Such a beautiful carousel! How old is it? Super nice day there. Visibility is incredible! Chuck
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I copied and pasted from my post not too long ago Chuck…….”This carved wooden 48 carousel was built in 1922 by The Philadelphia Toboggan Company and was originally installed in Ohio’s Idora Park Amusement Park- originally named Idora Merry-Go-Round. This carousel went into auction in 1984 and painstakingly restored by Jane and David Walentas. The pavilion was designed by Architect Jean Nouvel and opened in 2011 Brooklyn Bridge Park overlooking The East River”.
I took those 2 days consecutively about the same time. Just a really great spot to think, relax, read, eat and just be able to take in the view. There is a taxi ferry that will take you across Manhattan or vice versa or you can walk either bridge (30-25 minutes to get across either the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridge take the subway. It is magical at night…..
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Thanks! I now do recall you had posted previously. Chuck
A cloudy and rainy day at Pier 17 (formerly “The South Street Seaport”):
I had “a moment” and remember my Father-In-Law when I saw this bronze sculptor by artist John Collier, titled “St. Joseph Patron Saint of Workers”. He was a carpenter who built barracks for the Army during the Vietnam War. But, as simple as this shows with just a board and a hammer in hand, he loved framing and seeing them go up was a days accomplishment for him. He thought me everything I know about carpentry, construction and everything else in between and always treated me like a son.
This sculpture is a tribute for those construction workers responsible for rebuilding and construction effort on 9/11 and resides at the entrance southwest corner of St. Peter’s RC Church.
This sculpture is a tribute for those construction workers responsible for rebuilding and construction effort on 9/11 and resides at the entrance southwest corner of St. Peter’s RC Church.
That there is some money bub!
What's with Miss Liberty's Chariot? Everything else looks refinished, but not that one.
@Mike Hill- there are only 2 of those chariot’s and you have a good eye. My take as both conservationist and preservationist is that she left those intact as is because they were readable (blisters from the fire) and leaving a trace of history. Idora Amusement Park in Ohio operated for about 99 years until a large portion of it burned down in 1984 that was caused by a worker who was “scraping paint with a torch” inside a tunnel of one of the attractions. Jane acquired all of the carousel in an auction in 1985 and painstakingly restored them back to their original historical beginnings. This woman has given away her own money in millions to complete Brooklyn Bridge Park. She was featured in Good Morning America and there is a photo of her working and you can see in her window was just adjacent to the base of Manhattan Bridge: https://janescarousel.com/in-the-media/
We need more individuals like her to step up into the plate, to do what she has done so the next generation can experience what it was like to have something that is both nostalgic and historic. It is probably one of the few old school attractions that any age can enjoy and bring them back of the lost yesteryear.
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@Mike Hill - it cost 9 million for this pavilion; steel frame, glass and acrylic fixed panels. It is 72’ x 72’ square with a 26’ ceiling height. The carousel is 50’ in diameter. I have more photo’s of the details as I am into that for things I design for architectural and interior and it is good reference to have. The side panels are thick acrylic- it probably is about 2” thick and there is a center steel rod and sealant in between the panels. I don’t know how these panels hold up- meaning if they distort during the hot summers where the sun is directly hitting the panels and during the winter when there is cold outside and heated inside environment.
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Took our float tubes to a little local lake up in the Ochoco's today. The gate to the campground was locked so we had to schlep our stuff down the hill to the lake (read that means we had to schlep it back UP the hill after paddling around the lake all day). Fish were taking leeches slow retrieved and then switched to chasing caddis so I changed to a Prince nymph with a gold-ribbed hare's ear trailer. Caught this respectable rainbow and had another of equal size bust me off. Worth the schlep.
^Speaking off enjoying the moment and slowing things down, I just did just that and had lunch in one of the benches at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and was able to capture these folks in how they spend their time. You get older, any of you feel like “in that mode” just the older gentleman’s on the left where taking in the moment to enjoy the view and the beautiful day, or do any of you still feel like younger gentleman on the right where the day is young yet and let’s see what else is there? This was all sequential shots.
Same spot, in color and just amazing how a “painting” of a cloud formation takes shape in the sky…………..
Double rainbow trying to peek out
I only post this because I am insanely jealous of others fishing in beautiful places!
Luckily that only forms after I get wet. Otherwise, hiking down that hill schlepping my tube and lunch would have been really hard.
I borrowed my neighbor's float tube and fins because I'd sold mine to upgrade to a pontoon. Tube is smaller and easier to haul around. The fins are those Force Fins. Expensive buggers but work pretty well. Wore them over the neoprene foot of my waders and stayed put, fairly easy to walk on short distances when you get in and out of the tube.
I borrowed my neighbor's float tube and fins because I'd sold mine to upgrade to a pontoon. Tube is smaller and easier to haul around. The fins are those Force Fins. Expensive buggers but work pretty well. Wore them over the neoprene foot of my waders and stayed put, fairly easy to walk on short distances when you get in and out of the tube.
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I love time lapse videos of clouds forming.
High bush cranberry
Wild geranium
Wild geranium
Great pics, Arn
Some pictures from my deep desert Oman trip. I'm sure there are some mummies or rare scrolls hidden in there somewhere.
Okay ... so this is Paint Mines that is about 10-15 minutes from me out a bit east of Colorado Springs. Cool formations of a wide-color variety of clay-ish formations. Frequently used by all the Indian tribes that lived in this area. I was beyond surprised to find this public park set out in the "flat" plains of east Colorado.
Okay ... so this is Paint Mines that is about 10-15 minutes from me out a bit east of Colorado Springs. Cool formations of a wide-color variety of clay-ish formations. Frequently used by all the Indian tribes that lived in this area. I was beyond surprised to find this public park set out in the "flat" plains of east Colorado.
Zombie locust.
Nothing you haven't seen before, but my trellis poles have sprouted. Black locust I cut posts from last fall and planted this spring. Don't have cross beams yet, but mowing today and noticed they've both sprouted. We will see how long they last.
Nothing you haven't seen before, but my trellis poles have sprouted. Black locust I cut posts from last fall and planted this spring. Don't have cross beams yet, but mowing today and noticed they've both sprouted. We will see how long they last.
