Wow! Too bad they were not successful in trying to move the McDonald's to Market Street when they tore down the Modern Laundry Company. There was a Minister who set up a coalition against McPenntrification whose name escapes me.
So close, yet so far from The Promised Land. From: "krf...@aol.com" <krf...@aol.com> Reply-To: "krf...@aol.com" <krf...@aol.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:52:35 -0400 (EDT) To: UnivCity listserv <UnivCity@list.purple.com> Subject: [UC] Check out The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Last store standing Click here: The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Last store standing <http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/index.php/article/2011/02/last_store_stan ding_the_past_and_present_of_mcdonalds_at_40th_and_walnut> To paraphrase Edmund Burke (although the prototype quote is usually attributed to Georgio Santayana): Those who distort history are: * doomed to wallow in it * no historians * poor researchers * dishonest researchers * extraordinarily gullible * mendacious * well-heeled enough to consider Bobby Flay's burgers a bargain * members or aspiring members of Alpha Epsilon Alpha (Anointed Elite of America) naive name-brand college undergraduates from privileged backgrounds * well... you get the picture * all of the above ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Krigman KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com
