VWs preserving history

[TDCTDI]

Here is Riley Hill school, a "coloreds only" school that was built using contributions from the Rosenwald fund, in Wendell NC built in 1928 & closed in 1970. I have watched this building degrade over the past ten years due to vandalism & lack of maintenance. It has been condemned as of August 2017.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[79SuperVert]

The bascule bridge over the Elizabeth River at South Front Street in Elizabeth, NJ, built in 1922. It carries a roadway and a pedestrian walkway. It is the last operational drawbridge in Union County.

The Elizabeth River had seen commercial use since colonial times, and in those days it was the preferred way to travel from New York City to Philadelphia, by taking a boat from Manhattan to Elizabeth and then switching to a stage coach. When the New Jersey Turnpike opened in 1951, the portion of the highway that passes over the Elizabeth River ended ocean-going navigation on the river, because there was no provision for it to open for river traffic and it was not built high enough to let ships pass underneath.

The bridge has been rehabilitated several times but has remained in the open position since 2011 while the possibility of designation as a national historic site is pursued. Despite the fact that there is no more commercial navigation on the river, while it was in use the bridge was opened approximately 2,000 times a year for recreational traffic.
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Central Jersey VW Society

Wanted: Art Collins VW (Savannah, Georgia) items - license plate surrounds and other items. Also ivory "AM", "FM" and "SW" buttons for a US Blaupunkt Frankfurt.

[Morganwerk]

This is my Mom's 1956 parked in front of the base housing on Hamilton AFB near Novato CA. The base was decommissioned in 1974. This photo is from 1965.

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Gary
1966 1300 Sea Sand
2003 GTi VR6

[TDCTDI]

Abandoned farmhouse & cemetery under the watchful eyes of a committee.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TDCTDI]

Neat, old Victorian in Nashville NC.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[René R.]

Janis Joplin's last home, in Larkspur, CA. She lived here for the last two years of her short life.

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Gone but not forgotten: 1950 Hoffman split (restored in 1966) - another 1950 Hoffman split (restored in 1996)

[TDCTDI]

Still cool, but you already posted that one.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TDCTDI]

Here's another forgotten old "farmhouse" I don't know the history behind it but the detail of the dentil molding suggests that it was slightly more grand at one point.

The three or four other "living quarters" were much simpler.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TDCTDI]

Yet another long since abandoned school in Castalia NC

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[oprn]

Cool idea, I like it!

[René R.]

[hitest]

[TDCTDI]

Another abandoned but maintained farmhouse outside of Springhope NC.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[mukluk]

Made my way out to the old wooden plank suspension bridge near Regency, TX today. Notable stats include it was built in 1939 mostly by hand, 325ft long, and it is the last suspension bridge in Texas that is still open to vehicle traffic.

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1960 Ragtop w/Semaphores "Inga"

[Pruneman99]

[Second Air Force]

This is a great thread!

Here's a photo I took late last fall of our CC sitting on the threshold of Runway 31 at McCook Army Air Field in southwestern Nebraska. McCook was a training base for B-24s and later B-29s during WWII. After the war the base was declared surplus to needs and reverted to farm use and as a civil airport for a number of years. Most of the runways and apron have had the concrete recycled and corn and soybeans now grows there again.

The irony of this is that our German-built car is sitting on a runway that trained B-24 crews who went on to bomb Germany!

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1956 Standard Sedan

[TDCTDI]

Old abandoned general store near Castalia NC.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TDCTDI]

Old rural farmhouse on Riley Hill road near Zebulon NC recently uncovered by tree clearing for road expansion or utilities construction.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[EverettB]

TDCTDI - I've been wondering something:
Are you trying to make these photos spooky or is your camera lens just greasy?
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