[PRCo] Re: (No In-Reply-To: <E28CF3F3-5419-4712-B1C1-0D2B59B4636D at comcast.net>

[John Swindler]

Many years ago someone made a comment that NJ firms would get a post office 
box at the Princeton, NJ post office, so as to give the impression that they 
were located in Princeton.



>From: Joshua Dunfield <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: (No In-Reply-To: 
><E28CF3F3-5419-4712-B1C1-0D2B59B4636D at comcast.net> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 
>00:27:41 -0500
>
>Fred Schneider wrote:
> > I love that Derrick.   Fifteen years ago ... maybe even longer ... My
> > sisty ugler (her term) told me she wanted to take me out to this
> > wonderful restaurant she knew in Shadyside.  When we got there I had
> > to ask, "If this is Shadyside, how come I'm looking up at the steeple
> > of East Liberty Presbyterian Church?"   That long ago no body in the
> > restaurant business wanted to admit that they were actually in East
> > Liberty.    And Rich Allman's son is in the Presbyterian seminiary in
> > Pittsburgh and he lives in what I used to call East Liberty but he
> > calls it Highland Park.
>
>I thought "Eastside" was supposed to be the (kind of silly) name for
>a specific new development on the border of East Liberty and Shadyside,
>which they got by combining "East-" and "-side".  Maybe it's progress
>that *part* of the name admits to being in East Liberty.  The suburbanites
>can pretend that "East" just refers to "East End".
>
>I don't know how many restaurants would admit to being in East Liberty
>today, besides Abay, where it would be a selling point.
>
> > Why just pick on Pittsburgh.   That's not fair is it.   Here in
> > Lancaster we used to have streetcar routes and later bus lines that
> > were identified by the political wards they served: 7th Ward (and
> > later the Duke St. - 7th Ward bus), 6th Ward (and later the 6th Ward
> > - Laurel bus), and the 8th Ward - McCaskey bus.    Well, we no longer
> > have a 7th Ward bus.   We still have a bus that goes to through the
> > 7th Ward but now its called "Southeast Lancaster" because everybody
> > knows "The Ward" is such a horrible place.
>
>Heh.  Sometimes I wonder if, eventually, half of Philadelphia will be
>called Center City.
>
>-j.
>

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