I grew up there! On here, I have occasionally noticed negative comments about it. After the war, for a position with the PFC, I moved to Titusville. Despite the largest employer (steel mill) closing decades ago, the city has survived pretty well. The natural gas exploration doesn't seem to come close to the number of abandoned oil wells either. School facilities (all grade levels) are all less than a couple decades old. Also a great YMCA facility! The school system produced four PSU grads, including an MD, Doctorite in education and a masters in business. The lone boy is just a mechanical engineer. I was a bad influence on him as, to much time in the woods and on the playing fields! lol The catholic grade school they all attended did close decades ago though!
"State" of Tamaqua!
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@Woodpecker spent some of his formative years in McNeil Island, Washington.
The light of a full moon is equivalent to a forty-watt bulb at fifteen feet
I am not sure which city has survived well, Tamaqua or Titusville. If Tamaqua, the school system also produced 2 Gettysburg college grads as well.
My great-great grandfather settled in Titusville after emigrating from Shannon, Ireland.
I think I saw a bigfoot while camping at a lake around there as a kid. I wasn't yet into drugs and alcohol and was walking along a creek that feeds a lake. I got back to the road that goes over the damn and swear there was a bigfoot staring at me when I came out of the woods. I sprinted back to the campground where the family RV was and told them but they were all drunk and laughed at me. (This was in the late 70s when they were playing all those bigfoot documentaries at the movie theatres).
Nope, not a Bigfoot. Just a local Tamaqua girl......er....... birthing person.
The "whole 9 yards" refers to the length of ammo belt in WWII anti aircraft guns.
Actually I believe it was the ammo belts of fighter planes, specifically the spitfire. So when pilots returned from a mission and were asked how they did they'd say, "gave the the whole nine yards"
And here I thought it was a load from a cement mixer
In reading "titusville' my mind said 'tittiesville' which is absolutely a place I would like to settle in.
whole... ammunition belt
The phrase "The whole nine yards" is derived from American airmen in the Pacific during World War Two. At that time, the ammunition belts loaded into the wings of the fighter aircraft were nine yards in length - oft times a returning pilot would convey to his fellow pilots and ground crew the intensity of battle by merely saying, "I gave him the whole nine yards."
John Sly, Yardville, New Jersey, United States
- One explanation is that World War II (1939–1945) aircraft machine gun belts were nine yards long. There are many versions of this explanation with variations regarding type of plane, nationality of gunner and geographic area. An alternative weapon is the ammunition belt for the British Vickers machine gun, invented and adopted by the British Army before World War I (1914–1918). The standard belt for this gun held 250 rounds of ammunition and was approximately twenty feet (under seven yards) in length.[15] However, the Vickers gun as fitted to aircraft during the First World War usually had ammunition containers capable of accommodating linked belts of 350-400 rounds, the average length of such a belt being about nine yards, and it was thought that this may be the origin of the phrase.[39] This theory is no longer considered viable, since the phrase predates World War I.
Yep. Since the article notes usage dating to 1855 probably not an automatic weapon reference.
Titusville, birthplace of the oil industry, is also where paleontologists discovered the first fossil specimen of a particular shallow marine sponge, Titusvillia drakei.
There are no fossil sponges in the rocks of Tamaqua. What you got there is much younger rocks - coal, sandstone, etc. - deposited in non-marine environments.
They had a good 4 by force team... cut cut scotch scotch, now pass the project on over to Butters Stotch
I thought it was the yardage BIG referees use to award Michigan first downs.
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