[PRCo] Re: Was: Knowing the neighborhoods

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Some hotels in America actually have beds long enough to fit you, Boris!
But usually not at Motel 6 prices.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Boris
Cefer
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 1:03 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Was: Knowing the neighborhoods


You haven't experienced my legs, Ed.

Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:49 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods


> 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...
> > > > >
> > > > >
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