Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Man, every day something makes me feel older :-) But really, I dipped into a little bourbon last night ;-) Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure I actually meant to type Beacon Hill, because I recall through the bourbon fog thinking the word "Hill" and then wondering about my original elevation inquiry. No more bourbon and posting - promise ;-) Scott Jim Hemenway wrote: > Scott: > > The Back Bay is no longer what you think, hasn't been for many, many > years. > > Think Beacon Hill! > > Jim > > > Scott McLoughlin wrote: > >> Christopher Williams wrote: >> >> Kenner and Metairie we created when the "better off" wanted to escape >> the >> poor and riff raff of the city of New Orleans. But yet New Orleans >> was on >> higher ground. >> >> Both suffered severe damage so this man made disaster did not just >> effect >> the poor. >> >> ------------------- >> >> Nah, those are *relatively* low rent upper middle class 'burbs. I'm not >> concerned with the doctor/dentist working stiff crowd in regrads to my >> inquiry. >> >> I'm talking real wealth - as in, not having to work for a living, ever. >> Or your children, or their children. >> >> I was talking about old (hence my term, "historically"), urban, >> and hardcore wealthy neighborhoods of the monied classes - places >> like Back Bay in Boston, Foxhall in DC - stuff like that (fill in your >> favorite examples). Is the Garden District the equivalent in N.O.? >> Dunno. I'm curious, >> how did it fair Katrina? >> >> Scott >> >> p.s. While the media seems to characterize Harvard as a "lefty" >> place, it's actually a wonderful place to meet bright young people who >> are so RICH that they will *NEVER* have to work a day in their lives >> (like most of their parents before them). >> I recall 18 to 21 year old boys crying in the Dunster House courtyard >> the day the market crashed in '87, including Robert Ziff (largest >> t-shirt >> collection I ever saw), one of the heirs to the magazine fortune (he and >> his brothers sold it off - why concern themselves with mere business?). >> >> I shacked up with a girl, "Libby," briefly in "Deedee" Danforth's house. >> She bought a nice G'town townhouse to live in while attending lawschool. >> Her dad was the Senator, but more signifantly, heir to the Ralston >> Purina >> fortune. They had very nice, expensive art on the walls. >> >> Another nice 24 year old girl I knew had a townhouse with a >> *huge*granite >> fountain - in her kitchen. And less well heeled wives are so proud >> of their >> granite counter tops - if they only knew :-) >> Really, the stories go on an on, I had a friend, Jonathan, who asked if >> he could miss class for an upcoming out of town board meeting - he was >> a 19 year old sophmore at the time. >> >> Even at my prep school, they got us interested in Edgar Allan Poe with a >> spoof of "The Raven" where the refrain is "Buy a Ford" instead of >> "Never More." Like who would actually own a Ford? You get the idea. >> >> BTW, Just observations. I'm very much just a poor working class punk >> at heart, one who luckily liked to read and happened to test very >> well :-) >> >> >>> Chris >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)