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UFOs in Hackensack would work...

Understood sir, no complaint implied just an explanation of my running off at the fingertips  .

The SX 130 is an excellent camera and would have been my choice if Canon had it available as part of the trade in program I used to buy the SX 120.

My previous Canon Power Shot 60 had a problem that Canon said would cost me $130. to repair. They also had an SX 120 refurbished for the same price so I opted for that. Canon has a decent support system, they took the Power Shot back and repaired a color problem that they announced on their website as a recall after I had owned the camera a few years. 

My only complaint with the 120 is it's lack of a viewfinder since using the screen in bright sun light is difficult at times. 

Excellent photos. Welcome to the digital photography world.
I have been a photography buff for many years going back to developing and enlarging black and white film and thinking that cropping and pushing the film's ASA rating were the ultimate weapons available to the amateur.
May I ask what camera you bought? It seems to have an excellent zoom ratio and the clarity is great. Are you using a tripod for the long shots or are you blessed with amazing stability?
I bought my first digital camera in 1997. A Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 that stored about 20 photos on a 3.5" Floppy Disk and had a very good ten times zoom that was a nice feature.
I have gone through a few since then and presently use a Canon Power shot SX 120 that does a decent job and fits in a back pocket instead of a shoulder bag, a feature that has become my biggest priority.
I enjoy using a couple of free sites for editing and resizing and have a copy of an older Photoshop program that is far too powerful and complicated for my needs. Photoshop offers a trimmed down version at a more reasonable cost and I was about to buy it when I came across this on line editor which works well. http://pixlr.com/. Another is Irfanview  http://www.irfanview.com/

Thanks for the info. The pool I was asking about is definitely the one shown on the post card. My memory of it is probably from about 1950 or so. Does anyone know what years it was in operation?

There is another reference to the history of Johnson Park in this link and if anyone here is a NY Times subscriber you can read the entire article.
http://tinyurl.com/499lv4u

In 1963-64 I worked for NJ Bell and our line crew was wiring the original Two Guys as it was being built. The place impressed me in that it was so big I watched a carpenter hammering at one end while I was at the other and there was a delay before I heard the sound. A big space.

Google provided a link to a Facebook forum that had a discussion about Frankie's Market http://tinyurl.com/4lukfwq

Some interesting info and opinions on the cause of the fire and the activities going on in Frankie's.

Google is what brought me to your interesting site. I was looking for some information on The Ivy House after the Record ran a story about a restaurant planning to have an evening of serving meals in the dark. Naturally I thought of The Ivy and it lead me to your discussion of Hackensack bars and restaurants.

you are providing National Geo quality pictures of your subject..great stuff.

We have seen "our hawk" dive down and take a dove in an explosion of feathers close to the back door, one second he was there and then it was just a few feathers indicating something had happened. Another time one of them grabbed a squirrel and held it in it's talons until it was dead, he then did a series of short flights to get it to the nest since the squirrel was probably equal to the body weight of the hawk.