54Light, this one’s for you:
www.roadsidefans.com/features/taconic-parkway-ny
And just for fun:
I’ll tell you, for sheer fun Lady Firestorm and I would rather go to a good diner than the finest cordon bleu restaurant around.
Firelock, thanks so much! I’ve eaten in the Martindale and Taghkanic many’s the time. The Brighton diner on Main street in Poughkeepsie had a menu five pages long and you could get a coffee and a piece of pie or you could get a whole lobster. Amazing!
You’re welcome! I was sure you’d enjoy that trip down memory lane and was hoping you’d come back to this thread to find it.
Too bad the actual “Roadside” magazine’s not around anymore, it was a lot of fun.
I was away for a while. I recall the reading the Roadside paper in the Red Hook diner. It was a small newspaper at the time. There’s only one old style diner that I know of in Canada and it’s in Montreal but was originally from New Jersey I recall. Here we have burger and souvlaki joints in storefronts along the streets. Don’t ever make your order by saying you want a cheeseburger with onions and lettuce or whatever. The counter guys will always interrupt you with, “Chizbooger!” Then, when it’s almost ready they say, “What you like?” Then you tell them.
As an old Jersey guy I’m tempted to sat “What do Canadians know about making burgers anyway?” But I have to say some of the best burgers I’ve ever had were in the restaurant of the Harold Hotel in Placentia Newfoundland, of all places.
So I’d better keep my mouth shut!
Oh, and the seafood wasn’t to be beat either!
Yeah I hear the fish sticks ain’t bad on the Rock. Hamburgers, you say? There used to be a place here that had burgers with avocado, pineapple, 3 kinds of bacon, various cheeses, onions, lettuce, 4 kinds of pickles, and I don’t know what else. It was only $100.00. Ridiculous stunt food like the weird stuff you see at a county fair.
Fish sticks? Perish the thought sir, I’m talking about cod and lobster fresh out of the water, and cod tongues with scruncheons (yummy!), I’ll pass on the seal flipper pie. I love seals and don’t want any of them dead to grace a dinner plate.
Besides, the polar explorer Matthew Henson once said at a National Geographic dinner “I’ll have a steak! Seal meat’s OK if you don’t have anything else!”
And once they start piling Bugs Bunny food on it it ain’t a burger anymore! As the old lady said “Where’s the beef?!”
Never heard of a burger with carrots. “Eennhh, what’s up, Doc?” Now to really get off the subject, know what I read not long ago? Bugs’s character was based on…wait for it… Clark Gable! Clark’s easy nonchalance in " It Happened One Night" was the model for Bugs. Even if it ain’t true, it ought to be!
But, back to diners, I could go for a burger and home fries at the Taghkanic right about now with a cool one to wash it down and that’s a fact!
I know what you mean brother, I could do with a visit to Hiram’s Roadstand in Fort Lee NJ for a couple of burgers, fries, and a beer, but they’re 350 miles away!
I’ll just have to be patient.
Hey Firelock, it is not so much the heat itself that wrecks old books but the dryness. Try keeping a pan of water in the room or closet with your old books, and refill it as it evaporates. It might help.
Thanks for the concern David, but my books are fine, my house is climate controlled, heat, humidity, air conditioning, so I don’t have a problem with keeping the books from damage.
The problem I mentioned earlier with finding old books in good condition here in Virginia, and the rest of the South as well, is the double-whammy of heat and humidity. It just killed the ones produced prior to the days of air-conditioning. Up North, although it does get hot and humid, it just didn’t seem to be as much of a problem. Summer in the North is basically a three month season, down here in the Richmond area it can be a six month season.
As an aside, I’ve got a book on the Revolutionary War correspondence between the various movers and shakers in New Jersey published in 1847 (!) that’s in such good condition you can still feel the impressions from the printing press on the pages! Found that one up North, it goes without saying. It never would have survived in that shape down here without many, many tons of luck.
The friends of the Burlington Depot is hosting guided tours of the depot building this Saturday in order to showcase the facility’s ongoing renovations.
http://www.kbur.com/2016/06/23/friend-of-the-burlington-depot-to-hold-guided-tours/
In Chicago, along Congress Street near Wells. Now the Tutto Italiano restaurant, looks like a former RI coach.
Cash arrived Wednesday to cover finishing touches in the renovation of Burlington’s train depot building.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority awarded Burlington $75,000 through its 2017 Main Street Iowa Bricks and Mortar Challenge grant program.
In 2016, renovations started in the building’s main hall. Work finished in March. The main room has been restored to much of its former glory, but a few sections need extra cash to complete.
http://www.thehawkeye.com/news/20171116/burlington-awarded-75000-grant-for-depot-work