where will the deer go
on 07/28/2013 at 11:14 AM
I always wondered what you would post on a REALLY SLOW news day,and here it is. Thanks.
The main reason I’m hauling ass out of the “Garden State”. The Northern Part of the State has turned into a combination of: The Bronx, Jamaica, Queens and Brooklyn .
When I was a young lad growing up in Haworth (Bergen county) in the early 50’s there were NO malls in Paramus. Instead there were huge celery and lettuce farms. Our family had one car and the bicycle was the main means of travel for us kids. Vacations were spotty at best. Most summers were spent playing baseball or just hanging out watching the steam trains haul freight on the West Shore Line from Bruster, NY down to Hoboken, NJ. Weren’t noth sweeter than the smell of coal fire smoke except the skunk cabbage down by the Oradell reserviour.
The Rte-17 & Rte-4 intersection had NO multiple overpasses. There was a traffic light.
There was an “ice house” on Rte-46 in Saddle Brook, NJ where for a dollar you could buy a block of ice the size of a large suitcase. Why would you want this? To chop up and put in a galvanized garbage can to cool the beer cans for a picnic. There were no plastic bags. Garbage was put in brown paper bags and then into garbage cans. Milk and bread were delivered to the house. Milk in glass containers. We still used real ink pens and ink wells in our elementary school. We practiced penmanship till our fingers were numb on lined paper. No computers, no color TV and a “land-line” rotary phone shared with another family. Life was good then.
But that was a lifetime ago.
By September I hope to be settled in to a small town in the far Western reaches of North Carolina. I’m betting it won’t get spoiled in the short time I have left.
I’m betting it won’t get spoiled in the short time I have left.
Hey Raff .... don’t like the looks of that. Are you telling us something I hope you aren’t.
NJY - hey, there’s a reason NJ is called the Garden State. Once upon a time, fresh ripe seasonal produce trucked every day to NYC and Philly. Then “smart folks” found they could save 3 pennies and get some bred-for-shipping, picked green, tasteless crap brought in from California and points south. And that was that, and it was all over except for the suburban sprawl. But you could now get “tomatoes” in February.
Yup, I remember when the big mall at Rt4 & Forrest Ave was an outdoor strip mall, with a soup kitchen. The 4 & 17 interchange has been one of the worst in the nation since the mid 70s. I haven’t been down thataway by FDU in ... 30 years?
Drew, that is not a steam shovel. It is a little toy. This is a what used to be powered by steam, now electric shovel. http://www.minepro.com/MinePro/Literature/Brochures/XS4921_2300XPC_DC_BRO.pdf
07/29/2013 at 02:55 AM
07/29/2013 at 10:45 AM
