Just passing through East Berlin! Click on the first thumbnail to open the photo gallery. Enjoy! ~P.
Vintage Car Eye Candy in Biglerville PA
These vintage vehicles begged to be photographed. I couldn’t resist; the owners weren’t home, but I left my card in their door.
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Enjoyed these old car photos? Check out my junkyard photo shoot here—–>http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/03/05/junkyards/
Thanks for stopping by my blog! ~P.
FDNY Pumper Truck #233 in Biglerville PA
On my second trip to my friend’s cabin, I made a stop at this road side station to check out the fire truck. It’s a Mack truck and while I didn’t look for an exact date, I’d guess it is from the 1960’s. If I’m wrong and someone knows, write it in the comments! 😉
The old pumper truck is in bad shape. If someone had intentions of restoring this once beautiful truck, now wrecked and rusting away, they never got around to to.
The vintage Pepsi machines and gas pump was cool to see also.
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Hey, You Dropped Your Money
I was out late this afternoon snapping some photos as the sun was setting. I had my eyes on a few particular buildings, but I am easily distracted by anything that looks out of the ordinary. Some might say in York, that is everything.
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- This is eye-catching…is it a house or a place of worship?
- The inside is a wreck.
- Hello back at ya, pal!
- Can’t go wrong with steeples and clouds.
- Roosevelt TV’s building needs some love and attention.
- Bond Alley
- How cool are these house numbers!?
Just a little slice of York through my camera lens. A big thank you to the complete stranger who told me I dropped a $20 bill walking across Jo-Jo-Ma’s Polish Sausage parking lot. He could have said nothing and in less than a minute, been twenty bucks richer.
Who says people aren’t honest?!
~P.
Dear John~Again with the Control Issues
Dear John,
Time has flown by and summer has passed quickly. The season is changing and school is just a few days away.
You, however, haven’t changed a bit.
When you called Wednesday, the 14th, at 8:07 AM, and said I could have Tesla over the weekend, I requested getting her on Sunday, as Dale and I had actually made plans together, to go somewhere on a day-trip, maybe even overnight somewhere, you know, just him and I. It sounds like “no big deal” to someone like you, but to us it was a special, little, “over-nighter”.
I asked to get Tesla on Sunday, anytime, even at 5 PM like the summer schedule states, but have her go back on Tuesday at 7, or earlier. I was pretty much willing to go with whatever you said, beings a judge put you in charge and all. What the hell was that judge thinking? I just wanted to work this out between us.
So you suggest me picking Tesla up at 4 on Sunday and you retrieving her at 4 on Tuesday. I immediately said that was fine, and meant it. Sometimes I say “fine” to you just, because anything else would be inappropriate and you would most likely call the police.
Later, I’m guessing maybe Heather came home and heard we had agreed on the 4-4, Sunday to Tuesday agreement….let me consult my cellphone right now to be accurate….
1:15 PM Pic Message
Now mind you, I have a copy of this entire court order and don’t need you (and Heather) sending me pictures of the document. When we were talking about this weekend and before Tesla starts school, it was trying to arrange more time for Tesla to be with me. If you would like, I can take a picture of the court order where it states you should allow Tesla time with her mother beyond what is mandated. Actually, I posted a copy of the entire court order online, and if you want, refer to it by page number there in the future. That way, I won’t have to see Heather’s attempt of spelling Christmas and final decision to just write X-mas.
http://wp.me/p1j2Ur-QE <—custody order
At 1:27 PM I noticed your picture message and replied “We have an agreement.” Seriously John, we HAD a verbal agreement.
AT 1:29 PM You responded “The court order clearly states what I thought that’s why I offered you the weekend so I guess we will just follow the court order.”
At 1:35 I responded “John 4 on Sunday to 4 on Tuesday is fine. Why make a big deal out of what we already agreed on.”
You never responded to my text. I think I called once, maybe twice. Finally Tesla did call me Thursday and when I mentioned seeing her Sunday she immediately said she couldn’t come. Do you hear the sound of her voice when she has to tell me such things? Of course when you and I got on the phone you said I had my chance and passed. What the hell John?! Way to make it sound like I don’t want my child when you KNOW I do and you KNOW she is standing right there listening. So I say, “Fine, I’ll get her Friday and she can just go where ever we go.” Your response was exactly what I thought it would be…”I’ll let you know.”
What the hell do you mean you’ll let me know? I don’t hear back from you for another day making it clear I wasn’t getting her on Friday.
Way to screw with my weekend, which I’m sure you enjoy.
I had texted you three times Friday, trying to get an answer.
August 16th 8:22 AM “Time I can get TT Friday?”
1:31 PM “Are you letting TT come with me today?”
5:47 PM “Is Tesla allowed to come visit please?”
Finally, at 6:14 you text me this: “She said she like to stay here for the weekend.” You also aren’t taking my phone calls, making it clear I can’t talk to Tesla.
At 6:34 I wrote you “So can I have her at all before school starts? I’m sure she would like at least a day. Please ask her. Ty”
This morning I texted you at 8:54 AM “Are you going to let me see our daughter before school starts?”
At noon I texted you “Do you think ignoring me is appropriate?”
I still haven’t heard from you John and it is now Saturday night. I don’t get you and I don’t appreciate being ignored.
Your controlling behavior will be your downfall. Perhaps you should retake the kids first class because I don’t think you grasped a single concept of the “learning how to be a good co-parent for your child” program. http://girlboxer1970.com/2011/07/11/kids-first/
Will I see Tesla this weekend? Monday? Tuesday? Technically, you can make me wait until next Friday at 5 to see Tesla again.
Will you do that, propping yourself up with the court order as justification to keep Tesla to yourself?
How about giving the “court order” bullshit a rest? And if Tesla doesn’t want to visit with me, she is capable of telling me herself.
That way I will believe it, because I don’t believe even half the shit you tell me.
You and your usual ways.
~P.
Jo-Jo-Ma’s After Dark York PA
A random decision to stop at Jo-Jo-Ma’s on Roosevelt Ave was a pleasant experience. The restaurant is a bustling place of patrons, picking up orders to go, or just sitting with friends, enjoying a meal and beer. Neither Dale or I knew a single person, but as we relaxed at our table, enjoying the rambunctious nature of the place, people we knew entered through the door. We also met Antonio, who said he was the previous owner of Jo-Jo-Ma’s and also had owned Soap-N-Suds laundromat. I have no idea if he was telling the truth or just messing with me, but either way, he was happy to chat.
While I am far from fluent in Spanish, I could pick-up on conversations while we were eating. One gentleman left, but before exiting, he surprised his friends when he “compró tres jarras de cerveza para sus amigos!” or in English…hooked his buddies up with three pitchers of beer! That brought a rousing cheer and everyone was happy singing along with the jukebox, eating, drinking and being merry.
Live without fear…York has many restaurants worth stopping in for a taste of their home-cooking!
Oh, and their fried chicken is the bomb! ~P.
Historical Penn Commons York PA
I’ll admit it, I’ve never been to Penn Commons in my life. That changed last night. I’ve heard the stories of people being robbed, attacked, shot, etc. in the park area, but I’m a risk-taker. Interestingly, when I approached the Soldiers & Sailors monument with my camera in hand, the group of young men sitting nearby quietly walked or rode their bikes away from the lens. 😉
The Soldiers & Sailors monument is a striking sculpture in the round, the bronze work done by Bureau Brother’s Bronze Founders.
“In 1898 the towering Soldiers & Sailors statue, designed by the noted York-based Dempwolf architectural firm, was dedicated.
To this day, it remains the most visible York-area commemoration to those who served in the Civil War.”
“Shortly after the erection and dedication of the Solders and Sailors Monument June 15, 1898, the Order of Elks erected a rockery at a cost of $2,200. Vandals beheaded the elk in 1987, and, after receiving an estimate of $18,000 to repair it, the City of York decided to remove it.”
What a shame this had to be removed. If it is still hidden away, perhaps it could be restored and placed back in the park, on top of a high, nearly impossible to climb, column,
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- BIRDS ARE RUDE
- AMAZING DETAIL!
After exhausting every angle of the monument, I noticed a tiny stone house nearby and in shambles. Dale and I began taking guesses at what this house could have been used for. “It has a chimney so someone must have stayed inside.” Dale pointed out. It did have a chimney and did look like a miniature, well-made house. I guessed it was the park’s caretaker house, so tiny, it must have been prison-like to sit inside. Dale and I were both wrong.
“This blocky building in York, Pa.’s, Penn Park is weather beaten or, well, just beaten up. But when the Penn-Coates Memorial appeared on the cover of its dedication brochure on Sept. 25, 1926, it was a welcome sight. “The Common … was secured by gift from John Penn and John R. Coates, who, by their deed dated June 11, 1816 granted … the inhabitants of the Borough of York a certain tract or lot of land containing about 20 acres … and now used as a public common,” according to the dedication pamphlet. John Penn was the last proprietary governor of Pennsylvania and John Coates was his agent.”
“The grant also included two lots for a Potter’s Field, a burial ground for the indigent of the community. That land along College Avenue eventually became the location of the original Hannah Penn Junior High School and is now the parking lot and playground for St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. The brochure says the concept for the building came from a group of men who did not like the “small shanty used by Patrolman Charles F. Carr” that was in the park. “It was often remarked by the Penn Commoners that the cop should have better quarters than the humble shanty.” The Penn Common Community Association was formed to fund and build a new police station and rest area for the public. The $20,000 to build and furnish the structure was secured by public subscription.”
“The upper room of the building is for use as a public rest room and reading room. The police doing duty on the Common have desk and telephone in the rest room. A washstand and first aid equipment are there. The basement is equipped with a public convenience to be used under certain restrictions to be enforced by the policeman in charge.” (Back then “rest room” would have been just that, a place to rest. “Public convenience” would have been what today is called a “restroom.”) The columns and the plaques are no longer on the building.”
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- Holding my camera inside the basement window.
Is there any hope this building might be restored to its former glory before it crumbles? ~P.
References Jim McClure http://www.Yorkblog.com
Changes in the city of York PA
Changes are taking place in York City everyday, some for good and some not so good. It saddens me to see the beautiful architecture rot away.
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- Beautiful Oval Knob
- Hands Mosaic
- Newberry St Corner
- How many hands have turned this knob?
- Squirrel & Bird Mosaic
- 2013
- wood decay
- flower arches
- Water Meter?
- William Penn 2013
- Original York High School
- It always amused me to see toilet seats through the windows.
- Bottom of window
- Festival activities
- Coming soon!
Abandoned York County Prison PA
- If only the prison still looked like this photo!
The old prison looked to be secure, but I had no intentions of entering. Well, perhaps if the gate had been open and the door unlocked….
The structure is fierce in nature, but nature is over-taking this stately building. Any structure left unattended will eventually be consumed by Mother Nature. The visual effects of this take-over are stunning.
The photos from outside the prison are mine. The ones from inside were done by http://www.scottfrederickphotoblog.com in 2012.
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