Pittsburgh 'n 'at
Yoyo,
We all went to the thrift store and found out that they had cleaned out lots of the clutter and were getting ready for Xmas with several tables of decorations and lights. Even the big table in the electronics area was cleaned off for a tree display.
Next we went to Giant BEagle for food before the Furry event at Games N 'at was going to start, and got there right on time. There weren't many cars there and Werevereen wondered if it was the right place, but then he saw a lighted sign that said Welcome Furries and we knew.
Hob and Boom wanted to do some exploring in the South Side, still along the river like Station Square, but further down, so we took off and let Werevereen get settled in. We walked up the street and got on a bridge over some train tracks that was really high, above the telephone pole and street light right there next to it. We walked the tracks past factory areas, offices, apartments and houses, it was really a mixed area, with the South Side slopes with houses going up on one side, and the city on the other.
We found a couple of dead deers in one section of the tracks, hit by trains. For some reason they were in one place, a high section of the rail road, so maybe they couldn't get off when the trains came.
The tracks came down to the street level, so we got back on the road the arcade was on and started to walk back. We found a dumpster full of un opened bags of potato chips and grabbed a bunch in a box and bag that was there, and it was good stuff!
With that we walked back to the car to drop the chips off and to see what Werevereen was up to. We didn't know if we could go in at all without paying, and we couldn't see him from the windows, but S'ift Fox saw us looking in and came out to the street and barked that we could come in to the party room for free, just not play the games.
That's where Werevereen was, sitting at a round table, drawing and barking with the other Furs. He introduced us to all of them, including Xanderfox who I see all of the time on the PA Furries list I get mail from. We looked around at the old things they have in that room, including a ringer washer, pump organ stove, and the red refrigerator with locking door and round corners, probably from the 1940s. Furs got into suit, a cute rabbit and a tiger, and went to tour the game rooms, and Collie and me hit the streets again, because it was still early in the night.
We got on the tracks again and took them in the other direction, going out to where there were few buildings and it was dark. We saw a walking bridge that went over us, and then to nowhere, and wanted to check it out. They had a barrier of railing blocking it off on the steps going up, and we could see why, they were in bad shape.
At the top we could see right into a school football field, and it was lit and looked like you see on TV, but no one was there. At the far end of the bridge it ends, and there was an abandoned camp site. It doesn't seem to be the greatest place to live, being open and up high, but there it was, a school chair, clothes draped over tree branches, a mirror, cups and things like that.
We went back and wanted to try the bottom side of the steps down to the next street, and those steps were much nicer, lighted, and with bends in them, tree leaves all around, and we could see the old heavy steel and concrete construction of them. At the bottom, we were exploring around and Hobnose found a bottle and tossed it at the wall in the back, and a bum came out from under the steps and yelled 'Don't be doing that destructive s*** around here' and we barked see you later and left.
After that we went all the way down the tracks to the other end again, got more chips, saw a few Dogs being walked, a yellow and black Labs with the same owner, and then we went back to the arcade just in time for the Furries to be getting out of there. On the way back we barked about all of the things we did.
On the way back we heard an old favorite underground radio station, one that Ric and me had visited in the early days and thought was great. The Dogs didn't get it, they are long past radio with computers, but I made the connection, oh yeah..
Boomer
We all went to the thrift store and found out that they had cleaned out lots of the clutter and were getting ready for Xmas with several tables of decorations and lights. Even the big table in the electronics area was cleaned off for a tree display.
Next we went to Giant BEagle for food before the Furry event at Games N 'at was going to start, and got there right on time. There weren't many cars there and Werevereen wondered if it was the right place, but then he saw a lighted sign that said Welcome Furries and we knew.
Hob and Boom wanted to do some exploring in the South Side, still along the river like Station Square, but further down, so we took off and let Werevereen get settled in. We walked up the street and got on a bridge over some train tracks that was really high, above the telephone pole and street light right there next to it. We walked the tracks past factory areas, offices, apartments and houses, it was really a mixed area, with the South Side slopes with houses going up on one side, and the city on the other.
We found a couple of dead deers in one section of the tracks, hit by trains. For some reason they were in one place, a high section of the rail road, so maybe they couldn't get off when the trains came.
The tracks came down to the street level, so we got back on the road the arcade was on and started to walk back. We found a dumpster full of un opened bags of potato chips and grabbed a bunch in a box and bag that was there, and it was good stuff!
With that we walked back to the car to drop the chips off and to see what Werevereen was up to. We didn't know if we could go in at all without paying, and we couldn't see him from the windows, but S'ift Fox saw us looking in and came out to the street and barked that we could come in to the party room for free, just not play the games.
That's where Werevereen was, sitting at a round table, drawing and barking with the other Furs. He introduced us to all of them, including Xanderfox who I see all of the time on the PA Furries list I get mail from. We looked around at the old things they have in that room, including a ringer washer, pump organ stove, and the red refrigerator with locking door and round corners, probably from the 1940s. Furs got into suit, a cute rabbit and a tiger, and went to tour the game rooms, and Collie and me hit the streets again, because it was still early in the night.
We got on the tracks again and took them in the other direction, going out to where there were few buildings and it was dark. We saw a walking bridge that went over us, and then to nowhere, and wanted to check it out. They had a barrier of railing blocking it off on the steps going up, and we could see why, they were in bad shape.
At the top we could see right into a school football field, and it was lit and looked like you see on TV, but no one was there. At the far end of the bridge it ends, and there was an abandoned camp site. It doesn't seem to be the greatest place to live, being open and up high, but there it was, a school chair, clothes draped over tree branches, a mirror, cups and things like that.
We went back and wanted to try the bottom side of the steps down to the next street, and those steps were much nicer, lighted, and with bends in them, tree leaves all around, and we could see the old heavy steel and concrete construction of them. At the bottom, we were exploring around and Hobnose found a bottle and tossed it at the wall in the back, and a bum came out from under the steps and yelled 'Don't be doing that destructive s*** around here' and we barked see you later and left.
After that we went all the way down the tracks to the other end again, got more chips, saw a few Dogs being walked, a yellow and black Labs with the same owner, and then we went back to the arcade just in time for the Furries to be getting out of there. On the way back we barked about all of the things we did.
On the way back we heard an old favorite underground radio station, one that Ric and me had visited in the early days and thought was great. The Dogs didn't get it, they are long past radio with computers, but I made the connection, oh yeah..
Boomer