Postal Ink Carnage

[ReadyFireAim]

Here we go again.

This time from Goulet Pen Co.

The ink miraculously survived but the sample rack did not.

 

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[DarkAudit]

 

I was born in Bloomfield and grew up in Lawrenceville so I'm good as long as I stay in the triangle.

 

The North or South Hills can be a challenge for me.

I had a map taped to the visor years ago.

I can pretty much get from Morgantown to Jerry's Records with my eyes closed these days, but I will still run Google Maps or Waze just in case a backup on the Parkway results in a detour.

 

If I wasn't working Saturday night, I'd give Birmingham Pens a visit, but noon is bedtime.

[Runnin_Ute]

 

Well, I live in the North Hills (well, North Boroughs if you believe the banner in the local weekly paper my neighbor is now the publisher for). And I used to live in Highland Park, a block away from the King Estate, and a few blocks from the Zoo. But I don't know everything on the North Side (or even everything in the East End, for that matter); and large parts of the South Side and West End are foreign countries....

A number of years ago, on a lark, I went down Edgebrook Avenue from off Saw Mill River Boulevard (Rt. 51 South) and thought I was in the backwoods of West Virginia.... And I was still inside the city limits! And there used to be a car dealership ad on the radio where someone from either NYC or Boston (wasn't *quite* sure of what the accent was supposed to be) who is asking directions gets told "by some steel hunk with his 'silly Pittsburgheese' accent to 'go over some mountain, cross a bridge, and turn left where the Isaly's used to be....'!" My husband once heard someone -- who was NOT a native -- give directions to someplace based on what he was told, which actually *included* the phrase "turn where the Isaly's used to be", even though the guy didn't even know what Isaly's WAS; let alone where it had been located....

When we lived in Highland Park, we saw three different maps of the neighborhood: one showed our street, as is; one showed it going across the ravine at the end of the block (and through someone's driveway in the process) and up into Morningside; and one showed the stretch of Bryant Street on the other side of Negley Avenue dead-ending onto Negley (that of course didn't take into account the fact that when you get to Highland Avenue, Bryant jogs half a block; and if you're going the other direction, and cross Highland, you end up on Bryant Court, which is a dead end.... And then of course there's the intersection of Beechwood and Monitor, over in the Squirrel Hill/Greenfield area. Not to be confused with the intersection of Beechwood and Monitor. OR the intersection of Beechwood and Monitor.....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

From the sound of it sounds like our grid system would be a welcome sight......

 

All blocks start from the block (10 square acres) which the LDS Temple sits on. North Temple, SOuth Temple, West Temple and Main Street on the east. I live off 10600 South and between 500 and 600 East. One block south of Temple Square is 100 South. It gets a bit weird in the Avenues or some other areas though. But generally easy peasy to get around. Brigham Young did that right.... Wide streets - 132 feet when the city was laid out after the Mormon's arrived in 1847.

[ArjanD78]

This made me think about the movie SE7EN.

 

Haha. How brains make associations!