Mtn. View continues outreach to RV dwellers (California)

Los Altos Town Crier ^ | 3/14/18 | Bruce Barton

[Silentgypsy]

Actually, I went to SF once for a martial arts competition in the late nineties. Stayed at the Y located somewhere called the “Tenderloin.” Walked to the university where the event was held through neighborhoods with lots of places named after Malcom X and MLK (bus service was abysmal). Unfortunately not tech savvy. We do have a motor home but stopped driving extensively in 2012. Therefore, since we steer pretty well clear of California and SF in particular, I guess SV info would be wasted on me. Thanks, anyway!

[martin_fierro]

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[kearnyirish2]

Great pics and history; thank you! A friend that lived in northern California described hiking in the mountains and coming across a small stone marker indicating where a town with thousands of people had been during the gold rush, and now nothing at all remained. He said there were many places like that.

Along the NY/NJ border were settlements like this related to iron mining, furnaces, and forges; as the mines closed there was no need for the woodcutters that fuels the furnaces & forges, the small farms that fed the workers and draft animals, etc. - they all moved on (with small pockets remaining trying sustenance farming). Those areas are all state park land now, but you can still find the settlements by their stone foundations, old roads, and cemeteries.

[ßuddaßudd]

o my gosheses, that was one of the first places I went drinking at when I moved out here around ‘94 or so..
who could forget the 30’ tall wonder woman??

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Me, too. Bri gs back memories, huh? I lived across the street, so it was real “convenient.”

[martin_fierro]

OK, added

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My folks lived west of Philly and I used to visit the old iron works around there. Those mines you describe were instrumental in winning the Revolutionary War. A huge chain was strung across the Hudson to prevent the British from sailing up river to cut New England off from the southern colonies. The logistics of mining the ore, smelting the iron, fabricating the chain, transporting it and installing it are fascinating. Great book with more about the chain and iron works in:

Chaining the Hudson: The Fight for the River in the American Revolution by Lincoln Diamant.

[kearnyirish2]

I am familiar with the chains; IIRC they were draped across a string of rafts (so they wouldn’t sink). Fortunately the northernmost one (at West Point) was never breached. There seems to be a pissing match between ironworks up here as to where the chains were forged.

The success of those Hudson River defenses made the victory at Saratoga possible, and that battle signaled to France that we were worthy of support (in other words, that we could win).

[TADSLOS]

You would think an RV park would make money here...

Too many lefty environmental laws, zoning regulations and taxes for that now. Even if someone were allowed to build a new park, they would have to charge more than most with an RV would be willing to pay for a site in order for the owners to break even.

Liberals ruin everything they touch.

[ßuddaßudd]

I didn’t know it had burned down a few years later ,, thats too bad ..