Speaking of something other than myself that's old. I have started to play with my photo manipulation gremlins again. These are the guys and girls living under the bridges along the river walk. Genius is not a fair description of these trolls!
The original photo was taken years ago in a place in time called----Way back! The general store in a little town called Oldwick, New Jersey. Just down the street from the Tewksbury Hotel where they served the greatest greasy cheeseburgers you could imagine. I remember those burgers after a cold morning for hunting with my lifelong friend, dentist and bon vivant. God they were good.
This is the light room atop the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, NJ.
The shoals of Absecon and Brigantine had to be marked by a light of some sort in the early 1800’s when Atlantic City was but a small ocean side village. The Lighthouse was first authorized in 1837 but not built and lit until 1857. Built by the active Lt. George G. Meade of civil war fame, the tower was erected on a stone foundation, which rested on a wooden platform. The structure rose 150 feet and was fitted with a first order Fresnel lens as was befitting a coast line light house.
Shipwrecks had been many along that coast on the aforementioned shoals, but after it’s construction the incidents of wrecks in the first months became nil. In 1872 the tower was white with a red band around the middle but in the latter part of that century, the light was painted orange with a black middle band. Until 1998 tower was white and red. It has been since painted a light yellow with a black band. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1932 and was turned over to the state. It is now the centerpiece of a town park.
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