[PRCo] Re: Was: Knowing the neighborhoods

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Most airplanes are...especially British Air.  One can sleep diagonally on
most hotels' beds!

-----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 1:18 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Was: Knowing the neighborhoods


Guess that was Motel 6 where I spent several nights being accompanied with
Fred III, but I don't remember any problem with the bed. The airplanes (747)
were considerably worse.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 7:08 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Was: Knowing the neighborhoods


> 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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