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Old 05-01-2015, 03:33 PM
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Looks like my last high school class before I quit teaching.
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Old 05-01-2015, 03:37 PM
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Looks like my last high school class before I quit teaching.
That reminds me.

I'm heading back to Florida later this month for the 50 year reunion of my all white High School Class.

They didn't integrate until the year after I graduated.
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Old 05-01-2015, 03:53 PM
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Possibly. I mean if you watch the video long enough you'll see them holding up multiple lanes of city traffic. And this was Baltimore 2007 before all the current mess. And everyone says cops ''pick on people.''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgfWUXsbr7w
Yes, impeding the orderly flow of traffic! Death's too good for them!

(US Route 40 West, by the way.)
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Old 05-01-2015, 05:43 PM
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Which is why your whining is so lame.
Snappy retort johnboy...I'm so crushed into dust.
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Old 05-01-2015, 06:42 PM
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That reminds me.

I'm heading back to Florida later this month for the 50 year reunion of my all white High School Class.

They didn't integrate until the year after I graduated.
Move to Charleston - the rest of SC is naked rednecks hanging from the trees playing banjos, but we're all good here.
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Old 05-01-2015, 07:00 PM
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That reminds me.

I'm heading back to Florida later this month for the 50 year reunion of my all white High School Class.

They didn't integrate until the year after I graduated.
Where is FL might that be? We lived in Palm Beach Gardens '78-'87.
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Old 05-01-2015, 07:55 PM
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Move to Charleston - the rest of SC is naked rednecks hanging from the trees playing banjos, but we're all good here.
Walter Scott isn't.
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Old 05-01-2015, 08:46 PM
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Where is FL might that be? We lived in Palm Beach Gardens '78-'87.
I'm originally from Pinellas County.
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Old 05-01-2015, 08:59 PM
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I was just trying to comment on the nature of Baltimore's neighborhoods. There are a number of other examples of nice, gentrified and relatively safe neighborhoods that are quite close to some very rough ones.
Sounds like Phoenix.
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Old 05-01-2015, 09:04 PM
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I'm originally from Pinellas County.
The The "west" coast as the natives used to call. Used to love driving route 60.
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