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Peanut butter and jelly.Sudden Sam wrote:Wonder what kinda sammich it was...
That's where the story got weird.
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New slogan?PSUFAN wrote:Fayette County = unbearable shithole.
"Fayette County: Where the sammiches and girfriends wind up the same temperature..."
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THE BIBLE - Because all the works of all the science cannot equal the wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every animal species in the world lived within walking distance of Noah's house.
Can't say I've spent much time in Perry County...but Fayette is the poorest, most backward county in PA. Towns like Perryopolis, Uniontown, and Brownsville were once significant industrial components of Western PA Steel...now, they are shitholes. Especially Brownsville...
![Image](http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/essays/nationalrd/brownsville/ghostbrownsville.jpg)
http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/ ... /neck.html
![Image](http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/essays/nationalrd/brownsville/ghostbrownsville.jpg)
http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/ ... /neck.html
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
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Let's see...PSUFAN wrote:Can't say I've spent much time in Perry County...but Fayette is the poorest, most backward county in PA. Towns like Perryopolis, Uniontown, and Brownsville were once significant industrial components of Western PA Steel...now, they are shitholes. Especially Brownsville...
http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/ ... /neck.html
Streets are clean.
No traffic problem to speak of.
No panhandlers.
What's so shitty?
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The crazy thing about the pictures above...every building you see there is utterly ruined. Sometimes it is possible to revitalize corridors like that, but each of the buildings' roofs have collapsed. The only thing for it is the bulldozer.
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
mvscal wrote:France totally kicks ass.
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Not too many itinerants in Fayette county. The indiginent poor are all welfared and cable TV'd up...they are too lazy to panhandle.There's no panhandlers because there's no one to panhandle.
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
mvscal wrote:France totally kicks ass.
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... and if you were walk up around the bend, you'd surely find a Steeler bar, overflowing with welfared fathers spending what little amount their paycheck was on Iron City Beer whilst whiling away the night dreaming of Willie Parker's 75 yd. TD run... all the while their children are in the cr outside fending for themselves.
Just wanted to bring the pic into a bit better focus for thos not familar with much of SW PA.
My experience with that area is this: I drive down that strip, and take a turn and end up at the school district's administrative building. The school district has money to burn; and there are folks in Fayette county who are eager to revitalize (Joe Hardy of 84 lumber, for example) but face probably impenetrableand innumerable challenges
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
mvscal wrote:France totally kicks ass.
Mikey wrote:Let's see...PSUFAN wrote:Can't say I've spent much time in Perry County...but Fayette is the poorest, most backward county in PA. Towns like Perryopolis, Uniontown, and Brownsville were once significant industrial components of Western PA Steel...now, they are shitholes. Especially Brownsville...
http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/ ... /neck.html
Streets are clean.
No traffic problem to speak of.
No panhandlers.
No graffitti.
No day laborers standing around.
No smog.
What's so shitty?
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Found this on the web:
http://skyscrapercity.com/archive/index ... 22749.html
http://skyscrapercity.com/archive/index ... 22749.html
Brownsville was once a very important town in southwestern Pennsylvania. There is even a Brownsville Rd. that starts out in Pittsburgh, and runs all the way to Brownsville, some 40 miles away. Brownsville's population is a pitiful 2804, down from 8,015 in 1940. Brownsville was founded in 1765. The town thrived when the National Road came through the town, with some believing Brownsville would eclipse Pittsburgh, and become the metropolis of southwestern Pennsylvania. Of course this did not happen. There are two sections to Brownsville. One, along the old National Road (US 40) is a time capsule of the early 1800's. The other section, close to the Monongahela River, dates to the era of the coal and steel boom at the turn of the century.
First up, is the tiny town of Fayette City. (never had heard of it). With a population of only 714, this town is the proverbial "wide spot in the road".
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This is the later section of Brownsville.
http://i.pbase.com/o4/25/568725/1/56616983.br06.jpg
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The largely abandoned downtown.
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Ghost town.
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OK, let's look at the really old section.
http://i.pbase.com/o4/25/568725/1/56617002.br24.jpg
The National Road.
http://i.pbase.com/o4/25/568725/1/56617003.br25.jpg
These buildings date to the time of the National Road. Hotels and such, built to serve the traffic on the road.
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The Palladian window marks this as an Adam, or Federal structure.
http://i.pbase.com/o4/25/568725/1/56617008.br30.jpg
Buildings like these bit the dust 140 years ago in cities like Pittsburgh.
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Many fine old houses remain.
http://i.pbase.com/o4/25/568725/1/56617012.br34.jpg
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The abandoned Brownsville Hospital.
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An Italianate ruin.
http://i.pbase.com/o4/25/568725/1/56617024.br46.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/25/568725/1/56617025.br47.jpg
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
mvscal wrote:France totally kicks ass.