St Augustine graveyard

rreis · **Joined:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:42 pm **Posts:** 441

Just crossed this

http://atlasobscura.com/place/st-august ... -graveyard

in atlasobscura, a collaborative website to map the strangest or non-mainstream interesting places in the world

viking73 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:27 am

That's interesting. Has anyone from WIX ever seen these in person and have more pictures of these birds?

-Derek

rreis · **Joined:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:42 pm **Posts:** 441

And for those going through or living in Germany...

http://atlasobscura.com/place/kirchheim-natter-pads

DaveG · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:49 am

an earlier thread about this place:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3289&hilit=st.+augustine

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:49 pm

viking73 wrote:

That's interesting. Has anyone from WIX ever seen these in person and have more pictures of these birds?

-Derek

I have.

T-28mike · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 3:37 pm

I helped Charlie White ( Who was trying to buy all of Sam Goldmans parts at the time) move one from the Airport to the storage compound in either late 2003, or early 2004. I had photo's, but they apparently got "lost" when the Ex relocated.

B29Gunner · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 4:13 pm

T-28mike wrote:

I helped Charlie White ( Who was trying to buy all of Sam Goldmans parts at the time) move one from the Airport to the storage compound in either late 2003, or early 2004. I had photo's, but they apparently got "lost" when the Ex relocated.

Is that the same Sam Goldman that owned the Albatrosses at New Smyrna Beach??

T-28mike · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 4:56 pm

That would be him. He owned the Alby with the Dart engines, and a few others. Sam owned lots of things in his life. He was a neat person to talk to. There was a lot of history there. I wish someone had chronicalled all of his doings. It is pretty amazing what he accomplished.

mrhenniger · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:02 pm

viking73 wrote:

That's interesting. Has anyone from WIX ever seen these in person and have more pictures of these birds?

I was there last February. It looked as if the lot was prepared for sale. These birds could be due to be moved, or worse, if the lot does change hands. I don't have any photos posted, but if you are interested in the location this should help...

Aerial Visuals - Location Dossier - Saint Augustine Graveyard

Just below that map is a list of types, serials and markings. The list was compiled with the assistance of Andy Marden's book.

Mike

RareBear · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:02 pm

I drove by there this past January. Couldn't stop due to time limitations, but it's pretty much as described. A bunch of S2 carcasses sitting in a field being slowly overgrown with vegetation. A sad sight.

There's an earlier thread referred to in DaveG's post above. If you go to that thread, DaveG has a post on it (the 11th one down) that provides a link to a lot of photos of the S2's.

Walt

B29Gunner · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:38 pm

T-28mike wrote:

That would be him. He owned the Alby with the Dart engines, and a few others. Sam owned lots of things in his life. He was a neat person to talk to. There was a lot of history there. I wish someone had chronicalled all of his doings. It is pretty amazing what he accomplished.

We spoke a few times about those birds, he owned all 3 of them (one was disassembled and sitting on two trailers.) Do you know who currently owns the S-2's? Is it Mr White?

Tanker 336 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:28 am

More pictures of those Trackers on this site.

http://www.flickriver.com/search/s2+tracker/recent/

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