[PRCo] Re: 4398

[Fred Schneider]

Thanks.  I want to see it [Glendale] later this year.

A tad over $2 a gallon?  Sounds cheap to me.  I've got to inquire of my friends in Europe to see how much gasoline prices have gone up over there.  Germany and England were nudging past the $5 mark last summer.  I've been told it is getting close to $6 but that needs to be verified.

Fuel here is about $1.75 for 89 octane (VW engines don't like a steady diet of 87 octane fuel)  here is Lancaster.  Seemed about the same in Washington last weekend but some of the turnpike stations were between $1.80 and $1.90.   Housing is a much bigger variable ... I suspect I could sell my place for $200K.  When you get into some of the depressed parts of western Pennsylvania, it gets much lower.  Ed told me that the smaller homes in Meadowlands go for as low as $40,000 but that they go so fast that they are never on a published list by the real estate brokers.   Restaurant meals are a lot cheaper out in the Washington area.  Ed, Janice and I went into a restaurant in his neighborhood last week ... a local place that was always good but had just changed hands ... someone coming out suggested we seriously read the menu and look at the prices before we stay and eat.  During dinner we saw quite a few people come in, note that the prices had gone up, and they left.  How much was
it?  How expensive was it?  I had white clam sauce over pasta, with about a dozen whole clams in shells around it, a salad, and a glass of wine for $17 plus tax and tip.  I thought it was economical and by eastern Pennsylvania standards, it was.


rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote:

> Hey guys. I would really like to abandon California for a cheaper place to live. Any such place exist near PTM ???  Gas prices here are out of sight and now at $2.23 for reg. !!!!!   cheers rogertrolley      I finally got to San Pedro to see the Red Car operation there with two replica PE 500 class cars and the real PE 1057 rebuilt out of a ten and nine hundred class car. Richard Fellows boatyard was next to Terminal Island where hundreds of PE cars were scrapped. He suceeded in dragging 2 hulks over to his yard and spliced them together to create the #1057, which was one number higher than the PE tens went. A great operation of only 1 3\4 miles long. Operates friday thru monday 8am to 6pm.  A great ride with a passing track in middle. Also rode the New Pasadena Gold line. A truley funky operation of a lite rail line on all kinds of right-of-way. Center of freeway ,tunnel, P-R-W, middle of a street at 20mph and numerous road crossings where several collisions and near misses!
>  have ocurred with brain dead drivers, plus elevated concrete structures and finally ending at LA UNION STA. where in order to get to downtown ,the Red Line heavy rail is taken three stations !!!!  $3 all day pass gets you anywhere you want to go. Only parking is at Pasadena end at Sierra Madre Sta. where a free parking garage is located beside the I-210.