From: strzelin@sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov (Bob Strzelinski)
Subject: The Port City
Organization: Physics Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:51:13 GMT

Oswego, NY - "The Port City of Central NY" - that's my hometown, though I've
spent most of the last 20 years away from there, living in Syracuse, Ithace,
Binghamton, and currently, "Lawnguyland" (which I think is the correct spelling
rather than "Lon Guyland" - the natives say it as one word).  One thing LI does
that these other places couldn't do, sure makes me homesick for Oswego.

So, what's so special about Oswego?  Well, some of my fondest memories include:

1) The 4th of July Parade - It used to be a big deal with lots of marching bands	                            bands and stuff, but seems to have become almost a		                            parody of itself with most of the action going on in
                            the crowd, sort of a Northern Exposure type of
                            experience. Of course, some people just don't get                                it. Not to be missed...

2) Wade's Diner           - Only open for breakfast, Only open for SERIOUS                                   breakfast!

3) Rudy's (aka The Stands)- A Texas Hot, double order o' mushrooms, and a Genny
                            Cream Ale, PLEASE! Oh, and gimme about a hundred
                            orders of fish & chips to take back to Lawnguyland,
                            'cause the seafood restaurants there SUCK!

4) Oswego politics        - When I was in high school (early 70's) we were                                   pretty cynical about the local pols and thoughy the
                            local scene was pretty funny (of course then we also
                            thought the idea of Ronald Reagan going into                                     politics was funny). Don't know if the local scene
                            has cleaned up, but I hear it's become a bit more
                            sophisticated. Too bad. It was great preparation for
                            later in life when you realize that your national
                            leaders are nothing more than the same bunch of                                  crazy Rotarians you saw through as a kid (except
                            they have a bigger budget to screw up, and... NO, it
                            can't be!!!,,, they've got a nuclear arsenal!!!!!!!
                            Look OUT!!!)

5) The Bridge Street Run  - Not an athletic event, not a marathon. Merely, the
                            attempt to do the impossible - visit (and patronize)
                            every bar on Bridge St. in a single night of drunken
                            debauchery. Of course, if you started at the west
                            end of Bridge and made it to the east end, by that
                            time, another bar would have opened back on the west
                            side and you have to start over, and so on, ad                                   infinitum, ad nauseum...

Well, I could go on, but it would be nice to see some other folks' additions to
this list. Let's hear it from Oswego, I know there are computers there, at least
at the college.

 
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