Thursday, April 25, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
LPR Glimpses …

NOVEMBER 10, 2006 --

It looks like the Intrepid will be at the western end of 45th Street for a while.

The Intrepid


Army Vets visiting a Navy Ship.


LPR had planned to photograph the carrier, last Monday -- to hear on radio
that the ship had been scheduled to leave that day but could not, apparently being … stuck in the mud.

Some people are wondering if gas prices dropped in the pre-election-day period for political reasons. LPR has not heard fears expressed in the media, lately, that gas prices will reach $4 a gallon. LPR agrees
that tax cuts are good for the economy. Oil price hikes are not.


Mobil Station on Winsted Road in Torrington.

The evening of November 4, Dr. Eric Kandel, 2000 Nobelist in medicine, spoke at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. about his experiences as a Jewish boy in Austria at the time, March 1938, it became part of Nazi Germany, and his family's sub sequent emigration to America. For Dr. Kandel, no country outdid Austria in vicious anti-Semitism.


Dr. Eric Kandel


The great amount of construction underway in Manhattan is a good economic sign for New York City.

But Tower Records is going out of business -- reportedly after the holiday season, and figures spotted at night, in Manhattan doorways, are not in costume, Halloween or otherwise.

Tower Records will be gone soon …


Not a costume …