L.A. is the only big city I've ever spent more than a day in that I haven't ever used public transportation. My personal favorite is BART in San Francisco.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "cat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:39 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 37611] Re: Another distraction build ... > > Paul McCool wrote: >> Yes, if they had invested in upgrading the P-E instead of tearing it out, >> L.A. wouldn't have anything like the traffic issues it does now. >> >> A great Red Car story: >> >> In 1943, my father-in-law was 9-years-old and lived with his folks in >> Costa >> Mesa. One day, his mother gave him some money and told him to go to >> Sears >> in Santa Ana and buy some new pants for school. Again, he was 9 years >> old. >> He took the Red Car into Santa Ana, but didn't find any pants he liked, >> so >> he got back on the Red Car, rode all the way into downtown L.A. and went >> to >> the big Sears store on Broadway, bought his pants and headed home, >> without >> his mother knowing where he'd been until she saw the sales receipt. Let >> a >> 9-year-old try that today.... > > First they would have to avoid getting mugged on the various buses they > would have to take and then it would be a L O N G day. I used to live > over the hill in the valley and it took me 2 1/2 hours by bus to reach > CBS Television City in LA. I could drive it in 25 minutes. no wonder > people do not take the bus here. At least trains do not get stuck in > traffic. Got to love the subway, though. It is one thing that works in > LA =^-^= > > cat > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
