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The week before last, my wife and I traveled to St. Robert, MO. In this area, US Route 66 runs parallel to Interstate 44. About a mile from the hotel on Route 66, there is an unincorporated place called Uranus, Missouri, with a tourist attraction, the Uranus Fudge Factory. One item of interest is an antique fire engine, Uranus Fire Dept. Engine No. 4. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
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My wife and I took a road trip from New Jersey to visit our daughter in St. Robert, Missouri before her move to Texas. On the way there, and on the way back, we stayed in Dublin, Ohio. In Dublin, OH, my wife and I went to Trader Joe's. We bought a "Make your own 6-pack". I included four beers; my wife included two hard seltzers. We went to Walmart's in St. Robert. I bought a six-pack of Piney River Black Walnut. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 Earlier this week, I was in Washington, DC. I traveled by train, and spent most of my time in the L'Enfant Plaza area. From this trip, I'm posting pictures that show open businesses and people moving about. I am cautiously optimistic concerning COVID-19. Eateries on the lower level at Union Station. Entrance to the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station and the businesses on the ground floor of the nearby office building Boarding area at Union Station My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
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Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 I just returned home after a short trip to Washington, DC. The last time that I was there was in November of 2019, months before the COVID-19 Crisis. I had no trouble finding a hotel room. I noticed that many of the restaurants were no longer open. I traveled by train: New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line between Absecon and Philadelphia; Amtrak between Philadelphia and Washington, DC. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 As today’s Zoom teleconference ended, someone remarked that we will reconvene tomorrow, “Same bat time; same bat channel.”
The 50-somethings knew what this meant, so did the 30-something who was on the call. The 20-something on the call had no idea where the saying came from. We explained that it was from the 1960’s television show, Batman. I recall when my family first got a color TV set. It was in the late 1960s, and I was about four years old. I had only seen TV in black and white. We had a rooftop antenna and received five channels. Our UHF antenna was pointed at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA. We received WNEP Channel 16 (ABC), WDAU (now WYOU) Channel 22 (CBS), and WBRE Channel 28 (NBC). WVIA Channel 44 (National Educational Television (NET), now PBS) was on the air, but we never watched because this was before there was Sesame Street. Our VHF antenna was pointed toward Binghamton, NY for WNBF (now WBNG) Channel 12 (CBS). Incidentally, in the 1950s, there were more UHF TV channels in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre market.
My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 1986-88, I lived in Plano, TX. There were two nightclubs: Charley O's at the Holiday Inn on Central Parkway East Solo's at The Harvey Hotel on North Central at 16th. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 I set up my Lionel electric train around the Christmas tree. On December 26, my wife and I took down the tree. I added the switch tracks to my layout, and put up some Plasticville buildings. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 I received the following HD Radio stations using my Insignia Model No. NS-HDRAD2 Tabletop HD Radio. I live in the Pinehurst section of the Jimmie Leeds Corridor of Galloway Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.“HD Radio” is the brand name for the digital radio broadcast technology developed by iBiquity Digital Corporation. 90.1 WRTI Philadelphia, PA (Temple University) 92.5 WXTU Philadelphia, PA 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA 97.3 WENJ Millville, NJ
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1020 WIBG - Ocean City (Cape May County)/Somers Point (Atlantic County) 1340 WMID - Atlantic City 1400 WOND - Pleasantville 1450 WPG - Atlantic City 1490 WBSS - Pleasantville 1580 WGYM - Hammonton FM Radio Stations 88.7 WEHA - Port Republic 88.9 WAJM - Atlantic City (Atlantic City Board of Education) 89.3 W207AB - Atlantic City (K-LOVE) 89.7 WNJN - Atlantic City (WHYY 90.9 Philadelphia) 90.5 WWPF - Brigantine 90.5 WLOM - Egg Harbor Township 91.7 WLFR - Pomona (Stockton University) 92.5 W223CO - Atlantic City (WOND 1400 AM) 92.9 W225BV - Pomona (WYRS 90.7 Manahawkin) 93.9 W230AA - Atlantic City (Latina 93.9) 95.1 WAYV - Atlantic City 95.5 W238CZ - Atlantic City (WPG 1450 AM) 96.1 WTTH - Margate City 96.9 WFPG - Atlantic City 99.3 WZBZ - Pleasantville 100.3 W262CF - Pleasantville (WEHA 88.7) 101.3 W267BP - Pleasantville (WIBG 1020 AM) 101.7 WMRH-LP - Linwood (Mainland Regional High School) 102.5 W273CL - Egg Harbor City (WYRS 90.7 Manahawkin) 103.1 W276CW - Atlantic City (Reach Gospel Radio) 103.7 WMGM - Atlantic City 104.1 W281BH - Absecon (Rock 104.1) 104.9 WSJO - Egg Harbor City HD Radio Subchannels
