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A lot of people feel as you do, Bob., but I am fascinating by subterranean stuff, and what's more I like tight places. It's an ancestral thing that goes back to the ice age. I feel safe from cave bears and other big fierce Pleistocene animals in a nice cozy cave.

Oh I thought you knew how to get in the caves, Man. when you said, "Doesn't matter to me anyway.I know where the caves are when I am in the mood." I agree with what you were saying in almost all things, but maybe caves might be a bit of an exception as vandals trash them and destroy the...

I didn't know that. I used to be more concerned with me catching something from the bats rather than vice versa, like crawling through thousand year old guano and breathing it in. Do cavers ever get sick from that? "I know where the caves are when I am in the mood." Do you know how to get...

Hi, Manumuskin. I mostly caved in upstate NY, and a few in the west. I don't know if Leigh Cave is accessible anymore. Latest thing I noticed online (admittedly not searching very hard) was from 2002 saying access has been shut down: "Please note that access to Leigh Cave has been interrupted...

Love those sounds! I'm glad they're still around. I was afraid that amphibians are going extinct. I remember camping out by Bamber Lake one summer night about 1970. The croaking of the frogs was very loud. And I'm with the guys on this thread who love New Jersey, at least the nice parts, esp...

Ha I found it! It's spelled Leigh and it's NJ's largest cave. It's in Hunterdon County. There's a list of all NJ's caves here: http://www.nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin70.pdf

One of my sports used to be caving (spelunking). I was a member of the Met Grotto Caving Club in NYC, and I remember going caving with them once - about 1990 - in to cave in central or southern New Jersey called Lee Cavern or Lee Cave. It was locked with a gate so people couldn't get in, but...

What a sight that would have been to see it flying overhead, the length of an eighty story building!

There are derailed cars on both sides of the track in the "NJPB 22Sep1971 NJ Central RR" photo too, but they are hard to see. The track was near the Carranza Memorial. The track was a long straightaway so I don't know how they got derailed or what happened. There was a discussion of it on...

I've got some more pictures stashed away on 35mm slides and print film that have yet to be scanned.

And, finally, the 1969 NY Times Travel Section article that made me want to go down to see the Pines in the first place - "Wild and Windswept Plains that only the Jersey "Pineys" know" -

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Thanks, Woodjin. Here are some more.

That was the VW Sun Roof. I never had a sun roof Beetle but I had a few plain Beetles, starting with a '57, and my last one - the one with 300K - was a Super Beetle. Another good fresh air device was the vent window that cars used to have but have no more. But I had to put vent window locks on...

The so-called heater in those things was their very worst feature. You still see Beetles in mint condition out here in Arizona where there is virtually no rust. I spent a lot of ours underneath them adjusting the valve tappets and so forth, but I loved them. They never let me down. They were...

Love the Movietone News and the Movietone News announcers. They still had them in the movies when I was a kid - 26 cents childrens admission - but sneaking in the exit door was even cheaper - plus I'd get proudly escorted out of the theater by my own personal uniformed valet - that is to say...