Phoenix, Winter/Spring 2011

On the airplane (new page for Airplanes, by the way) . . . some strange things. Here, for example, is the way the Royal Jordanian in-flight magazine described Eat, Pray, Love:

And here is the way the Delta in-flight magazine described it:

We also marveled at the come-hither look the lady on the Delta fasten seat belt announcement had. Hubba hubba:

In Phoenix, we went back to Hance Park and saw the I-10 plaque installed there. Under Hance Park (aka Deck Park) is the final link in the transcontinental interstate, completed in 1992:

A new page for the Palm Tree Stealth Monopole at 15th Avenue and Camelback Road. I love these things:

In April, we had to fly through O’Hare and saw one of these old school Airfones. I almost forgot about these things:

We ate at Culver’s (nearest location to NYC is about 473 miles west in Reynoldsburg, Ohio).
We saw the D-Backs vs. Giants at Chase Field early in the season when no one — no one! — knew that the D-Backs would be that good:

That Poor Lifeguard House

Just saw the WABC 7 footage of the lifeguard house at Long Beach bobbing around against the boardwalk:

Here’s what the house used to look like when we were there a few years back:

Looks like Long Beach is getting hit very hard — sad to see . . .

Also, it seems that all the television crews are stationed at the Allegria Hotel, which used to be an old-age facility called King David Manor:

Philadelphia And Vicinity, November 26-28, 2010

Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, which is making some of the best beer in the region (including Brooklyn Brewery? Maybe!):

I read that they were starting to poke holes in the Spectrum, but when we went by there, it was just one lousy hole — one of those ceremonial jabs at a building’s facade. Not sure how much more progress they’ve made on demolishing the place:

SEPTA sold the naming rights of the Broad Street subway line station at Pattison Avenue to AT&T:

I might feel a little disappointed if I visited Philadelphia and saw Independence Hall with a trompe l’oeil top. Some enterprising artist should do something similar to a building like, say, the Chrysler Building — it’d be hilarious:

The new National Museum of American Jewish History has opened just off of Independence Mall:

Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia: