Nothing like entering a hole under the ground!
Looks like you didn't need the NYC subway to "get more than a ride it's a circus on the side" back in the old days. Then again, I remember the Port Authority Bus Terminal back in the old pre-Giuliani days. Oh brother...
Port Authority? Thanks, gonna have a hard time getting that thought out of my mind. I was there a lot in the 70s, taking the Sunday night Norfolk navy base special. The bus station, in all it's glory!
Yeah. But there was a really good and really cheap Greek restaurant right next to the bus terminal.
I LOVE Greek food! Here we have a whole street of Greek restaurants, Danforth avenue. If you leave there hungry, well I just ain't responsible! I could go for a Gyro right now!
When I lived in Toronto in the late '60's it had a lot of interesting ethnic neighborhoods. And, unlike the USA, downtown was a reasonable place to live.
Toronto still is, almost every ethnic group in the world is here. Maltese, Chileans, Tibetans and so forth. The downtown never declined because unlike an American city, people have always lived downtown. I was in Columbus, Ohio on business about ten years ago. The downtown was deserted at 6PM because no one lived there and never did. Not a bad place, just uninhabited. Zoning didn't allow residences in business districts as I understand it since the infrastructure ( large water and sewer capacity for one) was not built for it. Midtown Manhattan is deserted in the late evenings but the residential areas are always humming! In Toronto you can have a fifty story office building on the main avenue, turn a corner and its all single family houses. It's nice here.
54light15t's nice here.
I always enjoyed living in Toronto. I always lived downtown.
That's where I live. The King streetcar stops right across the street from my place on Roncesvalles avenue. You may be interested to know that the Roncesvalles car house has been expanded for the new streetcars coming this year and the new yard at Leslie st and the Lakeshore is well under construction. Should be finished next year as I understand.
I FOUND THE STUPID KID!
I FOUND THE STUPID KID!!!!!
There I was, looking at "You Tube Soupy Sales Green Pieces of Paper", and in the Comments section there's a commenter who ADMITTED to sending five bucks!
You better run pal, there's a bunch of guys out here who've been waiting 48 years for revenge!
Wonder what a "stupid kid" looks like when he's in his late 50's? Hmmmmm...
Just to show you he hasn't learned anything over the past decades he put his NAME on the post! No, I won't tell you what it is, you'll have to look for yourselves.
I looked at the You Tube, jeez, what a maroon!
I just heard of an update to the Oscar Mayer song:
"Oh I'd love to be elected Mayor Weiner!"
That's all I got but it was in the Toronto Star yesterday. I guess you might have heard how our mayor was on a cell-phone camera smoking crack with two known drug dealers, one of whom was shot dead a short time later. This was last Thursday when the story came out. It's now 8 days later and he has not spoken one word about it except to say "these allegations are ridiculous!" - Yet, there he is. I recall what the character Duke in Doonesbury said a few years ago- "This is why I stopped doing drugs. Who can tell the difference anymore?"
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you! A crack smoking mayor of Toronto? I thought such things didn't happen in Canada!
Washington, Detroit, Chicago, those places wouldn't surprise me. Toronto! My God!
You wouldn't catch Mayor Bloomberg of New York doing that, he's too much of a Health Fascist.
So you know what this means? Sandy Rinomato for Mayor! Now's your chance girl! Go for it!
Wow, and I thought this thread was finished.
Here in Canada, living on the edge of the tundra, not a lot to do except check the polar bear traps, be polite and smoke crack. I'm waiting for the real story to come out. He finally spoke yesterday and said "I do not smoke crack." ( note the tense) He lied about a DUI and marijuana possession in Florida in 1999, he lied about being drunk, abusive and thrown out of a Maple Leafs game in 2006. He was thrown out of a fancy regimental dinner last winter for being either drunk or on drugs. And life in the frozen north goes on.
Hoo, boy. OK, there's nothing unusual about people being DUI and smoking dope in Florida, I suppose there's nothing unusual about being drunk at a Maple Leafs game. But being drunk at a regimental dinner? He's lucky the Regimental Sergeant Major didn't take him outside to "sort him out." RSM's are pretty good at that you know.
Can a man electrocute himself by peeing on the third rail/////Mythbusters busted that one
BonasCan a man electrocute himself by peeing on the third rail/////Mythbusters busted that one
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jeffrey-wimberlyAnd how! Then they went back and busted it AGAIN!
If you don't mind I'll stick to a conventional urinal and leave the third rails to more adventurous souls.
They can bust it as many times as they like, I'm still not gonna try it!
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