[PRCo] Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Fred Schneider fschnei at supernet.com
Tue Dec 23 11:25:10 EST 2003


And that I understand.  Pittsburgh no longer felt like home to me after
there was no longer an excess of Sulphur Dioxide in the air.   It
smelled uniquely like Pittsburgh.

boris6 at volny.cz wrote:

> I remember the same in Ostrava's streets. I remember that smell of
> the fresh air from coke plants, iron furnaces, steel mills and I
> don't know what else. Well, I was kid, but I miss it sometimes.
> Ostrava is no longer the steel city.
>
> > Right ... with red and orange and black dirt from the
> > steel mills on top of
> > newly fallen snow?   And ashes on the streets?
>
> > And you want to go there and get a good dose of that in
> > your lungs?





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