Dave Amato: A Vanished Breed

RednekF350

RednekF350

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Over the last few weeks you have seen some information and photos from Guy and myself about a piney named Dave Amato .
He died about 25 years ago and his house is still standing.
An older friend of mine knew Dave and cut an article out of the AC Press from August 1968 that was about Dave and his life in the pines.
It is entitled The Piney: A Vanishing Breed.
It is very interesting and one of 4 parts. I have only part one about Dave.
I am linking to photobucket and I hope this works.
Thanks to Guy for stitching the scanned image together and helping me through that process.
You may need another program to be able to zoom it and read it but I am not that smart when it comes to that. Try it and I will see what I can do to improve it.
Enjoy.
Scott
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c322/RednekF350/?action=view&current=DaveAmatoArticle.jpg
 
bobpbx

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We have to get a better scan Scott. Even though I downloaded it and opened it with my photo program, the pixel quality is not there to read it. Can you set your scanner to a super fine setting, like a "quality photo"?

I'd love to read it. Do you know where the name "amato" originates? Was he of Italian heritage?
 
RednekF350

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bobpbx said:
We have to get a better scan Scott. Even though I downloaded it and opened it with my photo program, the pixel quality is not there to read it. Can you set your scanner to a super fine setting, like a "quality photo"?

I'd love to read it. Do you know where the name "amato" originates? Was he of Italian heritage?
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Yes he was Italian, as is most of Hammonton today.
I originally scanned it at 600dpi but the file was huge.
A friend at work kicked it down to 300dpi and that was emailable at 1.24 meg.
I really have no idea what I am doing with the scanner.
I am going to attempt it again with some help from the guy in work.
I also have a photo of Dave and my friend Bill from around 1947 with the house in the background that I will try to post.
Scott
 
LARGO

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TeeGate said:
I don't know what happened between me and you but it somehow was altered. Here is the one I sent you Scott.Guy
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This one comes up nicely and reads fine, at least on my work Macheen.
Good article. And they thought civilization was encroaching back then.
Whoo boy.
 
RednekF350

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TeeGate said:
I don't know what happened between me and you but it somehow was altered. Here is the one I sent you Scott.

http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegat...DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2348&g2_serialNumber=1

Guy
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All I thought I did was upload it to Photobucket.
That may have resized it.
As I said, I am clueless on this end of the computer spectrum.
Guy, I have the scanned image of my friend Bill, John Fenimore a friend of Bill's and Dave Amato. They are standing in front of the house on the garage side.
Bill estimates the photo was taken in 1947.
I will forward it to you and if you don't mind, would you post or expalin to me how to do it properly?
I will send it in a minute.
Scott
 
Teegate

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suresue592003 said:
I would love to read the article posted on Dave Amato back in 1968, but it is to small to read. Hey guys, anyway we can make the text bigger?
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Read the next few posts. The link is there.

Guy
 
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suresue592003

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Sorry guys it was only after I posted that I found the link with the bigger text. That article was great! I will be getting more information on him through my other connections. I can't wait to see what he knows about Dave Amato.
 
bobpbx

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Good article. If he died about 25 years ago, it was at the dawn of the Pinelands designation as a National Reserve. You wouldn't think an Italian would fall in love with the pines, would you? I'm Danish / Italian, and I sure have. :cool:
 
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Scott,

I do not know what paint program you use, but they are all basically the same. Here is how mine works.

Open the photo you scanned and look for where it shows the size info on it. Your photo is 1839 x2040 pixels. The top photo reflects that and shows Bill quite large. Change the “width” pixel setting to 800 and the “height” pixel will automatically change accordingly. Notice in the second photo Bill is smaller and the width pixel is 800. Now save the photo and it will be smaller.

size_.jpg


Sometimes instead of “pixel” it may say “percent”, so you would most likely choose 50 percent and then save it. Remember to save it under a different name or to a different location or you will loose your large photo.

Guy
 
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The one in the above photo is Scott's friend Bill.

Guy
 
RednekF350

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bobpbx said:
Thats him then? Looks like a guy I would have gotten along with very well.
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Bob,
The photo in post 9 of this thread shows, from left to right, Dave Amato, John Fenimore and my friend Bill Schemel.
Bill thinks it was taken around 1947.
Bill told me Thursday night that another member of our gun club befriended Dave and he and his wife would stay at Dave's place on weekends as a getaway spot. They had built makeshift sleeping quarters in the garage section of the house.
 
RednekF350

RednekF350

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TeeGate said:
Scott,

I do not know what paint program you use, but they are all basically the same. Here is how mine works.
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As far as I know I think my paint program is Sherwin Williams!
I do have Kodak Easyshare software that works with my camera. I will try to bring the picture in to that because it does have resizing options.
Thanks for all of your help.
Scott
 
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Y-BUC-BILL

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This Thread is nice reading,especially that I was a friend of Dave's.John Fenimore and I rode in motorcycle enduro events in the Wharton Tract ,begining in 1947.It was through John that I met Dave.Dave loved children and he would say "bring your wife[Peggy] and your kids down for a visit and turn them loose"We visited Dave many times.I belonged to Meteor motorcycle club at that time.One Sat.a gang of us went down Dave,s.The gal's and kids set up a picnic and the guy's painted Dave's house..I have a lot of short stories to relate if you all want me to print them.Scott ,I have the other 3 articles .Will see that you get them.
 
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