On the Ivy League tip

[Chickenman Testa]

My Fighting Quakers landed a blue chipper:

http://www.flowrestling.org/article...ona-makes-his-college-commitment#.WcQsREFOmEc

Fellow Nether Providence Bulldog Roger Reina doing work

 

[matter7172]

That's great to hear! I would like another top program within 2 hours of me.

 

[tikk10]

On a personal Ivy League tip I'll be shooting for Columbia all season this year, home matches at least, as well as at the NCAAs.

 

[El-Jefe]

Food for thought: both West Philly schools could have better recruiting classes than Top 10 Powerhouse Rutgers.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

On a personal Ivy League tip I'll be shooting for Columbia all season this year, home matches at least, as well as at the NCAAs.

Our own Walter Iooss

 

[CholleyVandine]

My Fighting Quakers landed a blue chipper:

http://www.flowrestling.org/article...ona-makes-his-college-commitment#.WcQsREFOmEc

Fellow Nether Providence Bulldog Roger Reina doing work

It was long after Nether Prov had become Strath Haven (and long after I had graduated from high school), but I lived for a couple of years in Rose Valley.

 

[nitlion6]

That's great to hear! I would like another top program within 2 hours of me.

Other than perennial top-5 Rutgers what more could you ask?

 

[dmm53]

My Fighting Quakers landed a blue chipper:

http://www.flowrestling.org/article...ona-makes-his-college-commitment#.WcQsREFOmEc

Fellow Nether Providence Bulldog Roger Reina doing work

I like U Penn and have had a Fellowship with the University, but isn't "Fighting Quakers" a bit too oxymoronic?

 

[tikk10]

Our own Walter Iooss

Years ago I was talking to some friends of friends at a bar and one of them casually mentioned he was Walter Iooss's son when the topic of photography came up. I don't think he realized how big a deal his father was. Iooss spent a lot of time on the sidelines at events but the work he stages is more impressive. He gets how to use technology and doesn't use it for its own sake.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

I like U Penn and have had a Fellowship with the University, but isn't "Fighting Quakers" a bit too oxymoronic?

 

[Chickenman Testa]

It was long after Nether Prov had become Strath Haven (and long after I had graduated from high school), but I lived for a couple of years in Rose Valley.

Nice! I miss the cathedral of trees we lived in. Went back for my mom's birthday recently and did my normal walk past the pool to Hedgerow, the Old Mill and back. One of the main things I miss living in Austin are the huge, mature trees that blanket Rose Valley and most of the nearby boroughs and towns.

My sister lives in our old house close to the train station and my oldest brother just renovated a place near Hedgerow.

Can I ask what street you lived on?

 

[El-Jefe]

It was long after Nether Prov had become Strath Haven (and long after I had graduated from high school), but I lived for a couple of years in Rose Valley.

I'm a transplant into Nether Providence, grew up in Central PA but have been in this house for 10+ years. Great place to live.

Plus, Strath Haven just feels familiar for some reason ...

 

[Chickenman Testa]

I'm a transplant into Nether Providence, grew up in Central PA but have been in this house for 10+ years. Great place to live.

Plus, Strath Haven just feels familiar for some reason ...

What street?

My baby sister is a teacher at Haven

 

[El-Jefe]

What street?

My baby sister is a teacher at Haven

Putnam. Close to NP Elementary.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Putnam. Close to NP Elementary.

Yup - minutes walk from Hepford Field. Played my share of little league baseball there - I was a "crafty" lefthander in my day

 

[El-Jefe]

Yup - minutes walk from Hepford Field. Played my share of little league baseball there - I was a "crafty" lefthander in my day

The neighborhood surrounding that park creeps me out. It's probably not too bad but feels like the soft underbelly of NP, like it should be all dirt driveways and a tornado could blow thru at any moment. An island of Delco admist an ocean of Delaware County.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

The neighborhood surrounding that park creeps me out. It's probably not too bad but feels like the soft underbelly of NP, like it should be all dirt driveways and a tornado could blow thru at any moment. An island of Delco admist an ocean of Delaware County.

