Up the Stairs, Into the Fire

Up the Stairs, Into the Fire

Ground Zero, New York City

June 2006

Polo Grounds

Polo Grounds

Approximate Location

of Home Plate

Home of the

New York Giants

National Baseball League

1890-1957

World Champions

1904, 1905, 1921, 1922, 1934, 1954

The Giants Shared This Field

With the New York Yankees

1913 - 1922

The New York Mets Played Here

1962 - 1963

New York City

December 2024

The Lighthouse in the City

 

The Lighthouse in the City (it's sitting on a book)

Prime Storage (former H.W. Wilson, Publishing), Bronx, NYC

December 2024

Gotham View

Gotham View (in black and white)

NYC

April 2021

NYC from NJ

NYC from NJ

along the New Jersey Turnpike

April 2021

570 WMCA - New York

570 WMCA

New York, NY

April 2021

Ellis Island

Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty National Monument)

Hudson County, New Jersey

August 2000

Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year Parade

Chinatown, Manhattan, NYC

February 2010

Patriots Day 2018

-REMEMBER-

Patriots Day 2018

Freedom Tower

NYC (2012)

The Original Vincent's

The Original Vincent's

Established 1904

119 Mott Street, New York City

February 2014

Lombardi's Pizza

America's First Pizzeria: Lombardi's

Mott and Spring Street, Little Italy, NYC

February 2013

The More Things Change

This is  the ever changing Goldman Properties building on the corner of Houston Street and the Bowery in Manhattan, New York City. This exhibit has been evolving every couple/three or four months since 2008. I just happened to catch a few.

Liberty Cruise

Today's scans take us to New York City and a cruise out to Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty, August 2000. It was an overcast and windy August day. At this time, during the summer, they only allowed the first tour of the day to climb up into the crown. We were limited to the interior museum area. That is the original torch now on display inside, it was replaced during renovations prior to the 100th anniversary in 1986.

Miscellaneous Fire Apparatus 2014-5

Western Emergency Management Association, EMA 21-20
supporting the 7 municipalities of northwestern Cumberland County, Pa
1981 Ford F700 beverage truck

FDNY Squad 18, 2002 Seagrave
132 West 10th Street in the West Village of Manhattan, NYC

Engine 8, Memphis Fire Department
Stationed at 625 Mississippi Boulevard
shown here at the Fire Museum at 118 Adams Avenue

Collapse 53, Chester County Rescue Task Force

Fame Fire Company No. 3, West Chester Fire Department

 Special Operations Trailer

Fame Fire C0mpany No. 3, West Chester Fire Department

International Union of Operating Engineers, Juneau, Alaska

U. S. Custom and Border Protection, Field Operatoins Vehicle

Ketchikan, Alaska

2014 Header Review

It's time for my, now, annual look back at my website headers and give you a little back story...

• January 2014: The Anchor Drop on the Square in Shippensburg. 12:01 AM January 1, 2014.
• February 2014: Billboard advertisement along the Bowery in New York City.
• March 2014: Polar Vortex at the intersection of South Fayette Street and Mainsville Road on the outskirts of Shippensburg.
• April 2014: Snow Drops a sure sign of spring. In my backyard.
• May 2014: The famous fence row back behind my house.
• June 2014: Mountain Bluet at my Mother-in-law's house.
• July 2014: The Alaska Range in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
• August 2014: The rise of the Flying Purple People Eater at Skyfest 2014, Green Grove Gardens, Greencastle, Pa.
• September 2014: The American and Bridal Falls from the Niagara Falls, Ontario side.
• October 2014: Aspen leaves in the fall. Somewhere in central Colorado.
• November 2014: Sunrise on the last day of elk hunting the Flat Tops Wilderness Area of the White River National Forest, Colorado, October 2014.
• December 2014: Sheep Mountain Camp in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area of the White River National Forest, Colorado, October 2014.

261 Bowery, NYC

I think this is suppose to be Calvin and Hobbes meets Doonesbury. Maybe not. As seen along the Bowery in New York City.

One of These Days Alice...

"One of these days, Alice, POW! straight to the moon" Sure, it's been 60 years since Ralph Kramden said this to his wife Alice on the Honeymooners, but I saw a recent list of the top 25 sitcom one liners. This was No. 19.

The graffiti was found along a street in Lower Manhattan.

Patriots Day, year 13

Has it been 13 years? Can you believe it? Half of the kids in school have been born since 2001. (kindergarten through 7th or 8th grade) Do you think they are teaching them about that day? Do you think they are explaining how to avoid this happening again? Well, today I'll be thinking about those lost that morning and those who continue to see that it doesn't happen again. Thank you for your service. Remember that the war on terror didn't start with the attacks on the World Trade Center. Our troops had been on that front line for a long time before that and will forever need to fight that fight.

Year 8, Day 1

That's right another year is in the books. Seven years down and an eighth on the way. Last year was fun, saw some new things and did some old things again. There was a lot of bird pictures, the backyard feeders were hopping. Made another trip to see the eagles at Conowingo Dam and a first trip to see the snow geese and tundra swans at Middle Creek. The big trip took us to Nashville and Memphis. The Opry, Ryman and Graceland. Lots of live music and the Johnny Cash USPS stamp unveiling concert. Baseball in Louisville, Kentucky and the New York Mets Citi Field for the first time. Oriole Park again and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders at the Harrisburg Senators game. Chambersburg Ice Fest and NYC's Lunar New Year parade. More firehouses, more flowers, an forgotten farmhouse and a lighthouse. More to come this year and it's big, really big. Numbers? Last year there was 295 posts for a total all time of 2329. There was 27,497 page views on my blog, total all time of 105,500 page views. That means that 26 percent of all my page views came in my seventh year in the blog-o-sphere. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee

 John Carter Cash at the Ryman

 Keith Urban at the Grand Ole Opry

 Lee Brice outside of the Opry

 Nashville Skyline

American Pickers in Nashville

 Citi Field, Queens. New York City

  Sun Studio, Memphis

 Cody Canada and the Departed in Memphis

 Graceland

  Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore

 Rathaus Glockenspeil, Munich, Germany, 1985

 Immature Bald Eagle at Conowingo Dam, Maryland

 Concord Point Lighthouse, Harve de Grace, maryland

 Chambersburg Square during Ice Fest

 The Forgotten Farmhouse

 Year of the Horse, Chinatown, NYC

Snow Geese at Middle Creek

Engine No. 2, Cumberland Fire Department, Maryland

 Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders at Metro Bank Park, Harrisburg, Pa

 Louisville Slugger Field, Louisville, Kentucky