107.3 WPUR - Atlantic City 107.7 WRWL-LP - Galloway 107.9 WRML-LP - Mays Landing (Atlantic Cape Community College) Television Stations Channel 4 WACP - Atlantic City (Transmitter in Waterford Works, Camden County)
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My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 I remember seeing railroad tracks in a residential neighborhood in Jessup when I was a kid. There were no gates or lighted signals. I believe that there were only crossbucks. On September 2, 2015, when I visited my parents in Olyphant, I took a ride through Jessup to look for the tracks. On Powell Avenue between Court Street and Mylert Street, I saw a wooded area that looked as though there may have been railroad tracks running through it. I parked my car to take a closer look. I took note that some railroad ties with tie plates were exposed. The rails were gone. I checked some maps online. I believe that the ties are from the Moosic Mountain and Carbondale Railroad that ran from the Marshwood Colliery in Olyphant and connected to the Delaware and Hudson Railroad in Winton (Jessup). Moosic Mountain and Carbondale Railroad At the time, the map on my smartphone also showed the tracks. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 During the COVID-19 Crisis, I’m missing the one-day trips to Washington, DC that I made for my job. I would arrive at the hangar at Atlantic City International at 7 AM, and board a chartered shuttle flight to Reagan National outside of Washington, DC. I then rode a van to Washington DC, and went to meetings. At 4 PM, I would ride the van back to Reagan National, and fly back to Atlantic City. I would make it home by about 5:45 PM; in time for dinner. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 One day in August of 2007, my friend Oscar, his son Vincent, my sons Joey, and Nic, and I took the New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line train from Absecon to Philadelphia 30th Street to walk around the city and have lunch at a brewpub; sample some beers. We meandered around the streets to the Independence Brewpub at 1150 Filbert Street. When we got there, the sign on the door said that it was “Closed Temporarily.” It turns out that we got there about two weeks too late. It closed for good on August 10. The brewpub had a similar name as a production brewery that had operated on Comly Street in the city from 1994 through 2000. The owners of the brewpub had paid to use the artwork from the label for Independence Brewing Franklinfest Lager in their logo. We executed our Plan B and walked to the Nodding Head Brewery and Restaurant which was on the second floor at 1516 Sansom Street. There, I sampled the following brews on draught:
We visited the Nodding Head again in December of 2007. During that visit, I had the Bill Payer Ale (BPA) and the Grog (English Style Brown Ale). The Nodding Head closed for good on October 31, 2014. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 On January 28, 1981, I was a junior at the Mid-Valley Senior High School, and a member of the Mid-Valley Spartan Band. That day, the band members reported to school in uniform. We took our instruments, got on school buses and rode to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (AVP) in Avoca. We marched onto the tarmac, and waited for the plane carrying Michael Metrinko to arrive. The plane landed and taxied to the terminal. The rolling stairs were moved to the exit of the plane. We played God Bless America as he descended the stairs. Michael Metrinko had safely returned from Iran! We got back on the buses and rode to Throop and waited for Michael Metrinko’s motorcade to pass as it headed into Olyphant. We were was inserted into the parade, and played patriotic songs as we marched down South Valley Avenue and then Lackawanna Avenue on our way to Saints Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church in downtown Olyphant. When we arrived, we saw helicopters from television stations flying overhead. There was WNEP, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Skycam 16, as well as the Philadelphia stations: KYW Channel 3, WPVI Channel 6, and WCAU Channel 10. Outside the church, Monsignor Stephen Hrynuck led the crowd in prayer. Almost a year earlier, Monsignor had