Wckd Queen
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Ok, its not just me. I saw this and then thought twice about posting about it! :lol:
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Ok, its not just me. I saw this and then thought twice about posting about it! :lol:
Wckd Queen
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Sometimes, I have NO idea where I am! :lol:
Actually, my house is about halfway between the southern most tip of NY (where it looks like its going to touch Long Island) and the southern most tip of CT. Right on the Long Island Sound line. Im right near Rye Playland (my Grandmothers house was right across the street!) and not far from Greenwich CT.
Never really realized just how big NY state really is!
Wckd Queen
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Originally posted by tigsmom
Try driving across it!
Drove from Queesn Village (on the Nassau border by Elmont and Belmont Racetrack) to Syracuse to take my brother to college. Seemed like we drove for days!
I haven't been to Rye Playland since I was a kid!
We drove to Montreal, Canada last summer. Drove for 6 hours in the SAME STATE! I'll tell ya, up that far, NY state doesnt even look like the NY state that I know!
Im going to Rye Playland Thursday night. It's the 75th anniversary and they are having a concert series. Thursday is Cyndi Lauper. Quite a blast from the past
wdwhoneymooner
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Originally posted by Wckd Queen
Im going to Rye Playland Thursday night. It's the 75th anniversary and they are having a concert series. Thursday is Cyndi Lauper. Quite a blast from the past
Is Rye Playland the same park in the Tom Hanks movie Big? I think this is the place my Wife keeps raving about (She's from Rye Brook).
tigsmom
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Let me know if she sings True Colors and Girls Just Want to Have Fun (cause we do:lol: ).
Drove from our house to Lake Placid, then Plattsburgh (DH went there) and back again. Like living in different worlds. We encountered ice in June one year and 20 degree weather in August. Got to love the mountains! But the scenery is to die for, esp in the Fall. (no leaves above Albany one year for Columbus Day.) Can you tell I like to travel?)
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Drove from our house to Lake Placid, then Plattsburgh (DH went there) and back again. Like living in different worlds. We encountered ice in June one year and 20 degree weather in August. Got to love the mountains! But the scenery is to die for, esp in the Fall. (no leaves above Albany one year for Columbus Day.) Can you tell I like to travel?)
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Wckd Queen
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Thats the one! The boardwalk scenes where the Zoltar machine is were filmed there, as was the amusement park scene!
Its been in quite a few movies. You can also see Glenn Close riding the Dragon Coaster in Fatal Attraction. When I was in high school, we watched them filming a movie with Nick Nolte and Katherine Hepburn down there. I dont think it was ever released though. Its very picturesque, being right on the Sound and being as old as it is. Its also a National Historic Landmark and one of only 2 amusement parks owned by the government (county of Westchester owns it).
Let me see if I can find a link...
wdwhoneymooner
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Cool, Thanks! She's always reliving her youth by telling me stories about this place. Sounds like a nice, family oriented park.
Wckd Queen
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Found it! Now, please bear with my while I figure out how to post a link! :lol:
www.ryeplayland.org
(ah..forget the link...here's the web addy :lol: )
www.ryeplayland.org
(ah..forget the link...here's the web addy :lol: )
tigsmom
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We used to go on School trips there. (when I lived in the city)
Here they take you to an IMAX movie! Or the Bronx Zoo...I've got more animals living in my yard!!! (there is a bear in town again.)
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2003/08/19/cambear.htm
(this is in a neighboring town...Whoopie Goldberg lives in Tuxedo Park...birthplace of...........you guessed it..........the Tuxedo!
Here they take you to an IMAX movie! Or the Bronx Zoo...I've got more animals living in my yard!!! (there is a bear in town again.)
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2003/08/19/cambear.htm
(this is in a neighboring town...Whoopie Goldberg lives in Tuxedo Park...birthplace of...........you guessed it..........the Tuxedo!
Wckd Queen
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Isnt this up where Sterling Forrest used to be? (or still is?
) Dont they still have the Reinaissance Faire there? I havent been to that since high school. My friend and I couldnt wait to leave :lol:That site is the Middletown Times Herald Record. I deal with them at work. You're not THAT far removed from civilization, tigsmom
tigsmom
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Sterling Forrest is about 5 mins from my house and the Ren Fest is up and running right now.
This is commuter country, but I live at the edge of the woods and we have all sorts of wildlife ...just about 200 feet or so from the lake's edge. The bears carried our garbage cans into the woods, the deer bring the fawns to feed on my flowers, and the skunks nest under my porch.
This is commuter country, but I live at the edge of the woods and we have all sorts of wildlife ...just about 200 feet or so from the lake's edge. The bears carried our garbage cans into the woods, the deer bring the fawns to feed on my flowers, and the skunks nest under my porch.