Comments on: Mystery Housing Development

By: Bob Rogers

Bob Rogers — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:08:44 +0000

So many places own a piece of me I can’t keep up. I posted a piece on justice finally coming to The Killing Fields of Cambodia. Cambodia really moved me.

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:12:17 +0000

Bob,

I think it’s more a matter of a place owning you, than you owning a place.

By: Bob Rogers

Bob Rogers — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:58:18 +0000

I’m fascinated by all of your devotion to your home town. I love following Ken’s offerings, and your responses. I left my home town and never looked back. I’ve never been to a HS reunion, and only visit relatives and a very few old friends when I return. I think “The Cape” must just be a more special place than my hometown of St. Albans, WV, that and the fact that I must have been born to be a wanderer.

By following Ken’s hometown remembrances, I’m able to see how owning a place is very special for some people. Good on ya Ken!

By: Bill Stone

Bill Stone — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:44:04 +0000

Ken, the mystery picture is Oak Hills. If I had refreshed my screen I would have seen that Mark Stuart figured that out 50 hours ago! It appears that neighborhood was still under construction then. I used to cut thru Oak Hills instead of using Perryville Road and Bertling to get over Bertling hill. It does look shorter by air. In 1962, Mark Campbell lived at the top of the hill where BelAir and Oak Hills intersect. Our gang would occasionally play poker at Mark’s house. Good memories!

By: Keith Robinson

Keith Robinson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:34:58 +0000

Ken, the curve you see at the right end of the bridge is a curve in what the locals called the “Little Ditch”. It was separated from the Diversion Channel by a lower levee than the one on the south side of the Diversion Channel.
If you look at the left edge of the picture, just above center, you can see some white structures on the south side of MO-74. Those are the house and buildings on the Fred Robinson property.

By: Linda Stone Schrimsher

Linda Stone Schrimsher — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:09:29 +0000

Don’t you just love Google Earth! Last week we were roaming around in the San Juan Mtns above Durango trying to get over to the Telluride side of the divide. Got lost- bad, bad roads- sun was setting- so we did the unthinkable and backtracked. Next day I rode Google Earth for 2 hours to figure out the right route. Then the next day we packed heavy (coats, food, water) and started out again with my Google Earth research on elevations, turns, meadows, road names. So much fun.

By: Pam Stuart Gardner

Pam Stuart Gardner — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:25:28 +0000

Everyone loves a good mystery. Not surprised my brother figured it out. Really enjoy your postings.

By: Terry Hopkins

Terry Hopkins — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:49:37 +0000

Yes, that is Oak Hills and thsi must have be taken before our hosue was built in 1964…the empty (1624 Oak Hills Drive)lot is still there! that would be the forth house (lot) down on Oak Hills Drive…Ernie Shiles lived for a while on Oak Hills drive the second house…He was probably scouting for homes in your flight!
Nice work Dude…

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:39:14 +0000

Keith,

You’re right. I was close when I said Diversion Channel, but the RR bridge makes more sense. In the photo above, I see the curve before the bridge, a straight section and then a sharp curve.

The 25 highway bridge I thought it was goes straight after the bridge.

I may have to throw up some more mystery aerials since you solved these so quickly.

By: Jane McKeown Neumeyer

Jane McKeown Neumeyer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:18:24 +0000

You guys are amazing!