Michael Metrinko’s parents, Harry and Alice Metrinko light a special candle. That afternoon, Michael Metrinko was back in his hometown to extinguished the candle. Recently Michael Metrinko and I began to occasionally exchange electronic correspondence. In December of 2019, he sent me a package. He enclosed a two-page letter. The first paragraph: As I continue to downsize my collection of memorabilia and art works, I think that you are the ideal person to receive the items I have enclosed as a gift. Your book “The Old School” was really wonderful and meant a lot to me because of the impact that building had on my young life. One of the items was a school bell with a wooden handle dating back to the 1800s. It was used to summon the students to class. It was given to Michael Metrinko’s Aunt Mitzi. She took it with her to college in Springfield, MA. She then kept if in her home in Massachusetts, until the 1980s when she gave it to her nephew, Michael. He took it with him during his State Department service in Poland and Israel. He later had it with him in Virginia. He last “officially” rang this bell about two years ago to quiet down a group of about forty US Military and State Department guests who were at his home for dinner. He passed this bell on to me as its “next custodian.” The moral of the story, “It’s not always how many people read your writing, it’s who reads your writing, and how it affects them.
My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 I was looking through my vinyl record collection and came across this gem, Bedful of Metaphysicians’ self-titled album. In the early 1980s, When I was in high school and college, I often listened to Mixed Bag hosted by George Graham on WVIA-FM in Pittston, PA, an NPR station. He plays a wide variety of music including Homegrown Music. Local musicians record tracks at the radio station studio, and he plays the music on his show. I remember hearing him play music by a group of local musicians calling themselves Bedful of Metaphysicians. After I graduated from college, I moved to Plano, TX. I was in a record store on Greenville Avenue in Dallas, and found this album which was produced by Michael Garrison, Bedful, and George Graham. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 On Thursday, March 5, 2020, President Donald Trump visited Scranton, PA for a townhall meeting.
I recall Vice President Walter Mondale’s visit to Scranton on October 29, 1980. I was a junior in high school and a member of the Mid-Valley Spartan Band. Vice President Mondale made a campaign stop at the Hotel Casey at the corner of Lackawanna Avenue and Adams Avenue. The Mid-Valley Spartan Band played outside as he entered the hotel. The Dunmore High School Band played inside. We were then invited inside, and were each given soda in a paper cup and a hotdog on a slice of white bread. As the vice president was walking through the crowd, I was able to shake hands with him. The vice president shook hands with many of the other band members as well. I am not aware of any partisan arguments concerning our playing at this event. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 There was a recent announcement that there are plans to open a Dave & Buster’s at the Shoppes at Montage in Moosic, PA. In research for my upcoming book about beer, I was fortunate enough to talk to Bill Moore. In 1994, he was a cofounder of the Independence Brewing Company that was located at 1000 East Comly Street in Philadelphia, PA. When Dave & Buster’s first came to Philadelphia, Independence Brewing developed a recipe for Pier 19 Classic Reserve Ale which was served at their Philadelphia restaurant and sports bar. In addition to their own brand, Independence Brewing contract brewed products for the Pretzel City Brewery of Reading, PA, the Old Peconic Brewing Company of Shelter Island, NY, and others. The laws and regulations of the day were more restrictive to small breweries than they are today. The distributors, retail outlets, bars, and restaurants were reluctant to carry microbrews. Of all of the beers that they brewed, the only beer of theirs that I was able to find in the stores in the Atlantic City area was Independence Gold Ale. The Independence Brewing Company went out of business in 2000. Bill Moore gave me a lot of beer bottle labels and memorabilia to include in my book. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 Growing up in Olyphant, PA in the 1970s, Halloween was a lot different than it is almost everywhere else. First, we did not call it trick-or-treating. We called it Halloweening. Trick-or-treaters were called Halloweeners. When we went to a house, instead of saying “Trick-or-treat”, we said “Want any Halloweeners?” Some people said, “No. Go away.” Most people said “Yes”, and asked you to come into their home.