Yup. My mom grew up really poor in the heart of Garden City. To this day she won't take us to her first home. We'd play some soccer games on that field against teams from Merion, Gladwyne, Narberth, etc and they'd look at us with pity. Did give us an edge as they probably thought we were tougher than we were.

 

[matter7172]

Other than perennial top-5 Rutgers what more could you ask?

No offense to the reasonable Rutgers fans, but as a whole Rutgers fans remind me a lot of Iowa fans. They are nearly insufferable now. If they actually achieve the status to which they feel entitled, I can't even imagine ....

 

[grappler6]

Sure seems they made the right call in bringing Reina back.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

We'd play some soccer games on that field against teams from Merion, Gladwyne, Narberth, etc and they'd look at us with pity.

I think Nether United only uses Hepford for U-9, U-10, and U-11 games, and even then it's more of an overflow location for when they need an additional field.

 

[SJP80]

On a personal Ivy League tip I'll be shooting for Columbia all season this year, home matches at least, as well as at the NCAAs.

What is the Columbia connection?

 

[tikk10]

What is the Columbia connection?

I live in NYC and just contacted them hoping they needed a photographer last March, and turns out they did. Before I changed careers I was a pro photographer, though I'd never shot sports professionally.

 

[grappler6]

I live in NYC and just contacted them hoping they needed a photographer last March, and turns out they did. Before I changed careers I was a pro photographer, though I'd never shot sports professionally.

Tell Nord hello!

 

[El-Jefe]

No offense to the reasonable Rutgers fans, but as a whole Rutgers fans remind me a lot of Iowa fans. They are nearly insufferable now. If they actually achieve the status to which they feel entitled, I can't even imagine ....

 

[El-Jefe]

Yup. My mom grew up really poor in the heart of Garden City. To this day she won't take us to her first home. We'd play some soccer games on that field against teams from Merion, Gladwyne, Narberth, etc and they'd look at us with pity. Did give us an edge as they probably thought we were tougher than we were.

Sorry, hope my description of the area didn't hit too close to home.

If it's any consolation, I recently learned that a childhood neighbor's house (less than a block from my home) was a "known drug center" at the time, possibly part of a biker gang -- and found that out the same way my family and friends did: when the police excavated the basement as part of a 28-year cold case homicide investigation.

(The case is actually fascinating, with a couple odd twists including the house being owned by a judge, and the tenant being the prime suspect's sister. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/08/chief_suspects_wood_chips_migh.html)

The day I found out ... let's just say I might have freaked out a little.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Sorry, hope my description of the area didn't hit too close to home.

If it's any consolation, I recently learned that a childhood neighbor's house (less than a block from my home) was a "known drug center" at the time, possibly part of a biker gang -- and found that out the same way my family and friends did: when the police excavated the basement as part of a 28-year cold case homicide investigation.

(The case is actually fascinating, with a couple odd twists including the house being owned by a judge, and the tenant being the prime suspect's sister. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/08/chief_suspects_wood_chips_migh.html)

The day I found out ... let's just say I might have freaked out a little.

Oh not at all. You can't sugarcoat Garden City. Added an interesting group of kids to Strath Haven's mix. We called them the Garden City Greasers. You have kids from Garden City, South Media, Rose Valley, Wallingford, Swarthmore, and Rutledge, and you've definitely got diversity. Our reunions are always interesting.

 

[tikk10]

Tell Nord hello!

I met him briefly at NCAAs, he's done a good job with Garrett Ryan.

 

[CholleyVandine]

Nice! I miss the cathedral of trees we lived in. Went back for my mom's birthday recently and did my normal walk past the pool to Hedgerow, the Old Mill and back. One of the main things I miss living in Austin are the huge, mature trees that blanket Rose Valley and most of the nearby boroughs and towns.

My sister lives in our old house close to the train station and my oldest brother just renovated a place near Hedgerow.

Can I ask what street you lived on?

I lived at the very end of Chestnut Lane in a huge log house on a beautiful wooded lot. My wife and I were probably the only renters in Rose Valley ... we rented the top floor. The guy who owned the house was a Native American who worked as a federal labor mediator. He would walk to the Wallingford Train Station in the morning in a natty suit with a red bandana wrapped around his head. His wife had a little in-home massage business and advertised in the classified section of Daily News. We had interesting characters rolling up at all hours. We also had a teepee in the backyard. There was a psychologist in Media who used to conduct counseling sessions there. We did not lack for local color in those years.

