Court St Bridge work on schedule

[Homer Jones]

Now, if Ol' Homer's mind is still banging away on all 8 cylinders, didn't the Navy use blimps in WW ll to spot subs off the coast? These blimps would have been stationed in BLIMPie bases .

[BLeafe]

So you want to name the sub's replacement after a sub's nemesis?

If it's ever decided to incorporate something to do with BLIMP into what's there now, maybe they'll let you do the christening on the renamed USS BLING.

[Homer Jones]

I will be happy to help christen the new restaurant as long as they have a reception after the ceremony and serve sandwiches on torpedo rolls. The wait staff can serve the sandwiches dressed as navy HEROES.

[BLeafe]

Don't forget dessert!

[hankmc]

Does anyone remember the short lived yacht/restaurant docked near the courthouse? I was there a few times in the 80's and it was a shaky venture to say the least. Can't recall the name.

Food was edible but mostly a lunch or light menu as I recall. There was a dining room on the main deck and a bar with some tables upstairs. You would need a bigger boat to hold a galley able to prepare exceptional food so diners had to be drawn in by the view of the river and Bogota.

The first time I went there right after it opened they had Rocky Graziano seated at the top of the stairs working as a greeter. It was sad because I remembered him as a great fighter and ten years before would often see him walking around on Manhattan's East side where he lived, always smiling and returning hellos. Sadly by the 80's he was suffering the results of too many head blows and was only able to smile and wave to the folks coming up the stairs. Rocky looked happy and was making a few bucks so life was good in his world.

[Homer Jones]

Wow, I forgot all about that place. Went there for lunch 1 or 2 times and the one thing that I remember is that it listed to one side. The food wasn't memorable; but, on those 1 or 2 occassions, I was very happy to return to Terra Firma.

[hankmc]

Any memory of what the name of the good ship was Homer? About the same time there was a more elaborate vessel docked further South named the Aretusa. 18 bucks for a dozen oysters sticks in my mind.

That was a bigger yacht and the food was decent. A favorite stop on the way to or from the racetrack. Another entry would be The Barge in Carlstadt  which now appears to be something else. A good restaurant housed in an old river barge that had a trick moving bar top that made unknowing patrons think they had one too many.

The heyday of the swamp we all love.

[BLeafe]

Another day, another Ling letter in The Record:

[hankmc]

The job of bridge tender would be tough to fill if there ever was a marina North of the Court St. bridge. It would have to be a scheduled opening on the hour or something like that but I can't imagine where the operator would spend his off 55 minutes between openings. Did they build a tenders hut or a place to serve as a bathroom? Will there be a troll under the bridge? 

It could be considered a political plum or a sentence in hell depending on it's use.

As to the reason for the swing bridge, as Irons stated it is considered navigable water...look up the definition of navigable waterways and find it is firmly embedded in the Federal domain with D.C. deciding what is or is not a navigable waterway. The last thing I would want to do is to try to change the Federal mind on something as complex and far reaching as this, charts and all that stuff....lets just build a swing bridge and spend some money and make some jobs and everyone is happy.

[BLeafe]

A current post about George Stimmel prompted a search on this site for Stimmel images.

After going here - http://www.hackensacknow.org/index.php/topic,1028 - I came across the below image about which the Editor said, "My guess is that it is the Court Street Bridge under construction."

Whether it is or isn't, it kinda reminds me of a Court St Bridge shot I took last week (second image).

[Editor]

Very apropos.  I wonder if anyone will paint the new span.  If not, I'm sure we can count on a few good photos.

[Editor]

Some numbers on the Ling:

Draft (amount of depth needed to sail): 16'10".  Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/SS/SS-297_Ling.html

The current Hackensack River channel is 32 feet deep for the first 3 miles, 25 feet deep for the next ¼ mile, and 15 feet deep for an additional ½ mile. (Going south to north) Source: http://urbanhabitats.org/v02n01/3centuries_full.html

Assuming the above is correct, several miles would have to be dredged by almost two feet unless there was some way to reduce the draft, perhaps by removing some weight.

[BLeafe]

From The Record, Monday, May 16:

[irons35]

That boat isnt going anywhere, at least by water. it is so stuck in the silt the only way it is moving is by a cutting torch. nobody is going to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to dredge around it, and then, hope it doesnt split in two at the bottom when its moved.  a balao class sub does not have a very thick skin around its skeleton.

[Skipx219]

Prior to Tilcon & Raia...it was the Geo M. Brewster Ashphalt Plant..I back my Grand Fathers dump trucks under their Hopper many times.