Talk:Times Beach, Missouri

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Contents 1 Agent Orange? 2 Zip Code? 3 Superfund? 4 Times Beach featured in movie...? 5 "Summer Homes"

[edit] Agent Orange?

I am very curious where the information comes from that NEPACCO was actually manufacturing Agent Orange. From my understanding they were simply manufacturing hexachlorophene and dioxin was a biproduct of the manufacturing process they used. While Agent Orange contains dioxin, they were NOT (again, from my understanding) actually manufacturing agent orange. It was simply a byproduct. (FossaFerox 03:46, 2 April 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Zip Code?

Could someone please find out the zipcode used for Times Beach until it was disincorporated? 71.234.63.28 04:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superfund?

CERCLA/Superfund was passed in 1980, so I'm not sure how this disaster, several years later, could have led to its creation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.102.208 (talk) 02:58, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Times Beach featured in movie...?

I remember seeing on HBO or some other cable channel a while back, a certain movie about a group of people, who at one point in the film, decide to take a road trip across the country. At one point in the film, they happen to stop at Times Beach, with the movie focusing on the near-abandoned state of the city. I remember the film showing a scene with a graffito scrawled on the side of a house (or on the sidewalk, I don't exactly recall) stating "Goodbye, Times Bitch". Anyone recall which movie this is? (I've done some searches on IMDB & filminamerica.com, but no luck...) misternuvistor 20:03, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Summer Homes"

They were called "clubhouses" or "club houses", not "summer homes" -- one of them was built by my paternal grandfather Carl with his own hands after he bought the land in the newspaper promotion: he and my grandmother, who both grew up on farms, were going to retire to it but for his death in 1960. It had electricity, an old-fashioned long-handled pump well for water, and an outhouse. Afterward, she spent every summer there (several of them with me as a young boy there with her) until the winter of 1970-'71 when vandals set fire to part of the house, after which my uncle Fred, her elder son, sold it and the land for her.

Gramma Rose grew a row each of corn, okra, tomatoes, peas, green beans, kohlrabi, squash, and rhubarb. We would spend part of each day in a boat tied at the river's edge catching sunfish, which she would clean in the river and pan-fry for our supper each night, along with some of the fresh vegetables she grew; the rest she home-canned for herself for the following winter. No television and only one radio station reached us, Grampa's forty-year collection of Missouri Conservationist magazine provided more than enough reading material, and she taught me canasta, which we played every night. Except for the outhouse, which frightened me (I was not only a young boy, but a small boy), Times Beach was a golden place at a golden time, the site of the happiest days of my childhood. -- Davidkevin (talk) 09:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)