At 06:32 PM 8/5/2011, you wrote:
I was riding past the Green Line this afternoon and saw the parking
spaces on the 43rd Street side blocked off with sawhorses and the
cars replaced with tables and chairs.
What's up with that?
Philadelphia's First Parklet
At 10:21 AM 10/21/2009, Dan Widyono wrote:
Take plastic bags to your local chain grocery store or IKEA where
they accept them for recycling.
Dan W.
FWIW, IKEA no longer has a large recycle center so go elsewhere if
you are looking to get rid of light bulbs, batteries or grocery
bags.
At 08:48 AM 4/21/2005, Michael Hesson wrote:
While you're out of the neighborhood, you might also try Taqueria
Veracruzana, across the street from Garibaldi.
The Taqueria is great. I also enjoy Rio Bravo right down the block.
-Ben
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At 03:39 PM 4/19/2005, Dan Myers wrote:
As a side note, I have been asking my Uncle (who owns most of the KFC's
and Taco Bells you are referring to) to put one in University city. He was
having a hard time with Penn wanting only family-based businesses around.
Well, there's a problem with that.
At 10:29 AM 4/13/2005, Susan Jacobson wrote:
Scrunch the Cat (who is feeling much better today, thank you) would like to
legalize Wisconsin legiuslator hunting!
Ben the tax payer would like to see more cats off the street and if this is
what it takes, so be it.
-Ben
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At 01:17 PM 2/22/2005, Susan Jacobson wrote:
In Phildadelphia, not only can you carry your semi-automatic firearm into the
movies, but apparently no more than 10 women may live in one house together.
I learned this from one of my students who is in a fraternity. More than 10
women = brothel. This
At 03:51 PM 2/18/2005, S. Sharrieff Ali wrote:
Sorry, but very few people from around the city know
anything about Marigold and RX. The two restaurants need
more than our community to survive, they can't even serve
breakfast during the week.
Well, I think part of the not serving breakfast comes
At 04:04 PM 2/18/2005, Andrew Diller wrote:
Mmmm, Sam and I hit RX almost every day while they had breakfast... it was
only the coming of the GL that sounded the final death-knell for RX
breakfast. They had excellent lattes and great sausages m m
m. They had it going for a long
At 10:58 AM 2/11/2005, Mark Krull wrote:
What's that???
I'm guessing that the that is the Farmers's market on 43rd street that is
the subject of the e-mail and shows up in your quote.
-Ben
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At 10:57 AM 2/4/2005, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
Of course, she
[Jainie Blackwell] doesn't have to listen to anybody if she keeps running
unopposed.
Do you or anyone think that anyone has a chance against her? What
about if they don't fit in to the majority demographic in her
region. One of the guys
William H. Magill
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:26:28 -0800
Has there been?
I have not seen any increase in crime in the past several
years.
Quite the contrary, from my point of view, it has decreased
significantly.
And have seen no crime take place in the past 60 days.
As for a recent spate of crime, I
At 09:48 AM 1/31/2005, Sarah Scheckter wrote:
sarah - age 26 - have lived in the neighborhood for about 4 years. :)
Glad to see I'm not the youngest!
Ben -27 (28 in 21 days), been here in West Philly/University City/Powelton
Village for 5.5 years.
-Ben
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At 03:51 PM 1/27/2005, William H. Magill wrote:
They have a picture of 41st and Chester on their Properties page.
http://www.poselmanagement.com/properties_ucity.html
Does it really look that attractive?
The last time I remembered seeing it, it still looked like the warehouse
it was.
Last
At 10:17 AM 1/24/2005, Andrew Diller wrote:
You should be asking why she was taken to Jefferson Emergency room, and
not HUP, if you are looking for a conspiracy here.
Surprisingly I can answer this. My friend who is a social worker here at
Penn said that Jefferson has a much better rape
At 08:59 AM 12/10/2004, Vincent/Roger wrote:
About
a week ago someone mentioned an alternative company that could provide
all of the above services at a good price. I think the gist of the
message was that they were installed in a local apartment building.
