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""The African Queen" , Just love that boat!Been in the Real Queen once. Her home port is in Key Largo." Is it really? I first went down to Key Largo in 1973. They told us the famous movie was actually filmed in Key West, and I think they said the African Queens was there too. I was last down...

Interesting thread! I'm sorry to hear that the water level is dropping so much in the PB. The great Pine Barrens aquifer is one of the things that John McPhee talked about in his famous book, and how the water down there was all good to drink. And for Halloween: Long ago, two days after...

I photofixed the last one a bit. I guess the mod can move these pictures into a new thread...Sorry to hijack the bobwight thread...I remember those birds waking up in the morning camping, backpacking, out in the middle of the woods...or was that whipoorwills I remember? Duh. Whatever they...

1990 - the trees are already getting taller PS I should have made a new thread - the changing Pine Barrens Plains...

May 1976 again

May 1976

Here's another one of me in the Plains, Sep 22, 1971.

Same here. And as for the trees getting much taller, see my avatar. That's me in the Plains back in the early 70's, towering over the whole dwarf forest, like Paul Bunyan!

Great photos. I sure do miss that place. Frogs: I remember camping out by Bamber Lake one summer night - we slept in the car actually - 1970 I think - 44 years ago - the croaking of the frogs was so loud - I don't think you can hear it like that anyplace any more - the world amphibian...

Some people think that film is too new-fangled, and they are still making tintypes and daguerrotype photographs!

But #7 says buy strike anyplace matches. Those matches have not been sold in stores for many years. You can, however, still buy them online, like from amazon.

That man who murdered his daughter in law, or whoever she was, and then disappeared into Bear Mountain-Harriman State Park, in the autumn of 2012, they never found him either did they?

Awesome!!!

The lost town of Friendship, NJ. I remember the day I took the picture, the quiet country sounds of the farm animals. It was already more than half abandoned...

I sent you an email, Ben. EC - It looks like some sort of tank. I remember the livestock in Friendship, chickens and roosters and maybe sheep bleating or something. I remember the quiet country sound of the place.

Friendship

i tried to upload the new scanned photo here but i got an error message, maybe because the file is too big.

I rescanned the slide. Not really any more detail on the blowups (available on the original page) because of the grain limitations in the film, but slightly more extension to the sides, especially the left side, showing the complete tank on top of the little shed, and a little more of that...

Beats me, but the town was already going to ruin and only sparsely inhabited. The white building looks abandoned. Weren't all the inhabitants ordered to all move out by the next year or so? Why? Because the state bought the land and was going to build an airport there, or the military...

Guy took the Friendship now photo. I was back there with him last year. It sure has changed. But deep in the woods it's all still the same. I remember the day I took that picture. It was the first time I went to Friendship. It was very quiet except for the sounds of farm animals. Real...