[PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods
Edward H. Lybarger
trams at adelphia.net
Sun Mar 6 10:36:47 EST 2005
American is putting back half of the seats they previously removed from
MD-80, 737, 767 and 777 aircraft. All were restored in 757s and A300s, but
at least they limited the recline so the person in front can't have the back
of his seat in your face as on some other carriers. We like AA.
-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Harold G.
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:33 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods
Ed and all
I read that American was putting the seats back
to tight on some planes. United has room in the
first 5 or so rowes of Coach.
Harold Geissenheimer
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams at adelphia.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:49 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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