Saturday Daily Delawhere [11.26.11]

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1. Weave says:

   November 26, 2011 at 7:47 am

   Photo was shot between these two points – http://g.co/maps/4kh6k and http://g.co/maps/ugs44 — in other words, on the green of old Pike Creek Golf Course off Skyline Drive near Fairway Drive.

2. puck says:

   November 26, 2011 at 3:02 pm

   Some of the most beautiful sunsets in Delaware are from this point. There’s a reason they call it Skyline Drive. The westward view from the top floor of Skyline Middle school is spectacular. I never was able to pay attention in class.

3. Baba Louie says:

   November 26, 2011 at 4:18 pm

   I used to be hypnotized watching the Air National Guard doing loops around the county while in class on the top floor of Skyline. The view downhill from there is eastward, unless you were in one of the shops (watching Mr. Lupoli exhibit the sad neurological effects of breathing in all those urethane fumes from his chess-piece molds).

   The wonderful thing, which is only available for the next year or so, is that nobody bought Three Little Bakers golf course to run as a golf course. So, for the time being, Pike Creek Valley has a long, linear park. The cart paths make great bike routes, if you don’t mind coming back uphill from the creek.

   But, yeah, I’ve enjoyed the sunsets at that spot for decades.

4. JustSomeGuy says:

   November 26, 2011 at 5:13 pm

   In 1971 I was the first A&P employee pre opening of the Polly Drummond Store where Zingo’s is now The area had few houses Deacon’s walk was just coming out of the ground. The golf course was in the planning stage. It was wide open country from there to Hooppes via Mermaid Stoney Battter or Brackenvile Rd. skyline middle was not even a dream yet. Life really was better then:)

5. meatball says:

   November 26, 2011 at 6:10 pm

   Who knew there were so many Skyline alumni on here? Mr Bartoli anyone? Mr and Mrs. Miller?

6. puck says:

   November 26, 2011 at 6:47 pm

   The golf course development was blocked and is going to the (Delaware) Supreme Court, by the way.

7. Baba Louie says:

   November 28, 2011 at 2:49 pm

   Mr Miller went on to be an elementary school principal at Wilmington Christian, rubbed people the wrong way with his autocratic style, took a position at Red Lion Christian, and was out of there in pretty short order. I entered Skyline Jr High (from Heritage) in ’74 and had older siblings that went there, so it had to have been there in ’71. Lotsa weird memories from there. Some amusing, and some disturbing.

8. Baba Louie says:

   November 28, 2011 at 2:50 pm

   And… Oh yeah… Blockhead.

9. Bill Dunn says:

   November 29, 2011 at 10:13 am

   I remember Bartoli living in the neighborhood, but teaching at Forest Oak or Stanton or somewhere else in the old Stanton School District.

   I think Heritage Elem. opened in ’68 and Skyline in ’70 or ’71.
   If you look into the Pike Creek Development plan that was first conceived of in ’64 and later revised in ’69, you see what was RESPONSIBLE development planning!!!

   Growing up at the bottom of Pike Creek by Dickinson HS, I remember going out with my father and brothers one Saturday morning when I was little and driving OLD Linden Hill road so my older brother could collect leaves for his Cub Scout project. I bring that up because at that time, before any housing construction could begin, Linden Hill road and other arteries had to be expanded, sewer and water systems had to be installed and land for additional schools had to be mapped out.

   For those things to occur, it took TIME and it took MONEY from developers, who accepted responsibility for the impact their plan would have on the long-term stability of the area.

   We need that as much today, as we did then.