[PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I'd suggest that it's a pretty good idea not to stay in Motel 6 ANYWHERE.
But that's just my personal approach to travel...like the idea of travel
itself, one size does not fit all.  And in hotels, like other things, I'm
strictly middle-of-the-road.

Nobody asked, but Delta Air Lines is gradually remaking its aircraft
interiors to allow space for passenger movement once seated.  Three of four
planes on a quick trip to Florida this week actually allowed my knees NOT to
touch the seat in front.  And their price was identical to Air Tran, who
gives you 30 inches, period.  Other than American Airlines, Delta seems to
be the only major carrier who gives any appreciable space throughout the
coach cabin.  And I proved that it was possible to make a 20-minute
connection from A31 to B7 at Atlanta without running!  Their employees are
as nice as they come in the industry.  Now once all those planes used on the
European runs are reconfigured...

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:01 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods


Great way to get it back on topic.  And I'll also suggest, don't stay in
Motel 6
in Pittsburg, California.  They have a gate guard who vanishes when it gets
dark, and the desk clerk makes you sign an affidavit that you will not do
anything illegal in your room.  Different Pittsburg.

And there are other great ways to find what else surrounds you ... examples
that
I've done:

     1.  Photograph all the covered bridges within 50 miles of home.

     2.  Look for and photograph all of the pre-revolutionary houses and
buildings.  There are a lot of those in southeastern Pennsylvania.

     3.  Simply hunt pretty farms to photograph.   Trees too.

Nuff said.   fws

Bob Rathke wrote:

> Fred,
>
> I continue to be amazed at how often I meet people who have lived in
Chicago
> all their lives, but have no idea of the areas just a few miles beyond
their
> neighborhoods.
>
> I've lived here since late 1983, and I think that by early 1984 I had
> studied the street maps and I had a good idea where neighboring towns were
> located.  I even went out and visited some of these neighborhoods, just to
> see where they are and what they look like.
>
> Yesterday I had a meeting with a business professional in the Loop who has
> lived here nearly all his life, but he has never been in Union Station,
nor
> does he know exactly where it is located.
>
> I still remember the New Yorker I met when I was living in Manhattasn in
> 1968.  I told him that I was from Pittsburgh, and he replied, "Isn't that
in
> the Poconos?"
>
> Bob 3/4/05
>
> -----------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:55 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge
>
> > Back in the late 1960s I spent a miserable two years teaching in a
public
> high
> > school in the Lancaster area ... best thing I ever did was leave and
find
> > something I loved to do.  One of my impressions during that period is
that
> most
> > of the kids I worked with considered a long vacation trip to be a
Saturday
> > journey to the Delaware Park Race Track in Newark, Delaware.  The
teacher
> of
> > Pennsylvania history had never been west of Harrisburg ... you should
have
> heard
> > him trying to pronounce Monongahela.
> >
> > And when I was awaiting the ship for Germany in 1959, the army detailed
me
> to
> > the finance office at Fort Dix to type up payroll vouchers for those
chaps
> > coming back home from Europe.  I was stunned.  Most people had no
interest
> in
> > seeing Germany or France or wherever it was we had placed them.  We were
> paying
> > almost every one of them (somewhere over 90 percent) for every single
day
> of
> > vacation they accumulated while in Europe.  (I let them pay me for zero
> days
> > when I came home.)
> >
> > Railfans are an odd lot in more ways than one.  Few "normal" people I've
> met had
> > the comprehension of maps that the average railfan does.  Isn't it
great?
> >
> > Bob Rathke wrote:
> >
> > > Many people in Pittsburgh have never left "their" side of the river,
let
> > > alone travel out of the state.  So, some people on the South Side
would
> > > never know that Brady Street was on the other end of the South 22nd
St.
> > > Bridge :-)
> > >
> > > Bob 3/4/05
> > >
> > > -----------------------------
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
> > > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:44 AM
> > > Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Swindler wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Interesting.  I never heard it referred to as the 22nd St. bridge,
> but
> > > then
> > > > > I lived in the East End.  I would tend to link a numbered street
> with
> > > the
> > > > > strip district and routes 87 and 88.
> > > >
> > > > South 22nd st, but that's commonly left out. Remember the 10th st
> bridge
> > > > goes from 2nd Avenue at the Armstrong Tunnels to the South Side.
> Really it
> > > > is the south 10th St bridge. Some old maps still call the new bridge
> the
> > > > 22nd St Bridge. Of course, 22nd St is *next to* the bridge, but...
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >