My wife and I will be attending the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Elkins Park. Is this a safe area?
Question regarding Elkins Park
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Yes, quite safe, even for a Southerner
Yes, unless you are wearing a Braves hat.
Not for others after you arrive.
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Thanks Tom! But just to be to be clear, I am a "Damn Yankee". Which is a northerner who is not moving back north.
I grew up in Altoona, Pa.
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Wow. You are a Mountain Lion? I didn’t have that on the bingo card.?
Thanks Tom! But just to be to be clear, I am a "Damn Yankee". Which is a northerner who is not moving back north.
Yep. Alma Mater to Mike Reid, John Ebersole and others. I actually performed on the Beaver Stadium turf on Band Day with the AAHS Band. Back in the day, the Mt. Lions had some really good football teams. I have many fond memories from those days.
You bring back memories! I attended another school in that region and enjoyed Band Day as my first visit ot Beaver stadium in 1969.
I spent two years at Altoona campus (83-85)... Absolutely feel in love with that town. Spent two summers there as well. Damn near married a BG girl.?
Thanks Tom! But just to be to be clear, I am a "Damn Yankee". Which is a northerner who is not moving back north.
The Altoona Campus is one of the prettier branches. I also went 2 years there (71-73).
100% safe. I was born in Elkins Park and it’s been sunny and birds singing there ever since!
I believe Frank lloyd Wright designed that temple. Its an impressive building.
While my daughter was at PSU studying Landscape Architecture in the early 90's, she made several field trips to various projects of Wright’s, I don't know if she visited the Synagogue, I'll have to ask.
If you want to see an ugly building then go to the Frank Lloyd wright synagogue. The buildings worth seeing are the Elkins estate and Lynnwood hall on Ashbourn. I think Lynnwood hall was by Horace trumbour.
Did you get a chance to Google the elkins estate or Lynnwood hall?
Widener built Lynnwood hall. Widener u, Widener building in philly, Widener library at Harvard Wideners went down with the titanic. Lynnwood hall was at one time the largest home in america.
I was there for a year in the early 80's and absolutely hated the town.
The campus and dorms were ok but it just always seemed so dark and gloomy there. Winter semester was just the pits.
Fortunately I got up to main campus after 4 terms.
That was the issue with a lot of his designs. Looked great but hard to maintain. We've seen that with one of the buildings at tOSU here in town--Wexner Center. Cool design but many, many flaws, including leaks from the get go. And the original design/blueprints that had the urinals in the building facing outward on the outside wall of the bathroom. Buddy of mine was QC on the cement etc. and told us. They did not figure it out right away because the design was so modern and because it was an art gallery that they thought it might have been intentional.
The paper mills in Tyrone used to provide a lovely smell if the winds were right, seems like the winds were always right.
Sadly, many of those mills, factories, and machine shops in Blair, Bedford, and Huntingdon counties no longer exist, as they employed a large number of locals. Even sadder, not many other sources of reliable employment replaced them.
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