I drove through New York City one time in 1985 when two other fellow sailors from the United States Navy and I were returning to the state of Maine from when we had been in Charleston South Carolina for training. Our ship the USS Taylor FFG 50 was regularly homeported in Charleston South Carolina but the ship was constructed in Maine and we were back there in the shipyard for repairs in late 1985 as, to my understanding, all new Perry-class guided missile frigates underwent during their first year as an active duty warship of the United States Navy.
So anyway, that's really the extent of any kind of knowledge firsthand I possess in my mind about New York City. I am not really even certain I was driving the car then. I feel certain I was just riding in back cramped in the two-seat car that another sailor had agreed to drive back from Charleston for another sailor who was still there in Maine. I remember I got very sick about that time. The ship's hospital corpsman was very concerned about me. I can remember that I had detached from the ship and by January or February 1986 I was in Orlando Florida and I was attending Basic Electricity and Electronics School, as I had been promoted to Fire Controlman Third Class Petty Officer, and I can still remember that I had the sniffles, as I was almost recovered, as I was down there and I had met a girl, who was recently graduated from United States Navy boot camp, and she and I went to Daytona Beach for the weekend just after she got out of boot camp.
Why am I writing about this? Oh, yes. Vanderbilt. The video clearly shows a statue of "CORNELIVS VANDERBILT" and that he is the founder of something. Only just a few minutes ago, or more really, the past half-hour, because this takes awhile to stop and record these observations, did I notice that Vanderbilt text. The scene is already established though. The scene has already clearly been established. When that douche-bag Will Smith, portraying "Robert Neville" first enters the camera scene that I later noticed the text "Vanderbilt" the ragged hole in the building is already clearly established. I haven't gone back through the DVD video, as I have it paused now at the point where he is dragging himself back to his vehicle, and the sunlight is almost gone, and there is when I just now in the recent hour noticed that "Vanderbilt" text.
I had thought, earlier, I had referenced before the dialog from the racketeering "Navy Seals" film from 1990 but I didn't find the specific dialog in my online journal I was looking for.
The video always makes me wonder who moved "Fred" the dummy to that location. Obviously, the zombies did it in that film. The zombies made that film.
