Penn State, our world, myself. Everything is going to be fine. Life is good.
I am optimistic about the future.
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Damn Bob....I had such high hopes for you as it appears you did start drinking after all. 
I am pessimistic about the past, and past is prologue so far as human nature goes.
I am optimistic that this thread will not disappear like the one about street takeovers.
Classic April Fools....someone had to state the obvious... Sid Finch says helloPenn State, our world, myself. Everything is going to be fine. Life is good.
Penn State, our world, myself. Everything is going to be fine. Life is good.
it is called an open and a free society to exprees ones opinion but only when the powers agree with the thought. other wise they are gone with the wind ( but not foregotten)
I’ve given up on trying to predict the past.
I see what you did, Zeno....
(Lirpa Yadsloof) backwards – spells April Fools Day!
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"Gone with the Wind"
Frankly.....
"My dear, I don't give a damn."
“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
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Penn State, our world, myself. Everything is going to be fine. Life is good.
Bob, to answer your question after the thread being rudely shut down by The McA team, 'if anyone has been involved in or up close to riots'.....yes, I have.
In 69' I accepted a position in the Bridge Department with Michael Baker Jr. in Harrisburg. I lived at the Harrisburg YMCA located on the corner of Front and North streets for around 5-months while trying to find an affordable apartment for my wife Kar and our 1-yr old Tommy.
During my stay at the 'Y', riots broke out in the City of Harrisburg, and we were under curfew at 7:00pm (IIRC). Typically, after having a meal at a nearby restaurant I'd sit on the stone steps of the 'Y' with other residents and listen to the evening events in the city. Helicopters buzzing roof tops and streets with their search lights scanning the landscape below, the locals were throwing "Molotov cocktails" and setting fire to businesses in their own black community. I do recall a TV repair service was on the roof top of a 5-6 story residential along Front Street in northern Harrisburg attending to the rooftop antennas, one of the repairmen was shot from a distance.
While residing at the 'Y', I befriended a construction bricklayer from Colorado by the name of Richie. Every couple of weeks after my workday finished, I'd drive Richie to York for his back-home newspapers. He had some deal with a York news shop which collected his hometown papers.
When we approached the city limits of York, we were like--YIKES-. The city was under Marshal law, not a good scene, solders w/firearms everywhere and troop carriers w/machineguns mounted to the vehicles, really some serious shit happening. Needless to say, we did not get hometown papers that day.
New research sheds more light on racial violence in 1969 Harrisburg | Column - pennlive.com
https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/20...sts-but-its-shrinking-pennlive-editorial.html
On a lighter note:
My companies' boss-owner sent me this message this morning:
Tom,
Congratulations and a big thank you.
Today is the 40th anniversary of your working for ______ _______
No one will ever beat that – even if they wanted to.
Thanks a million for your loyalty and great work over the years.
We are working on a little something special to thank you in a more interesting way.
M__
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I lived in York then, and started kindergarten two months later. Charlie Robertson, later voted mayor, was ultimately tried for the 1969 death of Lillie Belle Allen, which sparked the riots. He was acquitted. This was like in the 2000’s. In the early 80’s he coached a rival American Legion baseball team (York IBEW). After we beat his team and went on to regionals he came to one of our games and sat at the top of the bleachers behind the fence to Smalls field, York’s football field, and loudly rooted against at us, hurling insults at players. He was always a top-rung a$$ho1e, and I’m certain that he had a role in that 1969 event.
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