The Elizabeth Center at 13A — Attraction in Elizabeth

I had been to Elizabeth a long, long, time ago. That was in the middle of 1986, and also sometime in 1987, I don't exactly remember , a few times I just passed through the town on my way either to New York or to Boston. This was the first time in the Elizabeth center for me, though. I went there to pick a speaker that I had purchased online, from a very kind and decent person, for a very low amount for the gem I got, quite a while ago and had never picked it up, and he had tolerated that and had promised me to keep the speaker until I would pick it up and that he did. My first memory of this town was overshadowed by the fact that first time I was there,I was lost on the way and a kind Colombian person had helped me, took me to his home, treated me like a member of his family, except that neither I nor my distant relative who came to fetch me from his house felt comfortable by the fact this person was possibly involved in narcotics trade as I saw several handguns being flashed around in the house but I was blissfully unaware of that danger, nothing ever happened to me except that I spilled the drinks they had offered, after seeing the guns, and that my relatives kept yelling at me for the duration of my stay. Going there was a trip back in the memory lane, following Route 1 straight up to Parkway and then veering off from it to go towards the place, only enlivened by the fact we missed a crucial turn. As a result, we were diverted and had to approach the center from east through harborside, not from the front. Long live Google maps! We picked up the item, walked around, got to Ikea to relieve ourselves, and hoping to get something to take some food out from their restaurant, we were out of luck, they did not have any carryout containers left. As we did not have the time, we just gassed up and was on our way back, and I remembered that I had been on that route long ago, with the host family, on our way to Sesame place, with their daughter. The center was very clean, with humongous parking lot, the streets had flashing lights on the stop signs, a feature that was appreciated, I would love to go back and possibly visit my old friends as the man is in his eighties, the family had been very gracious and generous to me. Elizabeth was the first town that I lived in over a month, other than Waltham MA, where I had been living, after arriving in the US, in...

IKEA is the only reason I go to this Center. IKEA is set so far back which would be fine if there weren't speed bumps. I don't mind as much going in there, but when I have a car filled to the brim with expensive items, I don't want to damage them going over a bump that is there for no good reason. I'm going slow because I probably can't see out of my windows anyway and now you are purposefully bouncing everything around. Remove the bumps and you get 5 stars. For now you only get 4 because the...

Did you know Tues it opens at 11am. Myself and about 20 others did not know so we sat in the lot for an hour. Same Ikea, nothing different IMO. Except the Monsteras. $25 a piece. Glad they didn't know their worth and purchased 2. Can grow up to 8ft. New hobby, giant plants....