HarryHydro's Bio

HarryHydro's Abridged Autobiography

I was born on November 18th, 1962 in Toms River, NJ in Community Memorial Hospital (that's what they were called then). That makes me, eh, about 150 I guess.. ;-)

This picture is of my Brother and I. He's about 3 and I about 1. I think I messed myself. I think we lived on Batchlor Street around this time. Actually, I don't remember living at all at this age!

This picture is of my Wife's Mom and My Mom! Isn't that something?! I might have been the brat you can't see in the carriage in the background. I think I was messing myself. I did that every day at this age! This is definitely our 'Homestead' where I lived until I was 27. I have lot's of fond memories of this place.

Here is Me and my Brother in our Sunday's Best. I couldn't have worn this much because it looks clean. You know I messed myself. He must have been freezing! I just tried to physically fix the picture, but destroyed it instead. Luckily I scanned it first.

Here's a picture of the south side of the house after it was fixed. I use to have fun crawling between the tongue-and-groove slats of wood. That's my Uncle Frank's car and standing is me the rugrat and Kevin, which is Tina's and Frank's Uncle. I must have been about 6 or 7 here. My Grandmother must have taken this picture.

Here, from left to right, my Brother John, friend Frank, me, and my closest friend, Frank's Sister, Tina. They lived in a house out by Hooper Avenue. There was a path through the woods that we created to their house. These WERE the days!

This must have been the same day, except I think my Father took this picture. This was my Grandmother's car. I'm evidently trying to feel her up! Shame on Me! There was this stinky stuff you had to rub on the pictures to keep them from curling and yellowing. The upper-left of the picture missed some of this stuff..

Here is me holding my first 'almost' minibike, a 'Zundap'. I must have been about 12 here. My good friend Mitch gave this to me. I did eventually put a 2 horse engine on it so I could put-put around the church in the background. I did some scary stuff with that engine. I once put a metal fan blade on it, mounted it all on the bottom of a shopping cart, and that pulled me around the church while I steered the front wheels by hand! The guy that gave the engine to me, CB'er "Cheapskate", got mad at me. I surely could have been chopped meat. It was cool though, on a hot summer day!

Here I am drinking coffee. My Mother gave me a thermos of coffee for lunch every day in grade school! The teacher's sighed. I later grew to be nausiated at the mere smell of coffee.

Here is my Father and Mother! This must have been around '77. We loved the pool, but our beloved 'friends' threw glass and crap in it, so down it came.

Here's my Brother and I. I think I was around 16 here. My Brother had a camera setup, complete with developing and enlarging equipment. The black & white film was easier to process.

Here is, right to left, me, my wife's Brother Joey, and his friend. I still have this bb gun!

Here's Pop relaxing in his easy chair. My Brother took this with his new camera!

Me relaxing on my Honda CB/CL 350. This is a CB with a CL engine. My Father bought this for me from a guy he worked with. The engine was put together wrong, but I fixed it up. It has only one shock in back. It rode smoother that way! Also, see the knobby tire? Previous to this bike I had a Honda CT-70H, Gilera 125, Vespa Motor Scooter, and a Kawasaki 175 F7.

We just put the new top on the Hydro Mobile 65 Impala. My first car. $75 (the cost of the car). Later, on the back of the car I put spectrum tape lettering reading "HYDROFOIL CH19"

Here's Joey and I on bikes! His is a Yamaha 100 (pre YZ)

Here's what 'lab' I had back then. I can recognize the guitar (still have), radio shack echo chamber I built from a kit (the thing with three posts on it), cassettes, and the Polaroid Land camera that was my Fathers. I see the smelly kerosene heater in the back, too. This was a cold room in the winter!

Here I must be heading next door to 'jam' with the boys!

I played bass with the band next door. Once the police had calls from apartments a quarter-mile away reporting loud music! I recorded then and have them on the iPod! circa. early 80's

A view of the Homestead from the path. Today there is no evidence of a house ever being there. However, the path is still preserved.

We moved into this place in '88. It was nice when Dad finished doing the repairs. Noisy area though, next to the parkway. I liked the back-woods.

Here is the back before the major upgrades.

Me pretending I could play a 12 string.

Here is me at my Wife's Mother's house. circa early 90's

Here's Dawn from the late 80's.

I bought this place in '99. Back in the woods again! YAYY!! Here is a sun flower before the ants got to it.

The Lady and I Christmas 1999 I think.

Here's Toby, the toy retriever, being about as cute as can be.

The folks moved in with us in 2001. This was the 22nd picture I took with the digital camera Sony DSC-F707. I'm saving load$ from not using film! I've since taken over 5,000 pictures with this camera.

I think I was fighting a computer virus when I took this picture. I look like ,".. a broken man.." as a Buddy put it.

Hhheeerrreee''s Johnny! The caption: This is one of the sharpest webcams there were. Not as light-sensitive as the 3-Com HomeConnect, though.

This was my Birthday Nov. 18th 2001 5:30AM. It was that year with all the meteor showers! We were out all night taking pictures of the skies at Hobbler Park. My wife took this picture of me hugging a hot chocolate from Quik Chek. It was Fricken Cold out!