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Wow just amazing! The colors are beyond beatuiful.

I see a wallpaper request...by minktail and rotten... sounds like a AWESOME idea..

Howie -- there was a fire at the Pines in April 2006? Do you have any more info about this?

Hi Dunny, I never saw the USS Holder by name but there was an ex Navy boat they cut up in the early 70s that was perhaps DD or DE size, it was painted blue or had a blue tint to it. If that was it then it was definately cut up. I have pictures of it being cut up but you cant tell what it was, I figured it as another sub chaser.

those nurses look like they're kind of in the way.

By the way, the third boat in this photo, on the left, is the fire boat ABRAM S. HEWITT built in 1903. She was a coal burner with reciprocating fire pumps. She operated most of her life out of the fire boat house near Fulton Street, Brooklyn

FIRE FIGHTER, is 138 feet long ans still in service, built on Staten Island in 1938. Pumped 20,000 Gallons per minute and powered by two Winton/Cleveland 16-248 diesels each putting out 1500 horse power and driving three generators that provided electric power for the electric propulsion motors and electric motors for the fire pumps. The "Fighter" though a senior citizen, always seemed to know when it was needed, she pumped for something like 11 days and nights at the World Trade Center. Most of the water used there for firefighting was supplied by the fire boats as the city water mains were destroyed when the buildings came down. Most large waterfront fires over the past 69 years would find the "Fighter" there slugging it out with the fire enemy! What a well designed and dependable vessel.

Whilst I appreciate that you "credit" my site as the source of these images, and they are indeed quite evocative. It might have nice to have been asked in the first place. Still, you have given due credit and the comments are very interesting. Still - it would have been nice . . . Thanks.

on the right sidw behind the glass above the name howdy,there is a hand and a sleeve,the hand is extended out and the fingers are open pointing towards the left the left! do you see it?

the day the music died

Ouroboris, I agree...who would need a soap dispenser in the middle of a hallway? (lol)

Lynne... pirate dance?

Hahahhahahah, omg THAT is priceless!
I wonder if by some extraordinary circumstance the cop that had that car stopped by your site and saw his cruiser!
Probably not, but that would be pretty funny.

I agree with Kathryn, very creepy, and very cool.

Aren't we ALL just severly retarded adults?

That is an amazing shot! The color is marvelous!