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.
Read more about this topic: Lower Trenton Bridge
Famous quotes containing the words appearances, popular and/or culture:
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)