Appearances in Popular Culture
The "TRENTON MAKES THE WORLD TAKES" sign can be seen in
- the movie Stealing Home when Mark Harmon's bus crosses the bridge
- the 1983 movie Baby, It's You as part of a road trip to the Jersey Shore
- the 2007 film Rocket Science
- the unaired pilot of House
- Trenton's Poor Righteous Teachers 1990 video of their song "Rock This Funky Joint"
- the 2012 comedy film One for the Money
- the 2012 Republican National Convention during Governor Chris Christie's Keynote Address
The Bridge is seen
- on the cover of The Cryptkeeper Five's 2004 album Trenton Makes.
- at the end of the film Human Desire (1954) starring Glenn Ford. He is a locomotive engineer who drives a train across the river, so that the sign is visible to viewers of the film.
- the beginning of the Gangland episode about Trenton
- in the logo of the Trenton Titans.
Local people sometimes refer to the bridge as the "Trenton Makes" bridge. Prior to the re-decking, the bridge was also referred to as the "Boom Boom" bridge due to the sound made by tires as the vehicle traveled over the expansion joints.
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Famous quotes containing the words appearances, popular and/or culture:
“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the nineties, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)