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This was in the big bucket of photos on the computer. I kind of like it.
It's time for vacation trip part two. Some good stuff is planned for part two, including at least three birthday celebrations. No updates until next Sunday at the earliest.
If you are in New York you can see Manhattanhenge this weekend.
Italian Combo sandwich at the Pizza Joint, Gloversville, NY
Store window display, Gloversville, NY
The sandwich at the Pizza Joint was tasty and the people working there were friendly. I couldn't finish the 6-inch sub, let alone try to tackle a footlong one.
After eating lunch in Grove City I walked up and down the main street. There were zillions of these pea-sized balls along the railroad tracks. The balls have some iron in them but not all of them would stick to a magnet. I would have picked up more to satisfy my pack rat tendencies, but I figured camera-carrying out-of-towner messing around on the tracks in a small town might attract law enforcement attention I wasn't seeking.
What to do now that I'm done with last fall's trip? I never did finish writing about the trip to Milwaukee last summer, or the trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin the year before. I've also got a bunch of photos from the southwest from a couple of months ago. There's always New York, too, I suppose. I need some time to sort this out. Luckily there are two weeks of vacation days that need to be used by the end of June. I'll be back next week or the week after.
It's the David Stroup Fountain in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Stroup was a 19th century candy merchant in Bloomsburg who left money for a fountain. The fountain was cast, probably not a mile from where I'm currently sitting, by the J. L. Mott Iron Works in the Bronx, and was erected in Bloomsburg in 1892. The fountain began to deteriorate in the 1950s and was removed in 1966. Two local residents began restoring the fountain as best they could in 1982. In the early 2000s the original plans were found (links to pdf) and the fountain was completely rebuilt, except for a crane on top, in 2002. In 2005 the crane was found and restored to its rightful place. You can almost see it as the bird spits a line of water in the bottom photo.
I wasn't expecting an interesting back story. I thought it was a pretty fountain that needed its picture taken.
Bloomsburg seems like an enjoyable little college town. I had stopped there once before, but this time I walked around a bit to stretch my legs before driving the rest of the way back home.
Believe it or not there's only one more post from last fall's trip. It will be out of order because I have yet to take a picture of what I collected back in Grove City.
This is what Morningside Park looked like on Sunday morning as I was climbing to the greenmarket by Columbia. We've gotten enough rain this spring that everything looks very lush and green.
I was headed down the stairs this evening when, at pretty much this exact spot, a guy going up asked me "Is there a way out of here"? I pointed to the top of the turret and replied "Up. The stairs go all the way up."
Five Pillows
DeAngelis Delightfully Different Donuts (the donut rotates!)
Pumpkin Donut
The Clarion I stayed at in Monaca, Pennsylvania couldn't have been open more than a week or two. It smelled of fresh carpet and paint and there was nary a scratch or scuff mark to be seen. They also had a guest laundry room. Even though I was only going to be on the road one more day it was nice to have a chance to wash my clothes.
DeAngelis Delightfully Different Donuts is just over the river in Rochester. I don't know about "delightfully different" but the pumpkin donut was deliciously delightful.
I know somebody who lives in this building. Forgotten NY recently walked around the Mt. Morris Park neighborhood just north of the Renaissance.
It's the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line where Ohio Rt 39 magically becomes Pennsylvania Rt 68. The northern tip of West Virginia is across the Ohio River behind where I was standing. The pothole is on the Ohio side. This is the end of the Ohio portion of the trip.
Ever notice on a map how the townships and counties of the Northeast are irregularly shaped, but rectangular from the Midwest all the way out to the Pacific? The change in shape is because of the Land Ordinance of 1785, which called for the surveying of land into square townships six miles on a side. Each square mile was a section of 640 acres. One of the 36 sections was set aside for a public school, four were given to Revolutionary War veterans as land bounties for their service. The remaining sections were then subdivided or sold whole to settlers and speculators. The starting point for all those squares, the Point of Beginning, was right here.
More precisely, on September 30th, 1785, Thomas Hutchins, first Geographer of the United States, started laying out the townships from a point 1112 feet south of here.
See? That geography degree gets used every once in a while.
The Jennings Randolph Bridge carries US-30, the Lincoln Highway, across the Ohio between East Liverpool and Chester, West Virginia. If you ever want to impress someone with bridge trivia, with a span of 745 feet, the Jennings Randolph is the longest simple truss bridge in North America.
It's the Fun Zone, the place where you can't hang out by police order, has an indoor skate park on the third floor, a western dance floor, dodge ball, karaoke, miniature golf and video games among other fun things. "Open for all School Aged Kids" it says on the sign hidden by one of the columns. One suspects the "School Aged Kids" part of the sign is directly connected to the "no hanging out" police order, in the neverending attempt to demonize teenagers rather than give them something to do. The Fun Zone has an unreadable myspace page.
But I digress from the real issue at hand...
What's going on with those window covers?
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