Cole Palen's Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

Aerodrome Kid · 26 May 2009, 08:58 AM

yeah, thats me in front of the D-25 put away for the night. Mom and Dad did not meet at ORA, but rather in KY in the 60's where they grew up as teenagers. They moved to Rhinebeck for dad to take the job at ORA in '78, the same year I was born.

Mom took the role of Trudy in the early 80's once Nate and I were able to fend for ourselves on the airport grounds, although we had a large support network their with Rita, Marion and all the other folks generally watching out for us. Nate and I used to spend a large portion of the show up in the tower with Jim, often times getting stuck up there when the Black Baron would steal the ladder.

AAC Cadet Leader · 26 May 2009, 09:03 AM

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Nate and I used to spend a large portion of the show up in the tower with Jim, often times getting stuck up there when the Black Baron would steal the ladder.

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Aerodrome Kid · 26 May 2009, 09:17 AM

In the interest of fair consideration, I should mention that I think the first three pics I posted, the ones of Trudy in the hotel, with Percy after the pickup, and during the bomb raid, are all Earl Hall prints I believe, given to my parents and held in our collection of photos. The rest are from unknown/amateur origin, mostly taken by my Mom.

airknocker · 26 May 2009, 10:00 PM

Love your family photos. Suggest you contribute them to Cole Palen.com

tazbat · 28 May 2009, 06:42 PM

AAC Cadet Leader, thanks for starting this thread. Have you considered having it made into a documentary of Cole and his Aerodrome?

Salute!

AAC Cadet Leader · 29 May 2009, 05:56 AM

tazbat. thanks. yes, the thought occurred to me years ago near the start of the thread, but i've no idea how to accomplish that and bet it's a whole lot more complicated than it would appear...

ONEALM · 29 May 2009, 06:06 AM

I think this is the link Owen wanted to post - some good photos of Old, Old Rhinebeck.

http://www.pictorialism.com/airplanes.htm

airknocker · 7 June 2009, 02:01 PM

From colepalen.com, a comment from a first time visitor:
Maureen MacPhail
Date: 06/06/2009
Comment: Visited opening day today and was in awe of all the amazing planes and people. A
magical place.
She said it for us all.

Javro504k · 30 June 2009, 10:40 PM

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I stumbled onto this forum and I see that someone had seen my photos on Flickr. I would like to add some old photos that I have but it seems that I have to post more than 10 times and I couldn't submit the URL's of the Photos. On Flickr my users name is jjambien1 . Also I recently found a lot of old Photos that I have to scan but I will get them as soon as I can. I went to Old Rhinebeck in 06 and I cannot believe the changes there! I hope everbody is well.

Jeff Millman

I hope I removed scren Name!!

Javro504k · 30 June 2009, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Javro504k

I stumbled onto this forum and I see that someone had seen my photos on Flickr. I would like to add some old photos that I have but it seems that I have to post more than 10 times and I couldn't submit the URL's of the Photos. On Flickr my users name is jjambien1 . Also I recently found a lot of old Photos that I have to scan but I will get them as soon as I can. I went to Old Rhinebeck in 06 and I cannot believe the changes there! I hope everbody is well.
My first post is on page 97!

Jeff Millman

Trying to mask SN!! on my first post. I am having some problems. Also when I see the # of post I posted it show that I have 0 posts!