Is The East Coast As Good As They Say?

[mso489]

Anyone ever get to Totonos at Coney Island for pizza? It was a classic place. They got burnt out about ten years ago, and I'm not sure they reopened. Nathan's hot dogs near Broadway was a nice after show place for quick and not expensive. I was an enlisted Navy guy and my woman friend was a young reporter, and that was about the right deal. Next day we got a Christmas tree and a dry green paint encrusted bucket off the street for a stand. When she went to work, I rode the Staten Island ferry in the winter.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Are you a cigar or something??

Huh??

Just more tropical than winter.

 

[olkofri]

Huh??

Just more tropical than winter.

Come visit:


Down by the Farm

Bring Cosmic along with you.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Come visit:


Down by the Farm

Bring Cosmic along with you.

Too desolate, this would be me.

 

[olkofri]

Too desolate, this would be me.

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Eeeek! I dunno what'd get me first there: the heat or the heart attack from all the bugs and snakes crawling in there. ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Eeeek! I dunno what'd get me first there: the heat or the heart attack from all the bugs and snakes crawling in there. ?

 

[unadoptedlamp]

 

[Moonbog]

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and moved to Central Virginia about 15 years ago. There is very little I miss about California - Monterey/Carmel is the only thing I can think of - and much prefer Virginia. I now live about 30 minutes from Shenandoah National Park and the view of the Shenandoah Valley in the Fall is absolutely stunning. I love the four seasons and the overall quality of life is significantly higher out here in Central Virginia.

Shenandoah Valley is stunning in the fall. Great part of the East Coast for sure.

 

[Moonbog]

Living in Da-Bronx, back in my salad days....on more than a few occasions... my friends and I dropped a pretty good hunk of money chowing down on the food served at Katz's. I rarely get the chance to get down into Manhattan....nor, do I want to go there anymore, but years ago it was quite a nice change of pace to drop in at Katz's instead of the same old pizza joints that I frequented. Now, NYC pizza, is some of the best...but pastrami on rye!... no comparison. Back then, I also had a cast-iron stomach, could stay out all night and go straight to work the next day without sleeping, and without any problem.

Ah....sweet bird of youth!...

Dude, that's pretty much how I feel. 100% agree. My salad days were the 80s and 90s maybe to around 2004, but that would be stretching it. And I get the iron stomach part too. Eating and drinking your way across the city, getting home at 4 a.m. or later and being in work by 9. That was awesome stuff. I seldom get to Manhattan these days myself. Once or twice a year, maybe. I do hit Arthur Avenue once a year and sometimes hit Queens for a Mets game and then hit that Flushing China Town which is amazing as hell.

 

[anotherbob]

I always say you can put another layer on but once you've hit naked you can't take anything off. A reason that proves winter is better then summer.

 

[Moonbog]

I always say you can put another layer on but once you've hit naked you can't take anything off. A reason that proves winter is better then summer.

Funny, I think it rather proves the opposite.

 

[olkofri]

I always say you can put another layer on but once you've hit naked you can't take anything off. A reason that proves winter is better then summer.

That's basically what I tell all the ones bitching about the winter here.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I always say you can put another layer on but once you've hit naked you can't take anything off. A reason that proves winter is better then summer.

I always wear slacks, a tshirt, and a button up collared shirt. In winter I add much more. Cold hurts my arthritis and knee implant. Heat is more bearable than pain and I haven't had my air conditioning on all year. My furnace however was just turned on.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

Anyone ever get to Totonos at Coney Island for pizza? It was a classic place. They got burnt out about ten years ago, and I'm not sure they reopened. Nathan's hot dogs near Broadway was a nice after show place for quick and not expensive. I was an enlisted Navy guy and my woman friend was a young reporter, and that was about the right deal. Next day we got a Christmas tree and a dry green paint encrusted bucket off the street for a stand. When she went to work, I rode the Staten Island ferry in the winter.

I was a more an L&B Spumoni Gardens kind of guy - my brother used to eat Totonos and Nathans

 

[goldenmole]

Always been slightly jealous that you have a continental sized country with almost all climate zones covered, and where you can basically choose what suits you best. While it is relatively easy (thanks to the EU) to move and live in different parts of Europe, in reality the language barrier and the differences in job markets/systems etc. are making moving around in Europe a bit more of a challenge. I for one lived in Germany, Austria, Scotland, England and now Denmark. Would prefer a warmer or at least more continental climate (with cold winters and warm summers). Denmark just has 6-7 months of 0-7/8 C with a lot of rain, wind and darkness. Anyway: more on topic: I often wondered why some areas are famous for their autumn colors, while other areas with broad-leaved forests are not. I suspect it is to do with the tree species (how it colors), and it needs a fairly uniform tree cover (with the same species dominant).

 

[anotherbob]

Funny, I think it rather proves the opposite.

I think you're hinting at the one thing I do like about summer. Though it has nothing to do with what I am wearing. Though pro tip if you ask right you can people to wear what ever you want, now figuring out the right way to ask is a confusing and mind boogling thing even when it works.

 

[anotherbob]

I always wear slacks, a tshirt, and a button up collared shirt. In winter I add much more. Cold hurts my arthritis and knee implant. Heat is more bearable than pain and I haven't had my air conditioning on all year. My furnace however was just turned on.

I sweat so profusely that summer is just gross and uncomfortable. Every single time that fall hits my walking easily range expands so much. Though honestly you know what I love the best about winter, other people they move like they don't want to be there.

 

[sablebrush52]

We do have seasons in California, make no mistake, but they're subtler. The basic clue to when Winter is coming is that women add an extra square inch of clothing.

 

[anotherbob]

Anyway: more on topic: I often wondered why some areas are famous for their autumn colors, while other areas with broad-leaved forests are not. I suspect it is to do with the tree species (how it colors), and it needs a fairly uniform tree cover (with the same species dominant).

it's kind of like talking about what makes one painting great and another not so great. There are so many factors some really subtle. The angle and quality of the light is big the type of trees and variety of colors and shades. The densities of leaves and trees effect how the light disperses. Somehow all those things come together in a way that sometimes could be called magical. It's really the kind of thing you have to see with your own eyes and honestly with your own soul to really get. There are spots I could take you, that would increase your chances of falling in love (which is why I'm not taking you to those spots), because they are that sublimely beautiful.

 

[sablebrush52]

often wondered why some areas are famous for their autumn colors, while other areas with broad-leaved forests are not.

When I was shooting in Vermont, I asked that question of the local bank president, who was taking me around to scout locations. His answer, which I've since heard from others, is that the change in color relates to the sudden drop in temperature. There may be something to that as we followed the wave of changing color across the state.