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Not so much anymore. That really changed from the late 70s onward with tremendous development of suburbs and very little protection. The word “open space” hadn’
by TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
Not so much anymore. That really changed from the late 70s onward with tremendous development of suburbs and very little protection. The word “open space” hadn’t enter the collective conscious yet.
The drive east/west between Philadelphia and Atlantic City before the Atlantic City Expressway was mostly all farm, pine forest, and farm stands. The pine forests are still there (the ones that were state forests, anyway), but not the farms and not the pine forests that were on private land.
- sparcpile 5y agoUS-40 from I-95 to Atlantic City is still very rural. When I lived in the DC area, I would take US-40 from I-95 to go the FAA's Technical Center at the Atlantic City airport because it was nicer drive and you get to see interesting sites. Among them: 1. The Cowtown Rodeo in Woodstown, NJ with the giant cowboy statue at the cowboy supply store across the street. 2. An ancient Radio Shack store 3. Many road-side fruit and lunch stands. 4. A car repair shop with a painted stack of tires. 5. A store named 'Ted's Taxidermy' across the street from an airpark in Buena, NJ. (edited for formatting)
- reaperducer 5y agoThe word “open space” hadn’t enter the collective conscious yet. I guess you've never heard of the Pine Barrens — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Barrens_(New_Jersey) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Barrens_(New_Jersey) 1,100,000 acres of forested land, most of it preserved by the federal government for emergency use. In the event of a catastrophe, it contains 17,000,000,000,000 (that's 17 trillion, with a "T") gallons of the most pure water in the nation.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoI know them very well. And they were never called "open space". They were called state forests.