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

[Fred Schneider]

You know, Johshua, that you can commute in the rush hour to King of  
Prussia faster from northeastern Lancaster County faster via the  
Pennsylvania Turnpike faster than you can drive out the Schuylkill  
Expressway from Center City Philadelphia.   Of course ten years from  
now the Turnpike will be jammed and they will be trying to figure out  
how to add two more lanes....

On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

>
> 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.
>