 

[pawrestlersintn]

Sorry, hope my description of the area didn't hit too close to home.

If it's any consolation, I recently learned that a childhood neighbor's house (less than a block from my home) was a "known drug center" at the time, possibly part of a biker gang -- and found that out the same way my family and friends did: when the police excavated the basement as part of a 28-year cold case homicide investigation.

(The case is actually fascinating, with a couple odd twists including the house being owned by a judge, and the tenant being the prime suspect's sister. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/08/chief_suspects_wood_chips_migh.html)

The day I found out ... let's just say I might have freaked out a little.

I was in a supermarket in Stroudsburg and met a guy that owns/trains cadaver dogs. He, and some others, were called in to let their dogs go to work on the "out of place" cement wall in the basement of that house. He said it would be one thing for one dog hit on a location, but dog after dog (7 total, I think) went into that basement and hit on the same spot. It amazed me that the dogs could smell 30 year old remains through, or mixed into, cement.

What was even more fascinating was that he said those dogs are used to find Civil War era remains. A human body that has been decomposing for close to 160 years still creates enough scent for one of those dogs to hit on.

 

[Media Fan]

It is not too far fetched to say that PSU wrestling now outdraws Penn football.


(P.S. Remember seeing the all white PSU play Penn in football back in say early 50s. When my father played for Penn, they averaged something like 65,000 for football in a 70-75,000 stadium). very happy memories for me.

 

[matter7172]

I live in NYC and just contacted them hoping they needed a photographer last March, and turns out they did. Before I changed careers I was a pro photographer, though I'd never shot sports professionally.

In the small world category, when we were selling our first house in 1998, Columbia's head coach's father came to look at the home. Didn't buy it, though. I watched Zach wrestle at the junior high and high school level. He was definitely driven. He had a fraternal twin brother that was also really talented at wrestling, but he wound up focusing on soccer and not continuing with the wrestling at the high school level.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

I lived at the very end of Chestnut Lane in a huge log house on a beautiful wooded lot. My wife and I were probably the only renters in Rose Valley ... we rented the top floor. The guy who owned the house was a Native American who worked as a federal labor mediator. He would walk to the Wallingford Train Station in the morning in a natty suit with a red bandana wrapped around his head. His wife had a little in-home massage business and advertised in the classified section of Daily News. We had interesting characters rolling up at all hours. We also had a teepee in the backyard. There was a psychologist in Media who used to conduct counseling sessions there. We did not lack for local color in those years.

Hahahaha! We lived (and my sister still lives) at 110 Chestnut Lane (3rd house on left). Depending on the year, there was a huge maple tree in front. Front porch had columns. That Log House has always had an interesting collective and that Native American guy is solid. My dad and him were very close - my dad took on PETA when he was a research scientist and PETA tried to destroy his reputation. He (I never met him and can't remember his name as they moved in after I left) pretty much told the PETA terrorists to get the hell out of his face.

The age-old path to the pool started just to the left of the Log House's garage (now torn down) and went down to the old trolley embankment. Pretty much my whole family lifeguarded at RVSP.

 

[CholleyVandine]

Hahahaha! We lived (and my sister still lives) at 110 Chestnut Lane (3rd house on left). Depending on the year, there was a huge maple tree in front. Front porch had columns. That Log House has always had an interesting collective and that Native American guy is solid. My dad and him were very close - my dad took on PETA when he was a research scientist and PETA tried to destroy his reputation. He (I never met him and can't remember his name as they moved in after I left) pretty much told the PETA terrorists to get the hell out of his face.

The age-old path to the pool started just to the left of the Log House's garage (now torn down) and went down to the old trolley embankment. Pretty much my whole family lifeguarded at RVSP.

Small world! He was a solid guy. His wife was solid too. (Hopefully they still are solid, but my wife and I bought our first house and moved out of there more than 25 years ago ... It's been a long time since I've seen them.)