I've lost track of this message and
At 10:28 AM 12/7/2004, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
The Carpenters
Union is picketing outside of our soon-to-be bowling alley.
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/strikes1.jpg
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/strikes2.jpg
Nobody would talk to me, but my guess is they're hiring
At 11:48 AM 12/7/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is your biggest issue? Scab labor?
Over-Unionization of the city/state which leads to everything being much
more unaffordable. It is possible to get a good wage and not be part of a
Union. Unions had their day (and a few actually do still
At 01:07 PM 12/7/2004, Clinton, J. Scott wrote:
If they laid off all these people, they could afford to run septa and
probably have a surplus.
SEPTAs problems are much greater than the cost of their labour. While every
Philadelphian has their stories of rude SEPTA workers, most of them do their
At 01:00 PM 12/7/2004, Brian Siano wrote:
And pray tell, what is _your_ salary, and can you justify it when others
are willing (and capable) of doing your job for less?
My salary is not enough but that doesn't mean I think I should Unionize my
job classification to get more money and yes I can
At 01:38 PM 12/7/2004, Brian Siano wrote:
You're telling me that, rather than get more money, you would follow
principle and _not_ unionize your job classification? This doesn't sound
as though you're working for your own self-interest.
I'm not totally dumb, of course I'd rather have more money
At 02:32 PM 12/7/2004, Clinton, J. Scott wrote:
I'd like to think that too, but
do you shop at Wal-Mart? A lot of people are starting to make a
distinction between minimum wage and living
wage. Personally, I believe that my earnings
impart a responsibility upon me to use those monies wisely...a
At 03:18 PM 12/7/2004, Brian Siano wrote:
So the yardstick we're using for determing pay scales is the _intent_ of
the employee to make the job a career.
As for your comment that many of the problems are people believing that
their job at Wal-mart should be something to support their family,
At 01:04 PM 12/3/2004, you wrote:
The 2:00am chase??? The 10+ car chase I saw was around 8:30pm. Is this a
case of misreporting (ie changed facts to try and tease out people who
might falsely claim to know something) or is there still something we're
missing?
It sure was a busy night in the
At 09:31 AM 12/3/2004, Jonathan Cass wrote:
Did I hear correctly that Campus Apartment has its own private network which
provides very cheap broadband/telephone/cable service if you happen to live
within the boundaries of the network? Bill, do you know anything about
this?
Yes, you did.
At 12:35 PM 12/1/2004, Bill Sanderson wrote:
Just as a counterpoint. I recently took our beagle to the Vet school...
Much of it has to do with when/where at the Vet school you go. Craig's
message sounded much more like what I saw when I went to the Vet ER vs what
I've heard about if you make
At 08:59 AM 11/30/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it weren't for Penn's dismal record in top-down planning for its
commercial spaces, its horrible rate of failures, its revolving door for
one business after another that make no market sense ... I'd assume the
following was a spoof.
Al Krigman
At 11:05 AM 11/23/2004, Dubin, Elisabeth wrote:
That
sounds more like the cabbie's fault (because he should know better than
to give people the opportunity to jump out into the bike lane). At
least theoretically, right?
It depends and is hard to tell from the info given. If the student
just got
At 10:52 AM 11/23/2004, Katherine Schultz wrote:
Think about what you just asked him. did you not see him park? You're
suggesting that a biker is responsible for looking at parked cars and
predicting when the passengers will open their doors in addition to paying
attention to all the moving
Is there anyway to change the list so the default reply-to is
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-Ben
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At 02:35 PM 11/23/2004, Charles H. Buchholtz wrote:
I've configured my system to remove duplicate messages. Perhaps you
can do that with yours. I did it first to avoid dupes of messages
posted to both PFSNI and UClist, but it also clears out dupes of
messages sent to the list and directly to me.
