The 50 Plus Cafe, Pub, All-Nite Greasy Spoon and Dive Bar

Open car, good price, great condition, year range I like, rumble seat, not that far from the house. The Palance car I was gonna buy has disappeared off the interweebles. No loss, really. I'ma exploring options. I'd prefer a full classic, but This one checks an awful lotta boxes.
It's gorgeous! 😍😍
 
Gnight, spooners.

I’m working in Philly the next few daze. May not be on as much.
I can't imagine much food I remember would still be there. If you can make a Flyers game the brisket is to die for.
If you can have dinner out. 2nd Street near the condo that was in the Ghost Busters movie there is an Irish bar. Good eats. Cobble stone streets. They even have lamb balls. Bye the way, the bartenderette heard that joke. She will laugh anyway. The balls are actually good. She knows they aren't that big in real life.
2nd, down by Market / base of the Ben Franklin you can find Einstein's. Good eats again. Kind of rural [local American] Indian. It is where he lived in Philly. Fireplace, warm. I liked the apple cider pork chops. Don't eat the apple chunks unless you really like cider.
11th? I called it the Superman building because it reminded me of an old Superman movie. Red granite. Dock Streets Brew Haus is in the lobby. Rabbit was always good. They do or did do cool stuff with quail too. Fun place to take a date. Always a winner.
Day time. Find Pat's and the one across the street with a friend. Both of you go to separate houses and order a Cheese Steak, Mushroom onion Provolone with fries. Find a place to sit and trade half of the cheese steaks and fries. Let us know which half you think is better. Pat's or the one with a G. I always liked Arthur's on 36th, but its gone now. Didn't make it past covid. Up there university is the Whitedog Cafe. That's good food too. Stop by the Black Dog or maybe Black Cat next door and get something unique for the Mrs. Uptown 16thish or maybe it was Rittenhouse, is Anthropology, that ladies store. You might find an artifact the Mrs. would appreciate there. The store is really cool. A NYC newspaper magnate bought that house for his wife because she did not want to live in NYC. The round staircase is topped off with a stained glass atrium covered by a cement dome. WWII they could not have light so it was covered up. Next door in the basement level was a Kitchen store. Privately owned and operated. Really nice lady. Cute too. Found really cool stuff there. Found a ceramic tea set for my sister-in-law she still talks about it today. Kind of like the frog prince story, in Italian pastels. Across from the Betsy Ross House is a flag store. Same store was there when the Constitution [maybe the Declaration - my history is screwed up] was signed. Lineage. Kind of cool to be in the presence of such flags, the old pipe organ from the church next door.... Anyway, stop by and have a wiff of real Americana. Dust on those floors been there quite a while. If you have time and want to impress your friends, in front of Memorial Hall West Fairmount Park is the Smith Memorial Arch honoring Pennsylvania's Civil War military and naval heroes. Generals from both sides. The whispering benches are something to experience. I'm at a loss of street names in my head. If I could remember them they take you under a natural arch and past Strawberry Mansion. Cool graveyard. I think it is closed to public now. Victim to vandalism you can't go there. Anyway, sit on those benches and look at those old brown stones. I wonder who lived in those when they were new. Big heavy doors like Mulberry Street in Boston.
It's Philly. I hope you get to enjoy something while you are there.
 
@likes2watchU thanks for the kind words. I am taking today as a rest day, so I can help organize things on the phone, but I am not driving at all.

When I worked in Radio, we had a western radio drama i would swipe the tapes of after they broadcast. Louis L'Amoure Theatre. I loved the Chick Bowdry stories
Glad you took a rest day! 🫂🫂
 
So, most times, it is just run ofnthe mill PTSD based insomnia. But i have a family member who is not long for this world and was painted into the "you can, therefore you must" corner for about 20 straight hours of taxi driving
I'm so sorry you're dealing with that. Please remember to take care of you. "No" is a complete sentence.
 
Not my first rodeo. Really, I am just tired of being the one who picks up everything because of course I can do that too.

I am very familiar with the process of death, considering I am not in the medical field, but if something comes up, i will be sure to use you as a resource.
Miss K and I are both nurses. We will both help you, if you want.
 
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