We entered and stood near the entrance. They then asked us to sing a song. We would sing one of several Halloween songs that we learned in school. There was “Pumpkin Man”, “One Little, Two Little, Three Little Witches”, and “My Old Black Cat Sits in the Dark”. After we sang, the people would give us candy; others gave us nickels or dimes. One Halloween, my sister, Melissa, and I saw our Aunt Lucy on her way to the neighborhood bar, Sanko’s at the corner of Moosic and North Valley. She told us to come into the bar with her. The patrons were prepared for Halloweeners. We walked behind the barstools. They turned around and gave us candy and change. When we got home, in addition to our candy, we would have something like $3.47 in loose change. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 As an elementary school student is the 1970s, I heard some people who were in their sixties comment, “You kids have school buses to take you to school. We used to have to walk to school.” They did not have a term similar to "Millennials", but they held us in that regard. We knew of the school in downtown Olyphant, but they did not go on to say that there were small elementary schools in their neighborhood and they did not have to walk very far. Only elementary school students who lived downtown and in the Flats attended the Central School at the corner of Church and Susquehanna. That was their neighborhood school. There were the following neighborhood elementary schools:
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Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 Now that I’m well over fifty, youngsters consider me an old-timer. As such, I now feel compelled to tell stories the same way that old-timers told me stories. The most important rule is to use the actual names of the people. Don’t say “someone who I knew”, or “a guy at work”. Use the names of the people; even though they will not have the slightest idea who you are talking about. If you can’t remember a person’s name, pause and try to remember. While you are thinking, use filler phrases like “What was his name?”, and “It was on the tip of my tongue.” Do this even if the person’s name has nothing to do with the topic. If you draw a blank, apologize and tell them that you will tell them the rest of the story when you remember the person’s name. Follow this rule, and you will tell stories just like an old-timer.
My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 It appears that Phase 4 of the FCC TV Channel Repack is just about complete in the Philadelphia market. I live in Galloway, NJ which is near Atlantic City. This afternoon, I performed a rescan. I expect that the following fifty-four channels will be my lineup for the time being.
The only surprise is that I now receive WFPA-CD most of the time. I’m also expecting to receive WZPA-LD after its move from physical channel 33 to 32 is complete. This is because the old transmitter was in Roxborough, PA, but the new transmitter will be in Waterford Works, NJ. Channel 3 – KYW (was physical 26, now 30) Roxborough 3.1 CBS 3.2 Start TV Channel 4 – WACP (physical 4) Waterford Works 4.1 WACP.1 Infomercials 4.2 WACP.2 ShopHQ 4.3 WACP.3 Heartland 4.4 WACP.4 Shop LC 4.5 WACP.5 Jewelry TV 4.6 WACP.6 QVC 4.7 WACP.7 QVC2 4.8 WACP.8 Global Mall TV Channel 10 – WCAU (was physical 34, now 28) Roxborough 10.1 WCAU-TV NBC 10.2 COZI-TV Channel 15 – WSJT (physical 10 – new) Waterford Works 15.1 FaithTV Faith USA 15.2 GEBTV GEB Network 15.3 FaithTV Faith USA 15.4 GBNTV 15.5 BVOVTV Channel 17 – WPHL (physical 17) Roxborough 17.1 WPHL-DT MyN "PHL 17" 17.2 Antenna TV 17.3 This TV 17.4 Comet TV Channel 23 – WNJS (was physical 22, now 23) Waterford Works 23.1 WNJS PBS "NJTV" 23.2 WNJS.2 NHK World Channel 28 – WFPA-CD (was physical 28, now 35) Roxborough 28.1 WFPA-CD UniMás 28.2 GetTV 28.3 Quest Channel 29 – WTXF (was physical 42, now 31) Roxborough 29.1 WTXFDT FOX "Fox 29" 29.2 Movies! 29.3 Light TV 29.4 BUZZR Channel 40 – WMGM (physical 36) Swainton, NJ; The former NBC 40 Atlantic City/Wildwood 40.1 Justice Network 40.2 GetTV 40.3 WUVP-DT Univision Channel 48 – WGTW (physical 36, WMGM guest channel) Swainton 48.1 WGTW-TV TBN HD 48.2 Hillsong Channel 48.3 Combo 48.4 Enlace USA Channel 52 – WNJT (physical 23, WNJS guest channel) Waterford Works 52.1 WNJT PBS "NJTV" 52.2 NHK World Channel 57 – WPSG (physical 33, was 32) Roxborough 57.1 WPSG CW "The CW Philly" 57.2 Charge! 