[PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Fairfield Inn is a good brand by Marriott, whose affinity program is
probably the best for claiming free rooms.  I use them a lot.

-----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 6:31 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods


To Ed and all

I have used Econolodge several times.  Cheap and
the ones I have stayed in are OK.  Their reservations
are in Grand Jct Colo or Wyoming.

Also the Fairfield Inn from Marriott.

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:
>> > > >
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>> > > > > 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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