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Cool story! But I'm quite sure that NJ was not celebrating 300 years of statehood in 1964....maybe the first settlers? :)

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Yup! It was officially called the New Jersey Tercentenary Celebration and it commemorated the year that King Charles granted his brother James a large track of land that made up most of what we'd called NJ today. James named is New Jersey after the Isle of Jersey!

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That makes more sense!

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Yeah, they went all the way back LOL

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The name Impalas rang a bell, so I checked on YouTube, and sure enough, I'm familiar with "Sorry."

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Yes! Those are the Impalas but alas not our Impalas! I discovered several bands around that time by that name!

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Oh! I didn’t know there were multiple groups with that name,

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The one you're thinking of was the most famous apparently, both for their music but also because they were a racially integrated group! Quite bold for the time!

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