Cruise Into The Past
Just one quick shot to share from yesterday’s car show at the Terminal. I may put together a slide show if I get a chance.
As promised in a previous post, I wrote a letter to the editor of The Sun in response to their editorial on tearing down the Skyway. There it was today, filling up a huge section of the editorial page. Reprinted here: Editor, The Sun: The Skyway has certainly become a hot topic since waterfront development…
The debate raged on [and off] for years, but in the end the Atwater house disappeared in a flash. Elmwoodies went limp and vow never to eat at Pano’s again, but the losses will be easily offset by the future gain in parking spaces, and hopefully a completely rebuilt building that will show there’s true…
This weekend was the last weekend in our old house. We haven`t been living there for over a week now (moving back home with your family is another post all together), so each time we went back to continue packing and clean a bit, it felt less and less like home. The emptiness I have…
Well, it certainly felt good to not have the EZPass log another toll for me on my way home today, but it certainly made for one heck of a traffic slowdown! Heading southbound at the Black Rock barrier, only the left two toll lanes remained open, which is fine because those were the two “higher…
A couple weeks ago I mentioned a trip to the East Side to visit the former Sears building on Broadway and Fillmore. Broadway-Fillmore Alive has posted their article on the building which we are now calling the Eckhardt Building after the family it was built for, whom opened Eckhardt’s Department Store in it, and who…
I work in a corporate environment. Things are done for reasons that often baffle the masses. I’m generally pretty good at understanding both sides of an issue. Today’s just took the cake, though. Everyone in our office today walked in to find their normal sized garbage cans replaced with these, seemingly from the world of…