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Hackensack Discussion / Re: HUMC Rooftop Garden
« on: June 08, 2011, 03:36:03 PM »
I enjoyed the roof top garden in the main building of HUMC when I was in for three separate week long chemo treatments in May of 2004.

A great place to drag your IV stand and the daily paper to get some Sun and fresh air along with a more positive attitude than was usually available "inside".

Smokers still able to breathe also took advantage of the great outdoors but stayed in an area that was away from the general population. Being a reformed smoker I had sympathy for them but also took pleasure in having quit since smoking in the hospital garden seemed to me to be like drinking at an AA meeting.   

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Greetings Hackensack!
« on: June 08, 2011, 03:20:41 PM »
Quote from: Chief Oratam on June 07, 2011, 08:57:18 PM
Quote from: hankmc on June 07, 2011, 01:34:30 PM
oily cheesy pizza.

That's why on the rare occasion that my family would go out to eat....I would always vote to go to Pinto's on green st...for pizza and mussel's...I liked Pinto's pie better...

Welcome Rick.......

"oily cheesy" was meant as a compliment to their pizza not a complaint. ;D

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Greetings Hackensack!
« on: June 07, 2011, 01:34:30 PM »
B&W crumb cake and Old Judge pizza. The Judge was the best place to bring your kids for thin crust oily cheesy pizza. Before and after you ate they could run around the dining room with other kids and no one minded at all. Great juke box too.

I remember going up to the kitchen area to pay your bill at the end of the meal. The elderly waitress had all the patience in the world for us noisy intruders.

The only place I remember that came close to being this kid friendly was Hagler's in Oradell.

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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Photography...........the way I see it
« on: June 04, 2011, 09:06:26 AM »
Darker times at the GWB. 2002


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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Photos: Handicapped parkers
« on: May 30, 2011, 09:09:51 AM »
One of the most abused parking laws on the books. Anyone with a relative who has a portable tag seems to grab it for their use when they go shopping. 

I saw a guy in a baseball uniform come out of the Paramus Shop Rite with a case of beer...he ran to his car, equipped with a portable tag, parked in the Handicap area. No shame.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: That space-shuttle-from-a-plane viral photo
« on: May 20, 2011, 11:41:30 AM »
The picture taken from the plane has made such a stir I can't imagine why NASA has not taken any similar photos over the years. It is a unique picture with the shuttle breaking through the cloud cover but unless it's the first launch into a cloudy sky it does not seem that hard to be at the right place to get that shot considering NASA's resources. 


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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Photography...........the way I see it
« on: May 16, 2011, 08:40:59 AM »
thank you for the info.

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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Photography...........the way I see it
« on: May 14, 2011, 04:08:35 PM »
Great bridge construction shots, I would have liked to see them lifting the old bridge spans. I wonder what became of the old swing mechanism. Was there ever a hut for the bridge tender or was this an open by appointment only bridge?

I agree with your choice on the biker, a clear winner in that field.

On a second look at IMG_3051 that garbage bag looks like it has a pair of feet sticking up on the left side.

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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Photography...........the way I see it
« on: May 13, 2011, 09:49:05 PM »
the road to hell has to be a long bumpy trip...relying on the rear view image of a large helmet, some nice hair and a decent looking pair of leathers is a big role of the dice for such a tough trip :D

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Court St Bridge work on schedule
« on: May 13, 2011, 08:44:26 PM »
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.


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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Photography...........the way I see it
« on: May 13, 2011, 04:16:24 PM »
"All the bikes were Suzukis and all the plates said "Fairleigh Dickinson".... definitely not the local chapter of the Hell's Angels

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Court St Bridge work on schedule
« on: May 12, 2011, 04:05:41 PM »
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.

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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Photography...........the way I see it
« on: May 12, 2011, 03:45:16 PM »
A quote from your opening post in this interesting thread: "Questions/comments/discussion always welcome."...I hope that includes other photos.

My artistic wife hung some crystals in the East facing windows and I spent some time this morning chasing rainbows playing across our back room over usually mundane walls. Some of the rainbows contained silhouettes from the outside world others from interior items.  Quite a return on a couple of bucks worth of glass.



 




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Hackensack Discussion / Re: A crappy situation...
« on: May 12, 2011, 02:38:22 PM »
People who let their dogs take a dump and neglect to pick it up should always be in season for B-B guns and slingshots.

Years before the anti-poop laws I had a neighbor with a poodle he treated like a child who would regularly let her crap on my lawn where my kids played. When confronted he said it was only a small dog and he could not stop her once she started since it was not good for her.

My two boys came home with a stray German Shepard we had for about two weeks before we heard from it's owner. I walked that dog every night and made sure he left  a deposit in my neighbors driveway before we came home. Message received   ;D   

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Court St Bridge work on schedule
« on: May 12, 2011, 02:22:56 PM »
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.

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