ERIN GO BRAUGH TO MY IRISH FRIENDS...(PART 2). ON MY WAY TO CONSHY TO ATTEND THE ST PATTIES PARADE, DRIVING DOWN RIDGE PIKE AS I APPROACHED THE LIGHT AT NORTH LANE / COLWELL LANE I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THAT BOTH WERE BACKED UP TO RIDGE PIKE, (THIS WAS ABOUT 1:00 PM). IT TOOK ME SOME TIME TO ACTUALLY GET IN TO CONSHY....I WOUND UP PARKING ALL THE WAY DOWN WEST 7TH AVE. AND WALKING TO FOURTH AND FAYETTE TO COLLS FRAMING SHOP. I WAST PREPARED FOR THE TREMENDOUS CROWDS OF PEOPLE LINING THE STREETS. IT WAS OVERWHELMING. I WAS HOPING TO MEET MORE PEOPLE THAT I KNEW FROM THE PAST AS WELL AS SOME OF MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS BUT EVERYBODY WAS SPREAD OUT UP AND DOWN THE AVENUES. LOUIE CAPPELLI WHO I WORKED WITH AT THE JOHN WOOD CO. BACK IN THE 50S WHO I HADNT SEEN IN ABOUT 60 YEARS INDICATED THAT HE MAY BE AROUND FOURTH AVE. BUT I COULDNT FIND HIM. I WAS ALSO LOOKING FOR SEAMUS AND HIS LOVELY LU, ROSEANNE SALKOWSKI AND MANY OTHERS....MAYBE NEXT YEAR. I DID MEET AND TALK TO MANY FRIENDLY PEOPLE THOUGH. OH, AND I DID MEET FRANK BURTON, SON OF ONE OF MY DEARLY DEPARTED FRIEND, FRANK SR. WHO I WORKED WITH MANY YEARS AGO AT BECK MACHINE CORP. IN KING OF PRUSSIA. AND THEN I HAD TO WALK BACK TO MY CAR, ALL THE WAY DOWN 7TH AVE. AND YA KNOW WHAT?, IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS ALL UPHILL BOTH WAYS....GREAT TIME, LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR. ERIN GO BRAUGH MY IRISH FRIENDS.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:53:47 +0000