57.3 Comet TV 57.4 TBD Channel 61 – WPPX (physical 34, was 31) Roxborough 61.1 ION 61.2 Qubo 61.3 ION Plus 61.4 Shop Infomercials 61.5 QVC 61.6 HSN Channel 62 – WWSI (physical 28, WCAU guest channel) Roxborough; original analog transmitter was in Tuckerton, NJ 62.1 WWSI Telemundo 62.2 EXITOS TeleXitos Channel 65 – WUVP (physical 17, WPHL guest channel) Roxborough; in the 1990s it was WHSP in Vineland, NJ 65.1 WUVP-DT Univision "Univision 65" 65.2 Bounce TV 65.3 Justice Network My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 I wrote the following article for History Bytes - A Lackawanna Historical Society Publication, Vol. 2 No. 3 May - June 2019; Rick Sedlisky, Editor (Lackawannahistory <at> gmail.com)
Mr. Gerald Luchansky provided the information concerning the changes that took place beginning with the 1973-74 school year. Mid-Valley School District 50 Years Later By Joseph Peter Klapatch According to a report by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, Education Research & Policy Center entitled “Merger/Consolidation of School Districts: Does it save money and improve student achievement?” dated April 2009 (mrea-mt.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PA-psba-merger-consolidation.pdf), for the 1959-60 school year, there were 2,277 school districts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. During the 1960s, there were three legislative actions that brought about consolidations of school districts. There was the School District Reorganization Act of 1961, the School District Reorganization Act of 1963, and the School District Reorganization Act of 1968. As a result, for the 1969-70 school year there were 669 school districts in Pennsylvania. Locally, among many jointures, the 1969-70 school year was the first for the Mid-Valley School District, which consolidated the former Olyphant, Throop and Dickson City school districts. Even though the district is Kindergarten through 12th Grade, each borough continued to have its own elementary school. The former Dickson City Junior High School became the Mid-Valley Junior High School for students in grades 7 through 9. The former Olyphant Junior High School became the Mid-Valley Senior High School for students in grades 10 through 12. One of the anticipated advantages of mergers that the study mentions is the need for fewer superintendents and other key positions. At first, the superintendent of the former Olyphant School District, John Metrinko, became the superintendent of the newly established school district. The former Throop School District superintendent, Edward Prokop, and the former Dickson City School District superintendent, Joseph Tylenda, became assistant superintendents. For the 1973-74 school year, Dr. Thomas McDonnell became the superintendent; there were no assistant superintendents. Currently the Superintendent of Schools is Patrick J. Sheehan. Similarly, the principal of the former Olyphant High School, Stanley Kucab, became the Mid-Valley Senior High School principal. Frank Rolka, who was a science teacher, became the senior high school assistant principal. Edward Munley was the principal of the former Dickson City High School. Joseph Regenski was the principal of the former Throop High School. Mr. Munley became the Mid-Valley Junior High School principal. Mr. Regenski became the junior high school assistant principal. For the 1973-74 school year, Daniel Donovan became the secondary school principal for both the junior and senior high school with his office was in the senior high school. Before this he was a Social Studies teacher at West Scranton High School. Robert Warzecha became the junior high school vice principal in the school in Dickson City. He started his teaching career in the 1970-71 school year as a Social Studies teacher in the Mid-Valley Junior High School. Gerald Luchansky became the senior high school vice principal in Olyphant. He began teaching English at the Dickson City High School during the 1968-69 school year, and continued