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That's what I said, boss! "my ancient Volvo wagon..." My first car was a used red Volvo 544, 1961 I think. Later on I had a 1958 Saab. Later on I had a Mercedes Benz that I bought from Romany gypsies in Brooklyn for $200. Mostly though I had VW Beetles back then. They were the best thing...

Sounds real interesting. Speaking of out of the way places I was just talking about the times I went to Boulder, Utah, in the far south of the state. It is very remote and spectacular country...but it's one of those places that "you can't get there from here". I live in southern Arizona now...

Pleased to meet you, Jersey D! I've spent many nights sleeping in the Pine Barrens and I always sleep soundly in those woods. The Jersey Devil watches over me. He's my friend. PS I just recalled the last time I slept in there, and by then i was a visitor from far away, and that was years ago...

I like your avatar, Manumuskin. No offense, but you look like you might have some Jersey Devil blood in your family line!

If Uncle Ed had no liquor license and the cops hung out there that's good enough for me - it was a speakeasy! It was in the far south of NJ but I guess that wasn't far enough south for it to have been called a blind tiger. Is it all gone now, maybe turned into a burger king?

Extreme but effective.

Cool...but a speakeasy in the 1970's thru 90's? But likker was legal then! Perhaps it was a private club like the old Bucket of Blood in my old neighborhood, Inwood, NYC, turned into in its latter days - and maybe it still is for all I know - it looks sealed up from the outside. And you know...

Next they will be outlawing smoking while in a car which might actually be a good thing if it worked. Then people wouldn't throw cigarettes out the car window. But these laws are really backdoor attempts to outlaw smoking and drinking - all the police traffic stop sobriety checks, laws against...

Here are some blowups of the Friendship photo that I took on September 22, 1971...

Just delete this thread, or the attachment, if it might be a problem. I don't have a paper copy. As i recall i once paid them to download the online article. Doesn't that give me some ownership rights to it? Anyway, that article was what first made me fall in love with the Pine Barrens*. I had...

If my posting this violates the "important rule for this forum" please delete it (tho the team of Philadelphia lawyers that i keep on retainer said it's OK...but I don't trust them).

I read this almost fifty years ago, October 1969, and I was intrigued, and then i drove my VW down from Manhattan to see it for myself.

Thanks, Boyd!

The Friendship photo is mine. I took a lot of photos around the Barrens that day, but unfortunately only that one of the still partially inhabited town of Friendship.

Oh man I'm always having problems with Garmin trying to obsolete me and my 15 year old Garmin 276c. I started using their gps's back before hardly anyone knew what GPS was, with pre map Garmin model 2 (when that one broke they sent me the model 2+ for free - they were real nice in their early...

No it isn't. Was that photo heavily shopped? The fishing pole seems to bend the sky, which is weird to begin with!

Where was my friend the Jersey Devil when I really needed him!? Godzilla didn't really turn my VW over but he almost did. Shook me up. Almost made me spill my beer.

Godzilla overturned my VW back in the 1970's. I never reported it to the police because I thought they would think I was crazy. OK seriously I just thought of one thing I never reported to the police. I was driving way back in the Plains and I was surprised to see a guy with his thumb out...

And forty years ago in 1976

Me in the NJPB Plains 1971