Do you know where in Red Bank the above photo was taken?
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Here’s the answer to last week’s “Where.”
Two people guessed that last week’s “Where” photo was taken at the-junk filled property at 90 Bank Street that has drawn neighbors’ scorn and code enforcement violations for years.
“In Bill Poku’s junkyard on Bank St.” read one response. “The messy property in litigation” read another.
Alas, while there are at least nine rotting vehicles in and around that property, they are all real cars and trucks, not toy ones (although pieces of disassembled toys can be seen among the junk as well). This tiny white car is prominently displayed at another location.
It is less easy to find than we thought, apparently. Only one person replied with the correct answer, mail carrier Matthew Forman, who seemingly cannot be stumped at this game – even when the photo features an actual stump!
Forman replied correctly that the small car attached to a tree stump is “behind Steve’s Auto Repair, 2A Park Place.”
Park Place is a short street just off Drs. James Parker Boulevard just west of Maple Avenue that provides a back entrance to Count Basie Park. The car has been alongside the auto shop in plain sight for anyone using the entrance for at least a year, most recently attached to a tree trunk that serves as a base for this ponderous piece of found art sculpture.
But now? Well, we have breaking “Where” news! The Wheremaster visited the spot Thursday morning and the tree stump that served as the base for this bit of ad hoc sculpture was gone, reduced to wood chips on the ground at our feet. 
The car had been set aside up against Steve’s Auto near an old El Camino. Whether the car’s newfound fame as the subject of “Where Have I Seen This” (crowds of onlookers creating problems perhaps? A sharp jump in the auction value due to its celebrity status?) had anything do with it being moved is unclear.
Attempts to get that answer or the story behind the unique art installation were unsuccessful. Three visits to Steve’s Auto with loud door knocks went unanswered. Phone calls to the number listed for the business found the number disconnected.
Thanks to those wrote in: Joseph Dignan, Karrgflght, Cecelia Freda and Matthew Forman.
And a special shout out to Cecelia Freda, who pursued the industrial-setting clues in the photo high and low across every industrial looking nook and cranny of the town this week, but could not find the moving target and guessed that it might have been at Red Bank Recycling on Central Avenue. We hope the coincidentally-timed removal of the stump and moving of the car didn’t keep her from seeing it as she passed by. She deserves huge kudos for her efforts.
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