Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh Larry. I lived on SI from 1980 - 1982. I have a son living there now, god help him. Larry, where your folks had a place? It's the largest landfill on earth now. It's a landfill so big it can be seen from outer space with the naked eye, apparently. And I mean, that's just the beginning. Nowadays all you can say is it's ugly it's crass it's nasty it has a high cancer rate and it votes strictly Republican. If you mixed Margaret Thatcher, Tony Danza and the alien from the first Cameron Alien movie, you'd have a typical 21st century Staten Islander. VP On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Vince writes: > "Actually the part of NYC that's closest to Philly is Staten Island and on > > that, the less said the better." > > > Vince, > > I can't believe you really mean that. I'll bet you have never been to > Staten > Island. I lived there from 1963 through 1965. It was before the Verrazano > Bridge was built and the only connection to New York City was the Staten > Island ferry. Except for the built up area and the docks adjacent to New > York harbor it was quite pastoral with large green belt areas and parks. It > reminded me of a small town in the Midwest. My future in-laws had a home in > the central part of the island, surrounded by woods with a working farm > just > down the narrow street. Of course the home also had no city sewer > connection > and a backyard outhouse. But it was very quiet. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >