Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdp74t6 wrote on March 26, 2023 at 2:28 AM

Reply to comment by powerfulsquid in A Rickel Home Center location in Menlo Park, NJ sometime in the 1990s. Rickel was an early forerunner to Home Depot based in South Plainfield. Bulldozed for a Target. Photo from Flickr user Jeffrey Johnson featured on Facebook page Remembering Retail. by 7nationarmy

Two Guys

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdns6r4 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 8:01 PM

Reply to comment by Oxysept1 in Growing up in Morris county I always joked about the “telephone pole park” by lilacmacchiato

Like George Carlin said "The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time."

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdnf2ex wrote on March 25, 2023 at 6:27 PM

Reply to comment by taxi_drivr in A Rickel Home Center location in Menlo Park, NJ sometime in the 1990s. Rickel was an early forerunner to Home Depot based in South Plainfield. Bulldozed for a Target. Photo from Flickr user Jeffrey Johnson featured on Facebook page Remembering Retail. by 7nationarmy

I went to the Rickels in Randolph & Wayne a few times while they were closing. They were giving stuff away. Whole house, belt driven attic fan for $22. Gable attic fan for $5. Big boxes of nails, bolts, screws for .50 cents each.

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdndwwv wrote on March 25, 2023 at 6:19 PM

Reply to comment by oxysept11 in Growing up in Morris county I always joked about the “telephone pole park” by lilacmacchiato

Same. My dad had my brother and I seal the stockade fence ever few years. That was way before they found out it's linked to cancer (just like everything else!).

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmkd85 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 2:49 PM

Reply to comment by oxysept11 in Growing up in Morris county I always joked about the “telephone pole park” by lilacmacchiato

and slathered in rot-preventing chemicals, like Creosote

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmd658 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 1:53 PM

Reply to Growing up in Morris county I always joked about the “telephone pole park” by lilacmacchiato

They grow pretty slow. Same height since I first saw them in 1974. Not enough fertilizer.

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmcd01 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 1:46 PM

Reply to A Rickel Home Center location in Menlo Park, NJ sometime in the 1990s. Rickel was an early forerunner to Home Depot based in South Plainfield. Bulldozed for a Target. Photo from Flickr user Jeffrey Johnson featured on Facebook page Remembering Retail. by 7nationarmy

I remember when Home Depot moved in to our area, Channel Home Centers lost a lot of their business. Rickels then bought all the Channel locations. It seemed only a few months passed and Rickels had going out of business sales. It was sad that Godzilla stomped on the little guy.

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_ja9km60 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:09 PM

Reply to The year is 1972 and you are 44 years old. by Airsinner

before he shoots the melons

Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_j9ykwhn wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:52 PM

Reply to comment by Bodvarr in Is this a scam? It seems pretty suspicious. by Bodvarr

It's a two piece plastic whistle that you pierce through your furnace filter. When the filter becomes clogged, it forces more air through the plastic piece and makes an annoying whistle noise (most likely at 2:00 AM!).