Posted: April 11th, 2012 | Filed under: Out Of Town
We were up in the Rhinebeck area for a wedding during Memorial Day 2011.
Market Street, with its requisite iconic wooden Indian and Doughboy:
The A.L. Stickle store on Market Street is hard to describe — other than totally awesome, that is. It’s a time capsule of sorts what with all those Revell model car kits (do you remember Revell model cars? do kids still sniff model glue?) and vintage display cases. I remember huge zipper displays in our local supermarket — what happened to all that stuff? I haven’t thought about some of these things in years. So wonderful . . .
We bought some herbs and various plants at the Rhinebeck Farmers Market for the backyard.
Mill Street and Montgomery Street both comprise U.S. 9 around Rhinebeck; one is U.S. 9 north of Market Street and the other is U.S. 9 south of Market Street. The Rhinebeck Reformed Church is on Mill Street, just past the Lions Club Eyeglass Drop Box:
The wedding was at Camp Rising Sun in Clinton.
Posted: March 28th, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Out Of Town, Queens
First part of 2011 . . . I’m caught up to about May now . . .
We saw the Supermoon on March 19, 2011 from the Westfield New Jersey Transit station:
Hard to believe how little snow there was this year, especially compared to last year:
One thing I’ll miss/won’t miss about our old neighborhood is how many film shoots there were there:
There’s a sort of park/playground in the old neighborhood that was created from a sliver of land leftover from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel called Old Hickory Park, which the Parks Department seems to have disowned, at least judging by the fact that it’s somehow disappeared from their website. The name is a goof on Jackson Avenue, “Old Hickory” being Andrew Jackson’s nickname. Stupidly esoteric:
Robert Moses did a lot of neat things in the New York City area. He also oversaw a bunch of ridiculous orphan roads. The Prospect Expressway, for example:
Blockbuster closed and some guys eventually took away the sign:
Back when we lived in Astoria we called this passage to the municipal parking lot “Deuce Alley” because it smelled like people took shits back there. Now it’s gussied up all fancy and such:
I love the fact that there are public restrooms at the end of the subway lines. This is graffiti from the Ditmars Boulevard Station on the N/Q line in Queens. The idea of having sex in one of these restrooms boggles my mind; I can’t think of a worse place to do it:
On the other end of the spectrum, Michael Bolton graffiti at Sweet Afton, which is where we celebrated Kawama:
Posted: March 13th, 2012 | Filed under: Out Of Town
We didn’t get down to Philadelphia as much as we usually do in 2011, what with moving and baby stuff, but there were a few Phillies games we went down there for, basically in May and June.
We (or some of us at least) ate a Pork Scrapple slider at White Dog in University City:
Before we installed the toilet at Kawama, and before we even ordered the toilet on Amazon, we checked out toilets at the Lowe’s in South Philadelphia. They want you to know that it’s not too difficult to install them yourself:
Just across the parking lot at IKEA (where we bought pulls for the cabinets) you get a nice view of the S.S. United States from the Meatball Chamber:
At the Braves-Phillies game, we saw how much of the Spectrum was finally gone:
Later in May, I think I took this picture because I was surprised how expensive gas was. That seems reasonable today . . .
At the day game on the 21st against the Rangers, it was just after the end of the world and everyone was still a little anxious:
And at the game in June against the Cubs, expectations about the season were sky high:
Of course we know how that turned out:
