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Scenes from Pennsylvania last September . . .

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Nuts About Coconuts !

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It happens once in a blue moon while out roaming about, that one sees a place that one would just love to learn more about, especially in terms of cultural enrichment and enlightenment. I had such an experience in a small central Pennsylvania city recently. The sign which caught my eye because of the colorful parrot on it announced a "Party In Paradise". What could there be not to love about a place proclaiming in colorful terms that a party in paradise can be found there ??? Yes indeed, Club Coconuts sounded dandy to me ! And I swear that parrot looks exactly like the one on the cover of Tom Robbins' excellent book "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates".
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Another sign outside Club Coconuts boldly declared that this was a No Work Zone ! Yes ! My kind of place ! And I just adore the little bi-plane pulling the Club Coconuts banner sign in this one.
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Club Coconuts even apparently had people standing by to dance with me. I would have enjoyed a bit of square dancing, you know, swing your partner round and round, do-ci-do, and all that, with sawdust on the floor, but I just couldn't, unfortunately, wait around until 8 o'clock to see what that was all about. Life is cruel sometimes, I'm sure it would have been good healthy fun. Maybe next time. (Cue the Tom Waits music as he drives away wistfully.)
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Now I can't say for sure, but this establishment was just up the street from Coconuts, so I can only imagine that some of Coconuts customers must work in here, after a tough day slinging rusty scrap steel, Coconuts is probably a good place to go for a beer and to unwind dancing.
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Some Fall colors were just starting to come out in this next landscape . . .
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Three Mile Abandon. . .

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, for nearly the entire year of 1988. On weekends I loved to get out and ramble around the countryside, and made several day trips to the Susquehanna River valley area. You may recall that back in 1979 the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island experienced a major problem, not quite perhaps on the scale of Tchernobyl, but all sources seem to agree that there was a serious release of radioactive matter into the atmosphere. Just how bad ? Who knows, the debate apparently is not closed. What I do know, is that wandering around the area to the east of Three Mile Island in 1988, I was surprised at the number of abandoned houses all over the region. Some that I visited looked like people had left in a big hurry, leaving clothes in closets and canned or bottled food in cupboards and cellars. Some were literally falling down. Here are two examples. . . what a strange world we live in. . .

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Dream Cars Reprise !

The timing of the story coming in today from Jalopnik.com, mentioned in the post just below this one, was perfect, as I just got another small batch of photos back from the lab this evening. . . more of the 4000 negatives that I never got around to printing over the years. And they are full of wonderful surprises. . . well, wonderful for me, the certifiably demented dreamer of dream cars and dream houses putting this blog together for your perusing, carousing pleasure. . . Only another 3600 or so left to go !

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These three beauties were photographed in Central Pennsylvania in 1988 while I was out one day rambling around in the woods not far from my dream house. . .

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