Pestletown

[bobpbx]

Scott,

Just got back from a business trip to Orange County California, and this photo was on the front page when I logged in tonite. It was a nice welcome back. It says so much about our area, and nostalgia, and better times, and the value of open space, and how memories can be jostled and massaged by a good photo of days gone by. Just wanted to say that, and to say I really like the photo. Sue's mother would have made a beautiful painting from this.

 

[RednekF350]

Thanks Bob.
I sometimes wish I was able to raise my family in the days when that truck was going to work everyday.
Simpler times my friend.
Scott

 

[this_is_nascar]

Awesome. What resolution did you take that picture with? If it's a higher res than what's posted, could you email me the full-reso version?

 

[RednekF350]

Awesome. What resolution did you take that picture with? If it's a higher res than what's posted, could you email me the full-reso version?

The original was taken at 5 MP. It was in the winter of '05.
The version in my gallery is 600 x 449 and 645 x 483 if you click on it a second time.
Unfortunately, this photo was lost from my hard drive along with a lot of others in a computer crash a few years ago.
One of my sons overzealously reformatted the computer without attempting to recover the photos.
Remind me to kill him later.

 

[46er]

There used to be a very similar truck carcass sitting in the middle of the quail management zone in Greenwood WMA.

 

[this_is_nascar]

I don't recall the location, but we came across this in 2007. Note the pieces lying on the ground all around the cab.

 

[Teegate]

There is one like that sitting on an old wooden platform on Nature Conservancy property right near Warren Grove. I will make a point of stopping and taking a photo of it when I am in the area next. It was a few years ago I visited it and I can guarantee it is still there. Tree's had grown through it making it impossible to take.


Guy

 

[Teegate]

I bet those trucks could tell some stories.


Guy

 

[46er]

The one in Greenwood had a large tree coming thru the cab. I wish I had a camera back then, a classic shot. I'm pretty sure it was a Ford.

 

[bobpbx]

I told Guy about this one I found deep in the Pine Plains by a creek. It appears to be an old milk or dairy truck that was being used as a shelter in a blueberry field long abandonded. I often wonder how old it is. I think maybe 1940's or even older. You can see the word "Quaker" on the side.

Look at the wheel wells.

 

[glowordz]

Thanks everyone for the photos--these are the kind that writers dream about. The stories those trucks could tell . . .
Glo

 

[Teegate]

Well, I went out this morning to photograph the the truck I had found on Nature Conservancy property, and right by the Reevestown Cemetery I hit a piece of metal in the road and blew out a tire. I think it may have even damaged another tire so I changed it and headed home. An hour drive there and an hour back to the tire store, a twenty minute walk to the mall for lunch, and twentry minutes back to sit for a half hour. Not a fun day

Maybe tomorrow.

Guy

 

[GermanG]

If you like finding old cars and trucks in the woods, you'd love the one we found at Wells Mills some years ago after we did a prescribed burn. The fire cleared a dense patch of mountain laurel and exposed the rusting remains of an old Chevy truck that had wooden-spoked wheels and a crank start! The frame and cab where intact but the rear portion consisted of the frame only. There was a length of chain wrapped around the axle, trailing a distance behind the truck, so we assumed it was being used to haul cedar or other logs out of the woods when it died or was abandoned. I haven’t seen it for a few years but I’m sure it hasn’t gone anywhere.

 

[Teegate]

German,

Sounds interesting. When I get to that area again in the future I may search that one out.

Guy

 

[LARGO]

Might as well jump in. My dad's place years ago in the '50s & '60s was a little junkyard and behind was a farmer's place that he used to retire his old vehicles to a far corner of the property. They could have been a bleed over from either. That said, no one is sure who these actually belong to as they are not actually on my dad's land, yet seein' as they are in Pestletown and have been for many a year... have a look.
They are from a time forgotten none the less, and are a forlorn sight.
To spare you the drama, the bullet holes are from young fools practicing with firearms, not a result of a romantic notion of cops and robbers.

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These have always been fun to peek in on. Thanks for viewing.

g

 

[Teegate]

Thanks George! That last photo looks like it could be the same type of vehicle that this_is_nascar posted photo's of.

And the first one looks just like the car my friends dad had in front of his house when we were kids, until we set the front seat on fire.

Guy

 

[bobpbx]

They look like beasts George.

My Uncle owned a garage on route one in Edison, and the back of it turned into a junk yard real quick. I used to climb in and out of them in the mid-1960's looking for pennies. That musty smell...I can still smell it today, cars baking in summer heat. You'd see leftover posessions, like a doll, or a pack of camel cigarettes, or magazines, and I'd wonder what kind of people they were.

 

[GermanG]

German,

Sounds interesting. When I get to that area again in the future I may search that one out.

Guy

As it turns out, I ended up a few hundred yards from that spot shortly after my last post. Got a call from security requesting me to respond to the park to help search for a couple of lost teens, out on the trails well after dark. I’m back now. The teens are safe, but the lost dog that they got lost searching for is still out there. We’ll pick it up tomorrow.

Guy, I’ll send you the approximate location of that vehicle.

 

[woodjin]

I was looking at buying a 5 acre lot in Chatsworth in '95 or '96. Most of it was and old bluberry farm. Way out in the back, half buried in sand and mud and covered in cat brier was an old, circa 1930's-40's, sedan. Like the one pictured by George (Largo) but much worst for the wear. I remember thinking to myself...How did this car end up here? Some lonely corner of the Earth that maybe one person sees every 10 years. It does let the imagination run wild.

Hey Bob, remember that old tire we found when I took you out to those bogs off of 70 (the snapping turtle bogs)? that was an old one. It was completely in the middle of nowhere also.

Jeff

 

[Teegate]

I think maybe 1940's or even older.

The blueberry field does not show on the 1931 aerials but does in the 1956. By 1970 it is obviously no longer in use.


Guy