Pete S wrote: > The photo was taken in may 1970. There is a small park just > north of campus and south of Maxwell House coffee that > overlooked the HBS float bridge there. The park is called Elysian Park (the whole area used to be known as Elysian Fields, where the first baseball game was played). As a graduate of Stevens Tech (located right next door), I remember waking up smelling the coffee in the mornings, and remembering that giant Maxwell House "Good to the Last Drop" coffee cup neon sign. <sigh> > If you search Google > Earth for Hoboken and follow Frank Sinatra Drive north you > can still see where the float bridge was. There is still a > barge there with some kind of crane on it! Even better, there is a former EL barge there! (number "0" - odd number, but that's what it's painted as) It's owned by the shipyard there, but the folks there are really paranoid of photographers (trust me, I speak from experience), so you have to try and shoot it through the fence from the street. Here's the shot I was able to get of it: http://el-list.elhts.org/archives/elbarge.jpg - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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