Setting: New Jersey, USA ( Read more... )

How would a modern New York (well, New Jersey, but it's my understanding they're very close-- please correct me if I'm wrong) accent sound to someone from 1940s New York? Would it be relatively the same? Would it imply any particular social status ( Read more... )

I had been searching for information concerning the US - New Jersey court system. As a Canadian I'm a bit out of the know. I managed to find parts of the information I wanted, as in which court this crime should've gone to, and the procedure of how it ought to go from police station to courts, but the events take place in the 1950s. I was hoping to ( Read more... )

Situation: Young man from Good Family goes to school to study International Business at the urgings of his family. After graduation and working at a good job for about three years, he decides to follow his passion and study to become a professional actor. He does have experience in acting and working backstage (general stage hand), from school ( Read more... )

Terms searched: Child protective services, foster home placement, school counseling, education laws ( Read more... )

Searched: Wikipedia (read the entries on Prohibition in the US, Legal drinking age, the entry on the 18th Amendment itself, and a few others tangentially related) and Google using various permutations of "alcohol law New Jersey", "liquor law New Jersey," "minimum alcohol purchase age New Jersey," with and without "historical" added. I actually ( Read more... )

Where: New Jersey, USA
When: Modern day ( Read more... )

I'm writing a short piece that will be based on a fictional home for juvenile deliquents in New Jersey in the 1950s. Anything you can contribute in the way of sources, tidbits, even building descriptions or photos might be useful, but my more specific questions are below ( Read more... )

Sorry. I wasn't really sure how to find this. I googled "gardens left fallow" but didn't see anything useful ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story in which the protagonist is living in a New Jersey group home for "problem children" (not necessarily delinquents) in the early 1950's. I'm trying to find out what life would be like for the residents of a group home around this time: Would they be allowed to leave the premises on their own, where would they attend school, what ( Read more... )