CHANGES!
The center then and now...
First just a word about “presupositions” and names;
I remember the bace as it was when I was there, the years 1984 to 1987. And thus it is
natural for me to name the houses by the famililes who lived in them at the time. OK, so if you
lived there in an other time period all together, the names and houses are not going to mach!
Sorry, but I can’t explain it all!
I do not have the knowledge, nor the space to explain every single
change. But I hope to give you a taste and overview.
If you look closely, you see that some of the roads that were there
before are no longer used, and some have changed path all
together.
For instance if you come driving from “the car shed”, towards the
Kingsley’s house, the road used to take a right to continue towards
the track and past the Deming’s house. Now that road goes
straight! As far as I could tell Deming’s house is gone! At least I
could not find it.
In the tiny picture / icon to the left is a map depicting what I
tried to explain. Pleas click it to view the map!
This creates more space between the road and what used
to be the airstrip. New buildings are coming up there. One of them
is a new dining-hall. The old lake front dining-hall is still there, but
looking really old and run-down!
Surprisingly the stairs down to the lake, where we used to walk
down to go swimming, is no longer used. Or maybe not even there, because I could not find it. It is all grown over. From the lake
side the cement going out to the lake is visible as a small clear area in the middle of the under-brush. I observed that people going
to the lake to wash or swim, did so by using the lakeside front of what used to be the hangar.
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By the way… As a general rule for
this entire website I have made
almost all the pictures “Click-
able”, to show a larger version of
the picture. This web page is all
about presenting pictures of what
I saw. So I have tried to make the
pictures as large as possible.