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07-03-2008, 08:56 AM
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Hi Chick,
You are much braver then me. There is no way I would drive down there today. I get all itchy when I pass What used to be Betson's LOL I'm lying, I actually did drive down there once with my daughter and it scared her, that's the last time I went down. It's a shame how things change but I guess that's what you call progress. Seems to me that Olney is losing the battle though and no one seems to care, especially the people living there.  Quote:
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07-03-2008, 09:40 AM
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The area doesnt scare me in the least....maybe at night if I lived there..there are some decent looking blocks there still...my dad grew up on 4th st right off the BLVD and that first block still looks okay..NOT spectacular but okay..now go down a bit and it gets pretty shabby as are some of the blocks directly behind where the ACME was. One thing I am convinced makes a neighborhood look crappy is hurricane fencing..nothing was as nice as the old wrought iron fences around the yards. Of course now, security is a big issue...
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07-03-2008, 09:45 AM
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Hi Chick,
No argument from me. I lived on the 200 block of West Sheldon Street and man, it's crap!!! I agree about the fencing. My philosophy is this.....if you have to do that to your house, maybe you need to move!!!!  Honestly, I moved out of there when I was 13, I am 38 now, so technically I think I am can safely say I am from the NE, not that that is much better LOLJust kidding! Quote:
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07-03-2008, 10:04 AM
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my city was gone
last time driving thru my old stomping grounds i came down 2nd off of the blvd,hung a left onto the 200 block of ruscomb. the trees
on the north side of the street were taken down and parking pillars were put up instead. a burned out car took up the 300 block corner. the place looked so different! just an observation......
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07-03-2008, 10:18 AM
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Yeah that and the burnt out houses where people just have to pile their trash...as if the city doesnt collect it...do they think it looks nicer on somone elses property two doors down? I came up Snake road this morning its like an obstacle course due to the short dumping that goes on...I mean cmon..just put the loveseat on the CURB the city will pick it up...
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07-03-2008, 10:42 AM
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Yeah, last time I was there you couldn't even see down the alley (right off Rockland between 4th and 3rd) because of the growth. The old wrought iron fences though were rusting out about 40 years ago, I don't know how you would replace or repair them these days. The trees too were mostly sycamore which rot out relatively quick. Some of the old neighborhood actually looked pretty good, though in general that part of Olney (especially 5th) is crapped over.
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07-03-2008, 12:32 PM
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Cleanliness
I used to sweep the pavement and the street on the corner of 5th and Rockland when I worked at Millers and right across the street Joe at Sky Cleaners was always cleaning his place up. When I would walk around the neighborhood I would see the ladies hosing down their front stoops. I don't know what happened, I guess people just stopped caring!
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07-03-2008, 01:33 PM
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my childhood memories,slowly swirled past......
i used to wait for the "R" bus @ 4th & the blvd to take me to Mercy high school. i would walk up past ruscomb,albanus,sulis & rockland to get there. it wasn't too great back then 84-88,
it definatly was changing. take that as you may! Inky still looks ok, want to take my son to mass there one sunday. Alot was done to morrison! A freind & a great olneyite lived @ 4th & duncannon. said the last time she was down there her house was boarded up. bummer.....
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07-03-2008, 01:48 PM
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I wonder when Google is going to 'street view' Olney? Then we can whine about its condition from the comfort of our new neighborhoods.
Maybe they're afraid to send their camera crew into the O-zone. 
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07-03-2008, 02:11 PM
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my childhood memories,slowly swirled past......
QuakerSteve,
i think that was done. not sure by who. I can remember someone sending me pics of Incarnation, it was an aerial view.
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