of the Jersey Devil was Mother leads had 12 kids found herself pregnant with the 13th and say may this child be a devil there's many legends that are told about it that Legend says that when the Jersey Devil was born it morphed into this creature flew up the chimney and was going into the night other Legends say it killed everybody in the room it's supposed to have the head of a horse wings of a bat hoofs but you have people that say they've seen horns on it it breathes fire it's got a real long tail with a triangle on it I mean it sounds like My Little Pony with with with a fork tail it doesn't sound frightening to me it's supposed to have big red eyes and and some people say the head of a goat it's a big p goat goat's a little scarier the folks live in the baron they have a story they tell about that old Le woman and her child from hell the night morning he took Wings on and flew out into the night see still hearing scream man when the conditions are right yeah I swear it's true Pine [Music] [Applause] blue what's out there who are pinies do they roam the forest at night searching for souls to capture n pinies are people that live in the pine Barons there was a time years ago that if you would have called somebody like got a piny You' have got shot really but now people embrace it people like to to be thought of as living off the land they have bumper stickers now you know Piney power how do you make your living it's good to Farm blueberries and cranberries where it's a lot of fishing a lot of clamming hopefully the oystering is coming back in the Delaware Bay the bay supported a lot of jobs the pine Barons have been settled for a long time long time some of the first people that came here were the glass makers and saw this incredible sand that we have out here called Sugar Sand Pure White and it's perfect for making glass to the point that it didn't have to be washed or processed in any other way there was hundreds of Glass Works they're just ruins now [Music] [Applause] thank you right thank you so it's not like the rest of Jersey here oh no and I hope it stays like it it's like a jersey unto itself but out here like you saw had a long drive to get anywhere that's good by the way that's really good yeah is that great [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you want to talk Mythic epic storied anthemic that sort of thing welcome to Asbury Park Wellspring of American music of a certain kind home to yes the boss and the Jersey national anthem born to run9 the ha Street Springsteen Bon joobi little Steven but before them there was this man Southside Johnny who with his Asbury Jukes pretty much created the template for the Jersey sound a place and really it could have only been this place that changed music and lyrics forever Asbury Park it's had a reputation as being a happy hunting ground for musician because what lot of bars lot of bars it just was a tradition of bands playing here which is funny because the town was started not to have alcohol and not that kind of music but after a while the pressure just was too much for entertainment for people to come here and it morphed into an R&B and rock and roll haen most bars don't hire musicians they don't hire bands they too much trouble the Jersey Shore though I mean the Jersey Shore means people want entertainment it's not just hard drinking people there's people here on vacation in the summer Atlantic City didn't have that reputation well we're not Atlantic City where all right as I always like to say good is good forever great music great songs and a classic jersey sandwich and at Franks they honor that Jersey tradition of assertive layers of sliced ham salami pepperoni prone of tomato onions shredded lettuce you got your roasted peppers in there and most important your oil and vinegar which soaks into that soft fresh baked bread and marries it all together into a soggy glorious delivery vehicle for deliciousness here we go enjoy oh it's such a beautiful thing that they Shred the lettuce and everything you used to come here as a kid yes my father he would order like a pastrami sandwich and I'd eat like a third of it and he eat the rest of it and my brother would eat eggs and bacon so we had to order what he liked but he was a real trencher me he could really eat Asbury Park like its close cousin Atlantic City with whom it had so much in common suffered from much the same problems 14 years ago last time I came it was a shell of itself dying the beach is empty a sad and forlorn Place unlike Atlantic City though Asbury Park fought to fix itself to become again the kind of place that anybody would want to live in they didn't look for a Magic Bullet like casino gambling and to a great extent they've succeeded by keeping alive what made asur Park special they hung on to what was important like this place where any overgrown child still wants to play this spent youth thank God what tilt all no way that's delic come on hit hit baby hit man hey [Music] this is important for children I think so you know your first exposure to racy images of women are all set in some sort of 20s fetishistic alternate universe also it teaches you shame and teaches you humility when you lose at exactly the limits of how much you can break the rules before it tilts you know I think they should have tilt for all sorts of things I think so too you step over the line in a bar talking to a young lady tilt tilt and that way you know you got to start again oh I tilted it already I barely touched it what are they talking about that's what they all say wait a minute I'm a got own God see here I got a nut God let me play [Music] [Music] as I like to say good is good forever the Atlantic Ocean will always be magnificent looking at it always a humbling even educational experience it teaches us that men come and go but no matter how foolish or outsize their dreams how how badly they screw up what we do here at the Ocean's Edge the sea will Outlast us will always draw us to her edges when necessary it will crush us I mean look at the Taj this is completely oblivious to everything going on around it yeah and that has got to be the most butt ugly building ever I noticed last night that some of little lights on the sign on the building or out yeah it's like Trum something like that yeah or tump or rump I mean it's sort of perfect actually if you think of trump as sort of Carnival Barker his operations is designed to attract Rubes and empty you've got sort of a perfect metaphor here [Music] yeah I hate sweets but I'm a sucker for nost you can't go back I can't go back hell I wouldn't even if I could I sure don't want to ever have to be a teenager again but those tastes and smells of childhood they work still now you're telling me you were not a big saltwater taffy fan I just remember it was hard to chew you had braces remember so this was probably problem before that I don't know I can't remember if I had braces at that point I don't like candy generally but these have a mystical hold on me man even the color of the rapper has this weird you know like there should be weird music playing in the background bassas I totally remember that getting a bunch of those I don't know why certain flavors really resonant the peanut I know exactly what that tastes like I remember the vanilla really powerfully I'm not even a vanilla guy really I'm more a chocolate [Music] guy I think I remember pink ones so they must have had strawberry winter green I remember licorice sounds good the peppermints we keep these in the car try cookies and cream does it mil oh it's a lot of ta yeah this stuff isn't faty by the way you can eat as much as you want is it glutenfree it's all natural that's what I thought [Music] [Applause] Atlantic City will never die good is indeed good forever and Atlantic City will be great again Asbury Park Camden all of my home state I'm convinced When the tide has come and washed all the greed heads away we'll once again be magic I hope I'm there to see it