10/10/2009

Nostalgia

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 11:02 pm

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April 26, 2001: Barrie, Ontario

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16 Responses to “Nostalgia”

1. I wish I would have been there… actually, I wish that I would have seen the Grapes of Wrath when I had the chance…

   discerning_con (c55553) — 10/10/2009 @ 11:08 pm

   
   

2. So, pretty soon we’re going to get pictures of padlocks and bicycle chains?

   Official Internet Data Office (4514e0) — 10/10/2009 @ 11:27 pm

   
   

3. I saw the Grapes of Wrath open for Game Theory, once upon a time.

   Recently came across “You May Be Right” on the Hype Machine.

   Karl (246941) — 10/10/2009 @ 11:28 pm

   
   

4. OIDO,

   If you really thought that was going to happen, you would also fear being banned for making the comment. 😉

   Karl (246941) — 10/10/2009 @ 11:29 pm

   
   

5. We had dinner with the Pikes that night, at the British Arms Pub across the street.

   A couple days later we had drinks with Tom Hooper and Kevin Kane in Toronto before their gig at the Horseshoe Tavern.

   What a trip.

   Patterico (64318f) — 10/10/2009 @ 11:47 pm

   
   

6. I believe the place we had drinks with the Grapes was also a British pub: the Black Bull British Pub on Queen Street.

   Patterico (64318f) — 10/11/2009 @ 12:20 am

   
   

7. Nostalgia is right. The WTC towers were still standing when this photo was taken.

   RickZ (c06fbc) — 10/11/2009 @ 5:08 am

   
   

8. I am very, very jealous.

   Dmac (5ddc52) — 10/11/2009 @ 8:38 am

   
   

9. Hey, I go to the Black bull all the time. Right around the street from where I work. Neat

   L Mitchell (abc78e) — 10/11/2009 @ 12:01 pm

   
   

10. Someone left the door open to where all the heat’s gonna get out.

    happyfeet (71f55e) — 10/11/2009 @ 12:45 pm

    
    

11. Ah nostalgia! I hear it so often here in Los Angeles, the New Yorkers (like Barbara Boxer) making sure people know their NY bona-fides (where they ate, grew up , etc), and now the Canadians. Why God bless you all. Now leave.

    (and in a twist that will not make sense to those not from here..) And when you leave I’d change Cesar Chavez ave./blvd whatever BACK to Brooklyn Avenue. CC is not from here. And guess what, the people with longtime ties to the neighborhood…..were NOT FARMWORKERS!!!! Re-name a street in Delano, CA – not LA. Oh, and I would also restore the Breed Street shul – we (speaking for our family) miss the Jews. (relocating Cantor’s is not going to happen – but a satellite location, would that be too much to ask?)

    Californio (bff3db) — 10/11/2009 @ 8:07 pm

    
    

12. Uh, I don’t understand that comment.

    I flew up there for that concert. I’m not from Canada.

    And I am pleased that I have at least one reader from Toronto.

    Did I not understand your point?

    Patterico (64318f) — 10/11/2009 @ 8:14 pm

    
    

13. I think he means it’s time to check in with everyone’s fave Canadian person from Canada! It’s Skye! ohnoes. Looks like Skye’s in therapy. People just need to leave Skye alone so she can express I think.

    happyfeet (6b707a) — 10/11/2009 @ 8:29 pm

    
    

14. Opps – sorry – projecting where it is not warranted. It’s just that I grew up hearing many people talk about how long they’d been “out here” – meaning away from the center of the universe (insert name of other place here – often New York). Couple this with the incesant snarkiness about “La-La land” – no culture, no readers, just a bunch of laid back stoners out here. So I apologize for my misplaced anger – as usual in such occurances it had nothing to do with you…. (and I am so provincial that at first I though it was in Ontario, …..California…) my bad.

    Californio (bff3db) — 10/11/2009 @ 11:07 pm

    
    

15. You want provincial? One time when we hadn’t been living here long (about 15 years ago), we took up the airline on their offer to bump two people from the flight in return for free tickets. We were flying from Dallas to L.A. and they told us that they were going to be routing us through a layover in Ontario, but that we wouldn’t get off the plane, and we would be only an hour and a half later than if we didn’t get bumped.

    Mrs. P. and I were both utterly baffled at how we were going to be routed through Canada and still show up only an hour and a half late. (We must have been tired or something, since looking back it’s waaay more than obvious.) I think we figured it out before we hit L.A. But still.

    Now how many other bloggers tell stories on themselves that make them look really, really stupid? I ask you.

    Patterico (64318f) — 10/12/2009 @ 10:05 am

    
    

16. hello, I’m a Canadian and I’ve been reading your blog for some time.

    I didn’t know that you visited Ontario, and apparently hold it such high regard that you post a picture of a local restaurant…

    I’m glad that you have a higher opinion of Canada than the posters at `Sadly No’, at least.

    R.B. Glennie (c5ec6c) — 10/13/2009 @ 8:54 am