this WAS Rye bridge, Mama took these photos in 2003, I wasn't born then, but Mama knew how to time travel me back to when she took these photos.
Mama enjoyed the walking along the river while Daddy flew his electric plane with his friends. they flew in a huge cow pasture that his club used for free with permission. Mama took her EasyShare Kodak, 3 MP camera and for hours wandered in nature taking photos.
It is all gone now, bulldozed, including the bridge that Mama's mama used to jump off of when she was a teen in 1938, the bridge had been there since 1886, the village of Rye.
Developers tore down the bridge and bulldozed all of it, trees and paths and pastures and put a 4-lane highway through it, and a huge bridge.
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| Baby Long Horn |
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| Mama Longhorn |
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Daddy Longhorn |
The church Mama and Daddy went to was 10 miles from home. In fact the Church was passed by mama when she went for a ride with her cousin to her cousin's new house.
Instead of pastures and trees and Baby Longhorn and his parents and all their herds, she found this.
each of the four corners were crammed with buildings. The Long horns that lived on the top left in pasture were gone, and the other four corners were swamps and trees and pastures were DEVELOPED.
Above is now the road that goes to the Fort Hamer Bridge, which is really close to the new Rye Bridge. All the beautiful nature at the beginning is now gone.
We are sad for the Nature that is not nature anymore.
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| every small tributary they put as many houses as they could fit to make it country club living on waterfront. Ha on the waterfront. |
