I went for a fine ride on the bike to my favorite restaurant but, they still closed for renovations.... Nice ride anyway. I got my grass mowed too! Cannonsville is at 45%. Water supply for NYC. The last of the reservoirs they built. Finished in 1963 The town of Cannonsville is under there and was my hometown to the age of 7. Where I am stopped for this photo is the ramp they put in to access the town from the new highway before they destroyed the town. Now it is boat access. The original route 10 is under water. Still there.
it is basically the foothills of the Catskills on the eastern side of them. The Catskills separate me from NYC. I love the mountains. Nice twisty roads there.
Here is from 2001 when it dropped radically. That is main street (hwy 10) thru town. Church Street joins to main on the right. The bridge abutment is still there. Crossed that bridge to get home.
Looking across the bridge towards the area where I was parked. Last "Old Home Days"1957 You can see the new highway in the distance. Sorry for the posts but, I love the old history especially when it applies to me. I used to tell everybody in Minnesota that I am a "NY Hillbilly".
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" applied here. They were not kind... The people up here have a nickname for the DEP...."Fish Police" You need a special permit to fish there now.
One last photo from about 1957 or so from an airplane surveying. The creamery is in the foreground. This was all farmland.
John Prine knows what I speak of. He lived in W Virginia and the same thing happened there. "And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
