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They were good panels. Still a bunch in Mesa near Bass Pro.

I would have tossed it and not even opened it.

I installed the electrical for pools when I moved here in the 70's on a lot of his homes. I think they went for $30K new. 100 amp Cutler Hammer panels. The breakers would just fall out when I removed he dead front. Still, he made a lot of people homeowners. By the time I got here Maryvale was a very rough place to live.

Yeah when most people hear New York they think of subways and skyscrapers. Long Island was largely agriculture and you would be hard pressed to find better soil conditions and with close to 40" of rain it stands to reason why there were so many potato farms. In 1947 a guy named William Levitt carved out 20 square miles and changed home building forever when he built Levittown. Those first houses were basically built in an assembly line onsite complete with radiant floor heating, many of those homes still have it in them today. They also came furnished with washers and dryers, not bad for $8,000. Today just the taxes on an original home are more than that a year with many people adding extensions and such in todays market many of those homes are sold for 40 times that amount with yearly property taxes of $12K or more. Newly married GI's eager to have a house would stand in line over night to get one. Not only were there homes built but also areas known as "Greens" where a row of stores were built along with a public pool open only to Levittown residents. Each spring pool tags were, and still are, mailed out and you have to wear it to get in. Basically a round metal ID Tag on a small bungee that you wear around the wrist or ankle. Crime rates were and still are some of the lowest in the nation but the cost of living now is high much due to high taxes but teachers are paid very well. I grew up in a neighboring town without access to a public pool but most people had above ground pools since back then most familes had from three to ten kids. If you drove down my street there would be 50 kids outside playing as our parents always told us to go out and play, just be home at 5 for dinner and after dinner when the street lights came on we had to be home too. Houses were never locked up and some people left the keys in the ignition. For 25 cents I could ride the public buss to Jones Beach which was about six miles away. We didn't have mountains on LI but the Catskills were just a couple hour car ride.

So did we. I grew up on the South Shore of LI and caught quite a few growing up there. I spent most of my time after school, weekends and nearly every day in the summer either fishing, clamming or at the beach. We had five kids and Mom didn't work or drive when I grew up. Dad worked at Grumman during the week and worked at the Deli or the Paint Store on Saturday and everything was closed on Sunday except bakeries. There were no size restrictions or limits back then except for Fluke and Stripers so I kept most everything and my grandmother would show me how to clean and cook the fish, eels, crabs and shellfish. We rarely had to buy bait and always brought home some fish for dinner. My earliest recollection of fishing was out of a rowboat with my father and grandfather catching flounder in the Sound where my grandfathers brother had an old house right on the water. I was three or maybe four and could barely crank the reel. https://www.edibleeastend.com/2018/04/17/blowfish-long-island/#

There are a lot of types of puffers from ones sold in the tropical fish trade that only get a little bigger than an inch to giant ones in the wild that get to over three feet. We caught a lot of them in the summer on the east coast using sand worms and squid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_puffer We would clean them and remove the skin then flour them and fry in a pan with bacon grease. They taste a bit like Walleye, the meat is very firm and white. I have seen a few turn up in shrimp nets as bycatch and in the early 2000's while in Rocky Point, they were selling them in the fish market calling them "chicken fish".

You kinda lost me on this one. WTH happened to hunting Barbary Sheep?

No, but the idea of having the ability to go from 10X to 15X in a single binocular is pretty cool. I have tried to hand hold 15's when I had them and by the time my eyes focus on something in the distance within a few seconds I have trouble staying on it because I can't hold it steady enough. I have 10X EL's and while not as bad if I am going to do any serious glassing they immediately go on my tripod. Outdoorsmans in Fountain Hills has Leicas so you might want to take a ride over there and check them out. They are across from the lake so you could stand outside and easily see 600 yards across the lake and they should be able to put them on a tripod so you can see the difference and how much less stable the view is when you handhold them.

That is a nice looking trailer.

Too rich for my blood. I'm good.

Yes. I one installed in some EL's a couple of years ago. https://outdoorsmans.com/collections/all/products/outdoorsmans-swarovski-binocular-stud-2

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I passed by this on my way to work this morning. This is pretty serious and it could mean the bridge being out for six months. If it's an oil spill the cleanup will be a mess and potentially affect the lake too. https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/fire-breaks-out-after-train-derailment-bridge-collapse-over-tempe-town-lake

Early 80's?

These "sales" have been going on from State to State for months.

The rifle new probably sold in the neighborhood of 450 and the scope, well almost that much. We all know how much three boxes of ammo are worth. It would have made a great donor action for my PRC build. LOL

Tomorrow give Doug at CamerlandNY a call. He is a Swarvo dealer and has been in the business for four decades and knows everyone in the Biz.

I remember driving through there and feeling a bit pissed when I first saw it.

That's great, I think second day is perfect. On day to relax and a day to get serious and get it done before boredom and anxiety set in. That area looks the place when I took my kind on their Doe hunt in 99. I also saw some Elk in there too.

We need all kinds of habitat for sure. I just would like to see any clearing done without leaving all the branches left scattered like what was done decades ago in 23 a few miles from the airstrip west of Young.

Well it's a cheap round to buy. It's not a 1000 yard gun.

Just don't shake hands with Riley his shop foreman. You'll loose all circulation for a few hours.

Plenty of affordable places in OK and TX. Waco is a place to look at if you want to stay in the west. TX is flat but the farther south you go there is the gulf if you like to fish for anything other than LG Bass, which taste like a mouth full of dirt.

This ain't Craigs List. Post some pictures and a price. Then post it in the Classifieds section.

Transmissions Done Right. Justin Norpel 1842 E 3rd St in Tempe 480-232-7709 He does a lot of 4X4's, jeeps, F-250 etc.