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While blogging about Recipes That Time Forgot, I got sidetracked (as I often do) and started thinking about dusty old memories from the more cobwebby parts of my brain. I pieced together little bits of memories from 1983-1985. I'm thinking maybe I should do more of that.

So, my grandfather, Arnold Jorgensen, Sr., (born April 3, 1903, died May ? 1983), lived in Hartsdale, New York on Central Avenue (425 Central Avenue, White Plains, NY), site of the now-closed former Kentucky Fried Chicken. The two houses immediately east are the exact same model as their house was. He lived there with my grandmother, Johanna Jorgensen (born February 27, 1908, died February 27 1992). He was a cabinetmaker by trade.

They both moved to Beacon, NY some time before 1983 (I was 15). Mount Beacon Incline Railway was still operating when they lived there, because I remember we went on a trip up it once before it closed. The incline railway was destroyed by fire in 1983.

I remember we drove up Route 9D to get there to visit some weekends, going through the tunnel at Breakneck Mountain and passing Bannerman's Castle on the way up. Years later (from about 1987-1997), I would lead excursions out to the island by raft.