I have a lot of freeway construction photos I copied starting in the 50's , every freeway system in Houston I have watched while they were built, time and time again. The 45 south going to Galveston has never been really finished, they start new construction before the last one is even finished. There are or were 4 bridges spanning Galveston and the oldest is the train trestle which in the 1900's was the only way across unless you took a boat, it shared a train trestle and a horse and mule path. The first one to replace it was the drawbridge, then came the new modern bridge in the very early 60's and finally they now have another one that accommodates more vehicles in case of an evacuation due to hurricanes. I'll post them tomorrow
Took these all on the same day, the latter two from the top of the second tallest structure in the city.
Yeah I remember the weather there being a bit overcast, I shipped out of Fort Lewis in Jan 69 going back to my unit in RV after a Christmas leave.
I just copied this from wikipedia because I don't have any I've taken and Lafayette isn't the kind of place anyone would go out of their way to take a fancy picture of. Though Houston is more of my "hometown" than anywhere. Lived there the longest. So refer to Hal's picture.
I was in New York in the summer of 66, my unit was stationed at West Point for the entire summer, they had a training camp off main post that had a lake with a long wooden pier like you see in some movies. They re assigned me to the Artillery Unit that came with us for what ever reason I don't know, but I found myself living on top of the Provost Martial s Building, the visiting sports teams usually stayed there and the place was like a hotel compared to what we had at Campbell. Met this girl from Brooklyn and I spent my weekends with her and her family, her Dad was one of those old school Italian Attorneys and his big thing was his boat he kept at his long island summer house. I don't think I ever met anyone from New York that wasn't friendly to a soldier, if you were wearing your uniform anyone would stop and offer you a ride, one time my buddy and I were running late trying to get back to the Cardinal Spellmans USO club where our bus would pick us up, we were both broke no money so we couldn't take a bus and we were running down the blocks trying to get there, a local beat cop stopped us and ask why we were running so we told him and he stepped out in the middle of the street and flagged a bus and ask the bus driver to drop us off in front of the USO club. Today you would get arrested for vagrancy!
Uh, this is going to make me look so stereotypically English, but this is my skyline: (I didn't take this, ripped it from internet)
And this is the reverse view (you can see the church where the first photo was taken from). Hick little town http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwich_Spa
HA HA Last of the summer wine, that's really a pretty place. I guess most people aren't satisfied with where they live, I live in the country and getting very tired of it. The best place I lived through the years was in Nevada, very hot in the summer but dry no humidity, that compensates for the 115 temps. Then in the winter it hits about 16 overnight but by noon your outside tending the barbie and having a cold beer, around a nice pleasant 65. This photo is the Valley where I lived for 11 years, just off screen and over that mountain (Mt Charleston) to the right is Las Vegas, about 65 miles from the valley.
Best one I could find on google of our town's skyline. It's a state of a town anyways. I'm sure Dungeon Shaker will second this too. Irrational Game probably will seeing as she's from England. Burnley.
That photo has a lot of similarities to the Hudson River Valley at West Point, that is what it reminds me of!
