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Post by skuakid on Mar 16, 2006 15:17:19 GMT -5
I remember the truck would drive around the town, usually at night, and spray a mist from the back to control the mosquito pop. We would run behind the truck breathing in the sweet toxic fumes.
This could explain a few things about me.....
It was really cool when it was misty at night because the spray would hang in the mist creating a dense fog.
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Post by Al Alven on Mar 16, 2006 15:20:08 GMT -5
Don't remember it personally, but I have heard about it.
Could you imagine something like that today?
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Post by skuakid on Mar 16, 2006 15:26:08 GMT -5
Not at all.
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Post by wildre on Mar 16, 2006 15:26:44 GMT -5
I remember those trucks, usually right around dusk they would come.
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Post by JerseyDigger29 on Mar 16, 2006 17:20:30 GMT -5
I remember those trucks, usually right around dusk they would come. re Me, too. I used to run behind it. Misguided attempt to get high or something, until my mother told me I would probably suffer brain damage or something. She was right - Thom  |
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Post by MMM on Mar 16, 2006 23:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by homer on May 7, 2006 15:59:49 GMT -5
In North Wildwood (in the "off-season") the NW Beach Patrol jeeps sprayed the DDT (or whatever noxious gas it was.) I used to run right behind it with a toy rifle and pretend I was in a WW II movie. I never had to contend with mosquitoes growing up on this island as a kid (but the chronic headaches were a nuisance.--just kidding.) When my family moved to Cumberland County for a year, I was shocked at the amount of bugs that the rest of the world had to deal with. God bless the Cape May County Mosquito Commission. |
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Post by CondorAlex on May 15, 2006 8:49:03 GMT -5
I'm suprised about how many people have actually ran behind this truck in the past to breathe those fumes. I guess it tells you something about the times, eh? Btw, Homer, Love the new Avatar.
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Post by homer on May 20, 2006 9:06:00 GMT -5
Thanks, uh ... "C_V". I borrowed it from:  www.spaceagecity.com: "This website is constructed entirely of plastics. Despite the graceful, lightweight appearance of this site, each page is able to support more than 13 tons." |
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Post by pam on Aug 19, 2006 16:47:35 GMT -5
I can't believe I found this site!! I still remember the smell...it was a big deal to sit on my grandparents' front porch on Columbine Rd. with our punks and frozen chocolate bananas and actually wait for the truck. We never wanted to miss it. Wow...I hadn't thought about that for a long time.
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Post by MMM on Aug 19, 2006 19:28:37 GMT -5
Welcome Pam.  |
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Post by hulk007 on Aug 20, 2006 0:56:02 GMT -5
Sniffing toxic fumes. The strange things we do as kids.
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Post by FlyinGN on Aug 20, 2006 9:58:12 GMT -5
and we are still here to talk about it!!!! lol
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Post by mickeyfinz on Sept 19, 2006 15:00:42 GMT -5
Our first house in NW was on Spruce Ave on the way in at the turn b4 you got to Zaberer's. One year the mosquitos got very bad and we complained to City Hall that we havn't seen that truck for a while and the pop has gotton out of control. Well....one morning they parked the truck outside our house, on a warm summer morning, and let loose with everything they had. The smoke was on the porch, in the LR and bedrooms, the kids thought it was the end. That sweet smell will always trigger great memories. PS- no mosquitos for the reat of the summer, just keep seeing these purple birds flying by.  |
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Post by watchthetramcar on Sept 19, 2006 20:56:06 GMT -5
In Asbury Park growing up, I would be in the House, hear the distinct Hum of the Truck & run outside jump on my Bike, meet up with all the Neighborhood Kids (who heard it too) and follow behind it with our Bikes! Hummm.... Real DDT oh the fumes .... gotta love the 60's & the 70's! Now I know why I never get Mosquito Bites... I must still have the DDT Residue in my Body! God I Loved Those Days! |
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