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oprn
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Today we laid my Uncle to rest in another cemetery and I had a couple pictures to show the next 2 generations of my family but as they don't allow vehicles to drive all over the cemetery to get photos next to grave stones and admin just deletes them anyway, I won't waste your time and mine.
Thanks.
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bigdog1962
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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The Caretaker's Cottage (1845) was built for the gate keeper and his family at the Augusta Canal. The canal was built in 1845 to provide power, water and a source of transportation. At the far end of the canal, the Confederate States Powder Works was built to supply ammunition and war material. After the war, factories and mills were built. Around the 1950s, the textile mills began closing.
Caretaker's Cottage
The Locks
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63vwdriver
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 5:00 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Dari Delite, a long-time ice cream stand in East Windsor, Connecticut, will close for good August 28, 2022. It has been in business on US Route 5 since the late 1950s and still looks much the same as it did when it first opened. I thought it would be nice to get some pictures of my '69 convertible to honor the end of an era. |
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iowegian 
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:47 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Dari Delite, a long-time ice cream stand in East Windsor, Connecticut, will close for good August 28, 2022. It has been in business on US Route 5 since the late 1950s and still looks much the same as it did when it first opened. I thought it would be nice to get some pictures of my '69 convertible to honor the end of an era. |
A great photo. I just love those old ice cream shops. |
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oprn
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:18 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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That brings back memories of the Dairy Queen in the town I grew up in. Virtually the same building but it had a big two dimensional ice cream cone on the top. They didn't do hamburgers back in those days.
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63vwdriver
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 8:43 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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The Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut. Built in 1876, it is still a venue for live theatrical performances. I've owned my '63 Beetle since 1990.
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Q-Dog
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 8:57 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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| 63vwdriver wrote: |
Dari Delite, a long-time ice cream stand in East Windsor, Connecticut, will close for good August 28, 2022. It has been in business on US Route 5 since the late 1950s and still looks much the same as it did when it first opened. I thought it would be nice to get some pictures of my '69 convertible to honor the end of an era. |
Nice photo. It seems like every small town around where I live had a place like this. Most of them are gone now.
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 10:00 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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| 63vwdriver wrote: |
Dari Delite, a long-time ice cream stand in East Windsor, Connecticut, will close for good August 28, 2022. It has been in business on US Route 5 since the late 1950s and still looks much the same as it did when it first opened. I thought it would be nice to get some pictures of my '69 convertible to honor the end of an era. |
Nice photo. It seems like every small town around where I live had a place like this. Most of them are gone now. |
Yep, on one of my trips to nearby Simsbury, CT, I made a point to have a cone from a place like this. Timeless! |
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bandi
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Found this while out on a bit of a backroad exploration. I thought it was a schoolhouse but did a bit of reading and learned it was an Orange Lodge.
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bigdog1962
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| I thought it was a schoolhouse but did a bit of reading and learned it was an Orange Lodge. |
My first thought was wondering if it was a church. Then I googled Orange Lodge (which I had never heard of) and found out it is a religious organization.
Never heard of it before. You learn something new every day.
Did you peek inside?
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bandi
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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| bandi wrote: |
| I thought it was a schoolhouse but did a bit of reading and learned it was an Orange Lodge. |
My first thought was wondering if it was a church. Then I googled Orange Lodge (which I had never heard of) and found out it is a religious organization.
Never heard of it before. You learn something new every day.
Did you peek inside? |
Both of the doors were locked, but I'll keep checking - abandoned buildings are my other hobby!
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bigdog1962
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Weed School - built in 1936 for black children and named after the Rev. Edwin Weed. It was bought several years ago for $25,000 after it was abandoned around 2005. Plans were to renovate it into apartments but as you can see those plans have stalled for several years.
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KTPhil
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| I'm guessing they forgot where it was and are lost, and then since forgot what they were planning to do with it. |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:23 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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…or stopped for 100 Whoppers…..
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Bus delivers students to Weed School.
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bigdog1962
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 5:46 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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^^^^^LOLOL!
October 24 - The old Weed School was put up for sale on Friday for nearly $1.3 million, according to a news release from Bramble Real Estate Services based out of Atlanta.
I suspect the only weed that comes with it is what's growing around "the joint."
(Like what I did there?  )
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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| $35K to $1.3M ... not a bad investment! |
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Bonesberg55
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:23 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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| I expect to see VW history changed. |
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:23 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I met up with fellow Sambanista Vamram at this historic marker in Eureka NC…
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Rome
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 11:20 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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| I met up with fellow Sambanista Vamram at this historic marker in Eureka NC… |
Great that you both could meet up! I met Vamram and his same Beetle in summer 2022 up here in New York, when he drove it to his family vacation spot nearby.
In May 2012 I joined a small vintage VW group for a spring cruise in the Hudson Valley of southern New York, by Classic VW Bugs. We stopped at the eastbound toll booth of the steel suspension Bear Mountain Bridge (opened 1924), which takes US Route 6 over the Hudson River a few miles south of West Point. Chris Vallone was driving his restored blue '54 or early '55 Beetle. I was in my Pearl White '64 Karmann Ghia Cabrio.
The toll booth was completely dismantled by late 2021, replaced with E-Z Pass sensors. This is how the bridge approach looks now:
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