Tell your tales of my native Pennsylvania.

[Thestral]

My mom's family is from the Hershey area and I went to college in Elizabethtown (Lancaster County), so... I've got lots of PA tales. I love the place.

Philly's a wonderful city, and I'm not picky about my cheesesteaks; I've never been to any of the famous shops though. I think my favorite cheesesteak was one I got from a place in a former train station? Franklin Institute = fantastic, and I saw a great production of Les Miserables at the theater a couple years ago.

 

[mimic]

mimic, I know Ricketts Glen. In fact, the first time I went there was with some guys I was going to school with at Penn State. I used to live above the Shoe Box shoe store on E College Ave almost opposite Old Main. I'd get all these great different pizzas for a dollar after midnight half a block down - I forget the name of the place. My favorite was this portabella mushroom one they had.

Brother's Pizza, maybe?

I lived in Atherton and Simmons in South Halls, then Park Hill (East Beaver Ave, right after it goes down a bit of a dip before 26 stops being split and then Lions Gate on Waupelani.

 

[Arpy]

Don't remember the name. It was between Shoe Box and McLanahan's. Googlemaps places Brother's elsewhere though they may have moved from when I was there ten years ago.

South Halls, eh? I used to live in North before getting my own apartment. It was far from my classes but I enjoyed the walk. One of the few things I enjoyed about my time at school. I was so miserable then trying to find my vocation and failing utterly.

BTW, I'm so used to Philadelphia and these days see too much the litter and dinginess but it's an amazing, historic, bustling city with lots to see. World class museums, hotels, restaurants, shops, sports teams, schools and, of course, industries. It's had a lot of hardships and yet it's immense, thriving, and on the upswing, with people and money coming in building residential and commercial towers, sports complexes, bridges, etc. And it has such character compared to so many comparatively nondescript cities out west. Jesus, I'm exciting myself.