[PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs

[Fred Schneider]

I think you are changing.   Lauf, on the other side of Nurnberg, is a  
great little walled town, many more stores, and two train stations.

On Oct 25, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I did/do not dislike Schwabach, though I thought the retail choices  
> and
> hours were a bit limited, but simply like my little suburb better.   
> And it
> would have been a hefty hike to that train station from where we  
> stayed.  I
> might prefer an apartment on a car line in East Berlin to living in  
> a town
> like Schwabach when I become geezerly enough for movement to be  
> severely
> restricted.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:01 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs
>
>
> As the Fonz would have said, "Correctemundo."
>
> I wonder if EHL has yet come to the conclusion, which he had not ten
> years ago, that the town of Schwabach, Germany had a lot to offer.
> For an old fart (and I might add Ed has now passed into Geezerhood),
> it offered food stores, places to buy clothing, a toner cartridge,
> prepared meals, and even religious salvation.   If you couldn't find
> it there, the town had a train station ... and Nürnberg was just a
> perhaps 20 minutes away.  One didn't need to worry about what happens
> when you get too old to drive your car.
>
> I agree with Boris on this one.   There are thousands of those little
> towns scattered across Europe.   We used to have them.   We don't any
> more.
>
> How about it Ed?
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> On Oct 25, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
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>> There is a different world overseas :-D))))))
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>> B
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:54 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs
>>
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>>> And some of us would never be able to get anywhere without them
>>> because we
>>> live in low-density communities!  Of course, when my parents chose
>>> the
>>> property I now live on, the interurban ran a short distance
>>> away...but so
>>> did the new highway.  They chose the location because of both.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
>>> Boris
>>> Cefer
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:44 PM
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs
>>>
>>>
>>> I never liked automobiles. Even as a kid. I was probably not  
>>> aware of
>>>
>>>
>> that,
>>
>>
>>> but there was perhaps some subconscious influence of the fact that
>>> they
>>> killed streetcars in many cities not only in America.
>>>
>>> Automobiles are so much useful, but imagine how the life would be
>>> nice
>>> without them.
>>>
>>> B
>>>
>>>
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