Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]East Palo Alto is a different town than Palo Alto, although some parts do share the same zip code, but they are in different counties even! The heart of Palo Alto is just a mile from EPA. During the go-go late 90's, there was a small boom in EPA with housing raising to upper 300's to even 400's. They have since fallen quite a bit. Some East Palo Alto kids attend schools in PA, they do not have their own high school. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com>wrote: > Well if the very heart of the LUG was only a mile away, I had it wrong. > Apologies. > Vince > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Alas, the plane crashed in East Palo Alto, and if East Palo Alto looks > > anything like it did 30 years ago when I sold a car there (one in which > I'd > > driven cross-country, a 1964 Slant-Six Plymouth Valiant convertible) > there > > are no Leicas there, and no members of the LUG. My memory is of > considerable > > dilapidation and a run of junkyards patrolled by snarling dogs. It was > the > > summer of 1979 and no one I encountered in E. Palo Alto during the long > > afternoon I spent there was a very good mood. Then again the whole > country > > was in a bad mood in 1979. We were wiser then. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Philip F <photo.forrest at earthlink.net > >wrote: > > > >> I'm just checking in to see how our saloon keeper is. > >> The headlines are reading that a plane crashed into a residential > >> neighborhood in Palo Alto. > >> Hope all is well, Brian and the rest of our LUG'gers out there in the > >> south bay area. > >> Regards, > >> Phil Forrest > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // portfolio: <http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/AnotherCalifornia > blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963