Charles Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, on Sunday, January 7, 1912. He was the son of Grace M. (née Spear; 1879–1943) and Charles Huey Addams (1873–1932), a piano company executive who had studied to be an architect. Known as "something of a rascal around the neighborhood," as childhood friends recalled.

A house on Elm Street and another on Dudley Avenue – into which police once caught him breaking and entering – are said to be [some of] the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons.

For real? NJ is the most densely populated state in the country, is the really that surprising that good shit can come from there?

By the way, have you ever eaten pizza in NJ? You can't swing a cat in that state without hitting like six restaurants that will all make the best pizza you've ever had before entering the state.