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When I was writing, I researched the navigational charts for NYC harbor in 1718. There were dozens of oyster beds marked.
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The Thames river in London is back alive too and there is lot's of wild life in the river now and no industry dumping into it for many years. Most of the polluted rivers and streams in post industrial Britain have recovered in recent years.
 
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DIY-HP-LED said:
The Thames river in London is back alive too and there is lot's of wild life in the river now and no industry dumping into it for many years. Most of the polluted rivers and streams in post industrial Britain have recovered in recent years.
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I wonder what Niagara is like now. I visited as a kid 50 years ago. One of my biggest memories was the smell. It was this strange thick cloyingly sweet stink from the polluted water, and it smothered the park like a soaked blanket. It was strong enough to make me sometimes want to retch.
 
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I wonder what Niagara is like now. I visited as a kid 50 years ago. One of my biggest memories was the smell. It was this strange thick cloyingly sweet stink from the polluted water, and it smothered the park like a soaked blanket. It was strong enough to make me sometimes want to retch.
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Probably improved greatly, most of the industries who were polluting the lakes on both sides of the border are gone now and have been for awhile.
 
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Don't Bogart

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CatHedral said:
I wonder what Niagara is like now.
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I was there in '14.
9 days.
In hind sight I didn't notice anything. Smell or otherwise. I was on the Canadian side which at the time, I was told, was the safer side.
Did all the major stuff. The boat. The butterfly house. Bird house. Behind the falls. Videoed most everything. Even the Maid of the mist. I wrapped my camera in saran wrap. Tight over the lens. Girls screaming. Can't have a great movie w/o girls screaming.
I went to the hydro power plant. We went down 350+ feet to where the turbines were.
Having a back round in machining when I saw the lathe down there....WOW! Huge. From my perspective it had to be a 15' foot dia.
Boy did I want to play with that!!
 
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Don't Bogart said:
I was there in '14.
9 days.
In hind sight I didn't notice anything. Smell or otherwise. I was on the Canadian side which at the time, I was told, was the safer side.
Did all the major stuff. The boat. The butterfly house. Bird house. Behind the falls. Videoed most everything. Even the Maid of the mist. I wrapped my camera in saran wrap. Tight over the lens. Girls screaming. Can't have a great movie w/o girls screaming.
I went to the hydro power plant. We went down 350+ feet to where the turbines were.
Having a back round in machining when I saw the lathe down there....WOW! Huge. From my perspective it had to be a 15' foot dia.
Boy did I want to play with that!!
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Was it Canadians who told you it was safer there? :bigjoint:

That lathe sounds cool. I remember wonderful tools in the Smithsonian before some (snarl) humanities major decided to get rid of all the boring machines and replace them with pop culture.

The Smithsonian should have simply opened a new Museum of Currently Popular Garbage and allowed me to continue to caress stellarators, Jacquard looms and supercritical steam locomotives.
 
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Not really a happy thing but if anyone was thinking of getting rid of a problem, beware.


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CunningCanuk said:
Did somebody say Texas?

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Fond memories of Texas from the early 90s - happy to have been there. I was in Richardson, TX for some fibre optic transmission training along with a couple other Canadians. On the first day the instructor asked what the difference was between us. Sense of humour, I quipped! His stoic/rigid appearance was unfazed, somewhat validating my notion. He was kind, hospitable and took us for some terrific BBQ.

Between classes, I attended the grassy knoll, millionaires club (against my wishes) and the world's largest bar. My travelling companions had me run a few stop signs as they were frightful of the neighborhood I'd ventured into one afternoon. Tijuana would definitely have been out of their comfort zone.
 
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Ozumoz66 said:
Fond memories of Texas from the early 90s - happy to have been there. I was in Richardson, TX for some fibre optic transmission training along with a couple other Canadians. On the first day the instructor asked what the difference was between us. Sense of humour, I quipped! His stoic/rigid appearance was unfazed, somewhat validating my notion. He was kind, hospitable and took us for some terrific BBQ.

Between classes, I attended the grassy knoll, millionaires club (against my wishes) and the world's largest bar. My travelling companions had me run a few stop signs as they were frightful of the neighborhood I'd ventured into one afternoon. Tijuana would definitely have been out of their comfort zone.
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I met some great people in the DFW area. The first time I had catfish was in Texas and I’ve been kicking myself ever since that I didn’t try it sooner.
 
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