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Re: Steely Dan AJA Best vinyl version..
For multiple reasons, I'm guessing this picture is NOT truly Scott'sThis is the best version of any Steely Dan album.
jdjohn
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Re: You’re doing it wrong…
motorstereo wrote: »^^^^^Knowing the amount of time my bil put into his scale model $2,500 doesn't seem that far out of whack for a collector piece.
Good looking kit... My Titanic model is detailed with rust from the real ship. It sits on a base made from wood decking and trim from her sister, the Olympic.
nooshinjohn
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Re: Veri Fi SnubWay......don't listen to music, experience it!
Is that SnubWay in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Clipdat
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Re: Something our grandkids won’t believe we had/did?
^^^ Ours were kind of similar to this one. Pretty crude.
As a 10 year old in 1965, I remember finding scrap lumber, old wagon and tricycle wheels, nails, screws, misc. bolts and some rope for steering your unpowered go-kart. The neighborhood boys would race them down a less-trafficked hilly side street. For many of us this was our first foray into tools and assembly skills. It was fun, kept us busy, but could be frustrating for a kid at times.
aprazer402
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Re: World Cafe Live - Philadelphia
OK, so, I haven't been there in a real long time but IIRC, it was called something else for a while before it became World Cafe Live. It had something to do with the WXPN radio station that it was a part of back then. I think Comcast manages it now which is why it's got the "Live" moniker. Everything in the city with "Live" in the name seems to have a Comcast connection.
Anyway, that doesn't detract from it at all. It's a small, intimate setting and while it's not like The TLA (think MTV Unplugged sessions kind of stage) where the stage is pretty much in the center and there's only 1 level of seating for a very intimate venue it is intimate. Intimate like when I went to see Norah Jones and sneezed in the middle of her talking and she pointed at me and said "Bless you, handsome!" and winked at me.
It's on or right next to U of Penn's campus in University City. That's a real nice part of city with several schools clustered there including U of Penn (Ivy League), Drexel (a top tech school in the country) and the famed Temple University with a half a dozen more smaller schools nearby.
If you have to stay in the area overnight, stay in University City, everything is very walkable with tons of restaurants and bars/taverns.
I'll go ahead and recommend The Study
https://www.thestudyatuniversitycity.com/?
Swanky joint, good ratings and not too bad on price for the area
If you're only going to be in town for a night and need a bite to eat outside of the World Cafe then wander over to The New Deck Tavern
https://www.newdecktavern.com/
College bar, stellar food, can be hard to get in to so reservations are recommended if you're sitting down. But that's where my database professor in college would have our final reviews my senior year.
There's a ton to do in Philly if you're staying for a weekend too.
But one thing I do know for sure is that I've been to almost every concert venue in Philly, big and small and none of them are bad. You'll have a great experience no matter what show you go to there.
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Anyway, that doesn't detract from it at all. It's a small, intimate setting and while it's not like The TLA (think MTV Unplugged sessions kind of stage) where the stage is pretty much in the center and there's only 1 level of seating for a very intimate venue it is intimate. Intimate like when I went to see Norah Jones and sneezed in the middle of her talking and she pointed at me and said "Bless you, handsome!" and winked at me.
It's on or right next to U of Penn's campus in University City. That's a real nice part of city with several schools clustered there including U of Penn (Ivy League), Drexel (a top tech school in the country) and the famed Temple University with a half a dozen more smaller schools nearby.
If you have to stay in the area overnight, stay in University City, everything is very walkable with tons of restaurants and bars/taverns.
I'll go ahead and recommend The Study
https://www.thestudyatuniversitycity.com/?
Swanky joint, good ratings and not too bad on price for the area
If you're only going to be in town for a night and need a bite to eat outside of the World Cafe then wander over to The New Deck Tavern
https://www.newdecktavern.com/
College bar, stellar food, can be hard to get in to so reservations are recommended if you're sitting down. But that's where my database professor in college would have our final reviews my senior year.
There's a ton to do in Philly if you're staying for a weekend too.
But one thing I do know for sure is that I've been to almost every concert venue in Philly, big and small and none of them are bad. You'll have a great experience no matter what show you go to there.
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Jstas
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Re: Something our grandkids won’t believe we had/did?
Freedom
IF you are wondering what I mean; getting up in the morning, eating some crappy sugary cereal, watching cartoons, then get on my bike and not be back until god knows when. Drinking water from neighbor's hoses and eating carrots picked from their gardens (I can still feel the grit and crunching from the dirt that wasn't fully cleaned). Now days, don't go here, don't do that. It's too dark, it's too sunny out. (Not what we do with our kids but so many parents do with theirs). That's the type of freedom kids now days will never understand. Being outside all day, getting yelled at by an old lady because we decided to run under her sprinkler when it was hot. Playing video games on our C64 when it rained but the moment it stopped, outside. Using our imaginations. Something kids these days will never understand. That's the freedom I'm talking about.
Willow
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
50 year old Hoya. Was tiny when the Wife got it. Nice aroma when they pop. A chore to repot.
SCompRacer
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
Lucretia Jane Tucker, soon to be 98, is one of the few remaining "Rosie the Riveters," women who worked in factory jobs during World War II
(She doesn't look nearly 98)
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Lucretia Jane Tucker, left, her mother, Iris, and her sister, Betty. left their Alabama home in 1943 to help build ships in Savannah
Upon arrival in Savannah, the Tuckers went straight to training. They learned to be welders, doing their part to build “Liberty Ships,” the 441-foot-long workhorses that transported supplies across the ocean. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a ship aficionado, called the craft “a real ugly duckling.” The Savannah shipyard went on to build 88 ducklings and the U.S., after perfecting prefabrication, constructed 2,700 Liberties overall.
The job was six days a week, 10 hours a day. It was hard and could be dangerous. Jane worked with teams of eight to 12 women on slabs welding vertical steel walls, which were then hoisted into place by a crane. They wore heavy boots mid-calf, long-sleeve shirts, thick pants and suede gloves. If you were welding above your head, you had to wear a heavy leather jacket for protection.
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(Story from AJC. It interested me because my aunt went to Nashville to work on planes as a "Rosie the Riveter". Although she was from Georgia, Nashville was where she met my uncle as a soldier prior to deployment. Growing up, I lived next door)
BlueBirdMusic
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