[PRCo] Re: Only__In...........................

[Fred Schneider]

I know that people swim in the English Channel.  I've know that since I was 10.  I've never seen all that
many people doing it ... not like the Atlantic Ocean beaches or the Pacific below Santa Monica.  I've seen
them in the water near the Hague in wet suits.  THAT WATER IS COLD.
Nudity.  I'm aware.  The first time I took Marie to San Francisco, we were walking across Aquatic Park.
Beautiful sunny Sunday afernoon.  Kids were flying kites.  Older people were sitting on the lawn reading
newspapers.  Then Marie grabs me and pulls me away, saying , "We've got to leave."  She hoarsely whispers
that our daughter can't see this.  I turned pack and there was nothing unusual ... just two people under a
blanket ... not unusual except that the blanket was rythmically going up and down.  When you live in a city,
privacy is at a premium.   You take what you can get.   Now that she is a grandma, she is a little more
willing to accept what others do.

"James B. Holland" wrote:

> Wellllllll.......
>
> People swim the English Channel and That Is Not Warm.
>
> Also people who swim the Bay Here in normal swim suits  --  don't know
> their exact route  --  these are people who train in this water all the
> time.       So it is possible to be acclimated to the water.
>
> Nudity around here is not uncommon.
>
> Working the run I had during the quake and probably just before the
> same, I was in the Marina around 6-PM heading downtown.       This is in
> the middle of the heavy business district within the Marina on Chestnut
> near Scott and Pierce.       About 3-4--people onboard, one woman
> standing near the front facing the right side.       She lets out this
> absolutely blood curdling scream  --  saw my whole life flash in front
> of me and then caught this glimpse of a stark nude man jumping through
> the plate glass window of a woman's lingerie shop.
>
> Women casually use the rest room outdoors in this area after a night at
> the bars  --  even did so on my current bus route within the past month
> --  up in the territory where the Getty's live  (3-Jackson travels
> through prestigious Pacific Heights where is the Real Big Money!)
>
> And again in the Marina area, after the bars closed, saw several drunk
> women strip another one nude piece by piece, giggling all the while as
> only women can, especially when tanked!
>
> It Is Quite Common to have large contingents of Nude Racers  --  Male
> And Female  --  in the Annual Bay to Breakers Race which attracts
> runners from all over the world.       This starts at the Embarcadero,
> runs up Mission, then 9th, Hayes Street Hill past Alamo Square, then
> into Golden Gate Park right past my house to the Ocean Beach!
> Local news anchor Kate Kelly was covering the race one year and
> stuttered all over every word she spoke as some nude men ran into the
> view of the camera and they didn't cut the scene fast enough!
>
> Understand nudity was not unusual on transit in the Hippie Days of the
> 1960s, especially around the Haight.
>
> Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> > As cold as that water is, are we sure this isn't a somewhat normal
> > person in a wet suit? Seems to me that one swim naked and he would be
> > a corpse in that water....
> > "James B. Holland" wrote:
> >
> >> My bus is 20-miles south of Sausalito and why would someone else be
> >> driving my bus?!?! Doesn't make any sense, not even in jest.
> >>
> >> Rumor is that this dude (or woman, identity unknown at this point if
> >> you read the rest of the article) is from Eastern Pennsylvania!!!!!!!
> >>
> >> Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:
> >>
> >>> He is not riding your bus is he Jim? I certainly hope he is not
> >>> driving your bus. :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> >>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> >>> James B. Holland
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:20 AM
> >>> To: - 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -
> >>> Subject: [PRCo] Only__In...........................
> >>>
> >>> """Always on the lookout for sea lions, diners at the Spinnaker
> >>> restaurant on the fashionable Sausalito waterfront {Marin County,
> >>> just north of the Golden Gate Bridge] have recently been catching
> >>> alarming glimpses of a mysterious creature flapping around in the
> >>> murky water."""
> >>>
> >>> """A naked man has reportedly been swimming in full view of patrons
> >>> enjoying lunch beside the restaurant's panoramic windows."""
> >>>
> >>> """-"The man apparently likes to swim in front of the Spinnaker
> >>> restaurant and, in what you might call a strategic move, he likes to
> >>> roll over in front of the guests," said City Manager Dana Whitson,
> >>> repeating accounts she has heard. "The police have gotten phone
> >>> calls."-"""
> >>>
> >>> """The unsavory (by most accounts) sight has ruffled passing
> >>> tourists and caused more than a few diners to nearly choke on their
> >>> chowder while looking out over the San Francisco Bay."""
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If you need to read the rest of this account:::::::
> >>>
> >>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/09/BAGLJE50C61.DTL&hw=phantom&sn=004&sc=712
> >>
>
> Jim__Holland
>
> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
>
> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!