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Subject: [UC] Well, maybe Eric's leaving wasn't such a
disaster for UC after all
John Fenton of UCD just sent me this:
Crime in University City Year to Date
Violent Crime is
At 07:34 PM 11/18/2004, Wilma de Soto wrote:
Frankly, why should we create MORE places for MORE kids to play video arcade
games? (Element or no!)
If there is a need, why not. (I don't know that I think there's a need but
that's not the point.) However, the bridge is one of the few movie
At 08:48 AM 11/19/2004, Clinton, J. Scott wrote:
regarding the regulars at the bridge: visit the riverview and see a film
there sometime. You will come running back to The Bridge with open arms.
I do regularly go to the Riverview and don't come running back to the
Bridge. The price
At 12:28 PM 11/18/2004, Mark Krull wrote:
This Arcade would not fit the upscale image and could bring
in the element
-Mark
Have you seen a movie there? The element is already there talking on
their phones during the movie, shouting at the screen, letting their 2 year
olds cry all though rated R
I had them in my last apt. They were called (if I remember
correctly), forced air heat. They worked okay but slowly.
Also, they were VERY expensive to run. 1 bedroom apt ~ $150 per
month leaving the thermostat at ~71.
-Ben
At 04:18 PM 11/12/2004, Mario Giorno wrote:
Clinton,
I've seen
units
I was number one hundred ninety-something at 9:40 am at the Garden
Courts. I agree, they were very unprepared. What sucked even more was
that they only had 3 booths and one was broken. There definitely should
have been more booths. I am told that at 7 am it was a 2 hour wait.
-Ben
You
At 01:37 PM 11/2/2004, Turner,Kathleen wrote:
Clarification on this: there are two separate divisions that vote at
this location. One of them may be entirely made up of that building
(although I don't think so because I saw friends who live elsewhere
standing in that line), but it isn't that the
At 11:46 AM 10/25/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe, but the ultimate responsibility is for the owner / manager to train
employees properly and I am not sure the person that meet them at the door
was
not a manager or owner
Walter, I agree with you completely. Further, I was always told a
At 10:15 AM 8/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone in West Philly have any suggestions for alternatives to Urban
Cableworks? We currently have service through them on 3 sets, at $13.50/mo
(this is an unadvertised rate) which gives us only a very few channels
(ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, DUTV,
At 08:29 AM 8/10/2004, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
What is it with West Philadelphia? Why do people toss their cats out? What
are the chances of the Vet School sponsoring a spay and release program in
the hizzle? In any event, a kind soul working at the Ralston House found
four new kittens living under a
At 01:43 PM 7/16/2004, Pete Coyle wrote:
I think this is good advice from admin
If the subscribers of a list mostly become uninterested in a subject, they
hopefully will ignore the subject, and posters on the subject will quickly
become silent as they perceive they have no audience. If a lengthy
At 01:51 PM 3/18/2004, Bill Sanderson wrote:
That article cites a number of other possible reasons for the closing--you
certainly were careful to pick and choose.
If I remember correctly (and I may not), didn't they say that Shula's 2
couldn't turn a profit because of the demands of the Union
Hi All,
Anyone know of a good moving company that services the area? (I'd be
moving from Powelton Village to ~47th and Spruce).
I'd prefer someone insured.
Thanks,
Ben
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_I have read with some interest others posting about the difficulty in
_finding a parking spot in west philly. My neighbors have recently discovered
_a solution: park in my driveway. I came home from work yesterday to discover
_a beige station wagon merrily parked in my driveway. Thinking perhaps
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Gail Defendorf wrote:
_This is what the Office of Community Housing has on it's website about
_the Enhanced Mtg. Program:
SNIP
_gail
If you look though, their site has not been updated in the longest time.
Their current edition newsletter is Sept 2002, their events
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Mark Krull wrote:
_A friend of mine who works for Penn was eligible for
_the enhanced mortgage program. I find this curious indeed
_-Mark
Who said they were eligible? I'm eligible by what their website says.
Again, the problem is that it's not been updated in who knows how
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