NEPA ~ Off Topic ~ Chatting Thread ( New ) (Carlisle: dryer, Sears, shipping)

[East Coast Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Fisheye, I thought of you today. My son's in your old stomping ground. He's in Carlisle this weekend for the car show. He and eleven or so of his "best friends" are occupying three rooms at the Roadway Inn on Route 11. The location is perfect. It's just up the road from the fairgrounds, there's a gas station and truck wash across the street, an old bar on one side and a porn shop on the other. Fortunately, the whole place is full of car heads, so they won't be bothering any unsuspecting travelers.

The only thing I remember about Carlisle is the Army's War College.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by njmike

And some are rained out.

Take me out to the ball game....

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by njmike

The only thing I remember about Carlisle is the Army's War College.

Pretty much the only memorable thing there.

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Fisheye, I thought of you today. My son's in your old stomping ground. He's in Carlisle this weekend for the car show. He and eleven or so of his "best friends" are occupying three rooms at the Roadway Inn on Route 11. The location is perfect. It's just up the road from the fairgrounds, there's a gas station and truck wash across the street, an old bar on one side and a porn shop on the other. Fortunately, the whole place is full of car heads, so they won't be bothering any unsuspecting travelers.

That is very close to where I worked for five years. At first I worked for Consolidated Freight which was located where Old Dominion is located today on your left as you prepare to get off the exit on I-81. Then I worked for Roadway Express (which later became Yellow Roadway) - that is also very close to the Rodeway Inn. I did stay at the Rodeway for several months when I was down there.


There is one motel I stayed at that I will never forget not too far from the Rodeway Inn. That was the Pike Motel located just east of the Rodeway. I remember it because the owner used to hang the sheets on the line and hose the off and then throw them on the grass to dry. I had to spray the bedding hours before I wanted to sleep with yard and garden insect spray - otherwise I had bites all over. I also caught two mice in McDonalds bags that I heard moving in the middle of the night! I always figured that it was against the owners religion to exterminate any pest! Fortunately I quickly moved out and shared an apartment down at the War College which was not too far away. Because I drove sleeper team; most of the time I lived in the truck.


By the way; I never knew where the Carlisle Fairgrounds were located until I just did the Google Earth for the location. I always tried to stay away from the car shows and traffic when I worked down there.


Because of the car shows the Middlesex Police force, that patrols that area, was always extremely hard on speeders and traffic violators. I hope the crew that your son is with really behaves themselves while down in their territory. Out of one hundred of us, that transferred to Carlisle from Pocono Summit when our terminal closed, I think I might have been one of the few that did not get a ticket.

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by njmike

The only thing I remember about Carlisle is the Army's War College.

That is where I had the apartment for most of my five years in Carlisle. Five of us shared the one place. But because of our schedules and jobs; most of the time we had the place to ourselves. The only time I ever used it was if I could not get home for my weekend.


I liked the Carlisle area. That is the place to be if you want a job in trucking. It's one of the trucking hubs for all of the Northeast. I also like the food. They are in the heart of 'grinder' territory. I miss my grinders!


I remember many foreign nationals at the Army College. We apparently trained military people from around the world. I saw many strange uniforms.

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by Gerania

What did you smoke? My father was a Camel (without the hump) guy, and my mother smoked Salem. They both quit many years before they died. Neither of them ever had cancer. My mother-in-law and her mother both died from cancer. They had smoked for a while when they were young, but not for many years before they passed. There's a genetic lottery. You win some and you lose some.

Originally Posted by njmike

And some are rained out.

Some days you're the windshield; some days you're the bug.


FWIW: I always smoked a filter cigarette, but during the final years of smoking, I chose Basic Menthol 100's. Also FWIW: I never had any lung problems. I found out that I have COPD but it has been very mild until this past year.


The late hubs smoked Lucky Strike - no filters for him. He didn't have cancer. He had severe lung disease, as did his two of his sisters and two of his brothers - all smokers.


My mother smoked Salem and she died of an aneurysm. She had uterine cancer at age 29 but had no recurrence.


***** Gerania, it is indeed a genetic lottery. Non-smokers get cancer, too. Witness my lovely daughter-in-law who passed away two years ago at age 52 leaving a grieving husband and two beautiful teen-age girls.


***** Mike, my late hubs was a professional ball player and the "win/lose/rain-out" was one of his sayings.

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by theatergypsy

The late hubs smoked Lucky Strike - no filters for him. He didn't have cancer. He had severe lung disease, as did his two of his sisters and two of his brothers - all smokers.

I smoked Lucky Strike and then finally switched to Newport. I was also two to three packs a day - especially when driving. I gave up when I started coughing up blood in the morning. Fortunately that was about fifteen years ago - I had smoked for about thirty years.


When we grew up it was fashionable to smoke. Heck, in the military; they even gave out those little packages of cigarettes in the meal rations - I forget if they had four or five cigarettes in the package? The big tobacco companies controlled the media and fought ferociously against any negative advertising. Of course, when we were younger, we felt indestructible and never gave cancer a second thought.

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Fisheye, I thought of you today. My son's in your old stomping ground. He's in Carlisle this weekend for the car show. He and eleven or so of his "best friends" are occupying three rooms at the Roadway Inn on Route 11. The location is perfect. It's just up the road from the fairgrounds, there's a gas station and truck wash across the street, an old bar on one side and a porn shop on the other. Fortunately, the whole place is full of car heads, so they won't be bothering any unsuspecting travelers.

I used to go to the Carlisle Car show in the mid 1980s...one time we rolled up in a friends 54 Ford coupe, four of us...wearing leather jackets all punk lookin'
A young smart assed kid about 14 looked over to his Dad and said..'look at these Dorks...they look like a poor mans 'Stray Cats'
We almost peed our pantalones at that remark.

Later we were in a bar and some Yuppie,with his collar popped on his Izod shirt was walking around the bar with a really cool old wooden 3 spoked steering wheel, fishing for compliments...he was rocking on his heels hanging over two girls waving his steering wheel and I said,

'Wow, that must have been some accident you were in, glad you walked away from it...the only thing left is the steering wheel'

[Gerania]

LOL! I haven't heard pantalones in a while. I'll bet you and the posse just looked too cool for school at the fairground that day.

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by Gerania

LOL! I haven't heard pantalones in a while. I'll bet you and the posse just looked too cool for school at the fairground that day.

OMG! My youngest had his youngest last June - closing in on a year old - and Dad has always asked the babe, "Would you care for some clean pantalones?" I swear the kid knows what it means because if he's ready, he stretches out on his back as if to say, "Bring on the pantalones, Pop!"