at the Mid-Valley Senior High School. He was the Guidance Counselor during the 1972-73 school year. Currently, Jeffrey Kovaleski is the Secondary Center Principal, and Michelle Higgins is the Secondary Center Vice Principal. The report points out that the consolidations facilitated the creation of full-time elementary school principal positions which improved supervision. Before the jointure, and during the early years, there were no formal elementary school principals. Each elementary school had a head teacher. This was a teacher who performed additional duties that would normally be performed by a principal. The head teacher for the Throop Elementary School was John Luchansky. For the Olyphant Elementary School, it was James Liparulo. For the Dickson City Elementary School, it was Ann Kachmar. Later, John Luchansky became the elementary school principal with jurisdiction over the three elementary schools, but the head teachers remained. Currently there is one elementary school in the district. Carlos Lopez is the principal, and the vice principal is Michael Piercy. There are no longer head teachers. Another anticipated advantage is the “need for fewer buildings.” Because all secondary students were attending schools in Dickson City and Olyphant, no secondary school students attended classes in the former Throop High School. It became the Throop Elementary School. The Washington School in Lower Throop, which had served as an elementary school, was closed. In 1977, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry condemned the Olyphant and Dickson City elementary schools because they were in violation of the Fire and Panic Act. For the 1981-82 school year, students in grades seven through twelve began to attend classes in the newly-built Mid-Valley Secondary Center; the Elementary Center opened for the 1989-90 school year. The report mentions that in consolidated school districts, there can be a better allocation of teachers to offer additional courses. Immediately before the jointure each high school had graduating classes ranging from about thirty to fifty students. For the most part, students had the same English teacher for all three years, the same social studies teacher for all three years, etc. The consolidated district had graduating classes of over one-hundred students. Because of this, instead of having a science instructor who taught Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, there were a Biology teacher, and Chemistry teacher, and a Physics teacher. Students did not have the same teacher for a particular subject three years in a row. In the beginning, the transition was not very smooth. Some students, teachers, and administrators still held on tightly to their previous affiliations. In the years immediately before the jointure, none of the three districts had a football team. For the 1969 season, there was the Mid-Valley Spartans junior varsity team. The following season, there was a varsity team. This helped unite the student body. As students progressed from elementary school to secondary school, and had no previous first-hand experience in the predecessor secondary schools, integration of students from the three boroughs was less difficult. Now that there is only one elementary school for the entire district, borough identity has much less relevance in school life. Overall the consolidation was a big success. It is hard to imagine the school experience if there was no consolidation. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 Even though the setting of Please Don't Eat the Daisies is the fictitious suburb of Ridgemont, New York, there is a connection with Scranton and Olyphant, Pennsylvania.
The 1957 best-selling book was written by Scranton native, Jean Kerr (née Collins), who grew up on Electric Street in the city. In 1960, the book was made into a movie starring David Niven and Doris Day. Please Don’t Eat the Daisies was then made into a TV sitcom that aired on NBC in 1965-67 and starred Mark Miller and Olyphant native, Patricia Crowley. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/ Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 Library of Congress
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