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11-21-2020, 04:42 PM #1576
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11-21-2020, 06:12 PM #1577
Thank you for asking what we were all wondering.
I still call it The Jake.
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11-21-2020, 07:09 PM #1578
state fair is a whole ‘nother levels of the upstate experience....
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11-21-2020, 07:32 PM #1579
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11-21-2020, 07:42 PM #1580
Nothing like Lynrd Skynrd at the NY state fair on mushrooms in the 80’s...
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11-21-2020, 07:55 PM #1581
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11-21-2020, 08:09 PM #1582
The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread
My favorite upstate NY festival of all time: Norwich Sauerkraut festival. Sadly it no longer exists. The Norwich sauerkraut factory closed in 2008. Now, this is not to be confused by the big city sauerkraut festival in Phelps. Norwich festival is a bit smaller.
I think you all would have really liked it.
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11-21-2020, 08:36 PM #1583man of ice
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I give you North Norwich NY: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6055...7i13312!8i6656
Looks kinda gloomy.
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11-21-2020, 08:39 PM #1584
Which calls for a shout out for upstate music history cred. Of course, host to the seminal and some will argue the most famous of music festivals, Woodstock, but then host to what some consider the largest gathering of humans in one place in history, (Whoa, doood!) the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen. Dude.
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11-21-2020, 08:43 PM #1585
Didn’t someone here post old timey pics of a fair where they had a peeler booth? Seems Upstate enough.
At least Erie enough, that’s for sure.I still call it The Jake.
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11-21-2020, 08:46 PM #1586
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11-21-2020, 09:12 PM #1587
Hypnotic Clambake were a bunch of fun.
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11-21-2020, 09:18 PM #1588man of ice
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Don't forget to buy your dog a ticket.
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11-21-2020, 09:47 PM #1589
yeah, they had more rules by then.... t'weren't allways that ways. bit more laid back, back when.
some tutorials on rooney mountain in the upstates....
that's hows its done. i tell you what.Last edited by m2711c; 11-22-2020 at 09:06 PM.
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11-21-2020, 09:47 PM #1590
My entry for the land-that-time-forgot award. My family used to rent a cabin on a tiny little lake there when I was a kid. I got to show my wife and kids around when we went to a baseball tournament in Cooperstown two summers ago. The town hasn’t changed at all since I was a kid, except that they added tons of seasonal camping spots at the lake. Which doesn’t help the ambiance but it is pretty upstate of them.
There are two businesses in town, this place, Bob’s Corner Store, and a small restaurant that’s closed most of the time. Once I was a teenager I got my parents to let me bring my bike so I could ride it down to Bob’s and buy cheap candy and snappers there.
This is the dam that held the lake in. We used to go down there and flip over ricks to catch frogs and crawfish. I brought a bucket of crawfish home once but I couldn’t convince my mom to cook them. One night I was just wandering around outside after dark and I heard squealing tires a huge crash down there, breaking tree branches etc... My sister went to get my dad and I ran down the road, pretty much to the same spot I took this pic from. There was a car sitting down there, right in the middle of the stream, like he meant to park it there, headlights still on. My dad reached me just as the driver stepped out. The guy turns around, sees us standing up on the road and says, “What are you looking at?”
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11-22-2020, 05:17 AM #1591Registered User
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11-22-2020, 09:37 AM #1592
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11-22-2020, 11:44 AM #1593man of ice
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11-22-2020, 11:49 AM #1594
Weird. It's only dark for 1/2 mile.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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11-22-2020, 11:51 AM #1595man of ice
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huh I didn't go down the road that's where I landed when I went to look around. Weird.
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11-22-2020, 12:00 PM #1596
The ominous car coming at you in the dark is a nice touch.
I still call it The Jake.
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11-22-2020, 12:04 PM #1597
Lake Effect darkness?
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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11-22-2020, 12:15 PM #1598
It’s a real thing. From October through March it gets dark at 3:30.
I still call it The Jake.
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11-22-2020, 12:19 PM #1599
But the darkness in your soul begins at 6:00 AM.
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11-25-2020, 08:53 AM #1600
45 years ago - Frampton came alive in Plattsburgh.
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