Category Archives: utica

Last of the tax-powered trains

My Dad is back, and com­ment­ing on the high speed rail pro­posal and the cur­rent state of Amtrak. He took a train from Albany to Syra­cuse after bring­ing my new car to me, and loved it. Mostly because he had more or less a pri­vate train car.

I’m not gonna badmouth, but I’m gonna badmouth.

Okay. This might require a lit­tle back­ground if you’re not famil­iar with the For­ever Leather Man.
For­ever Leather is a locally owned store at Sanger­town Square mall in New Hart­ford (near Utica) NY. They may also have a loca­tion at River­side mall; I don’t live there any­more and I don’t really care.
It sells, log­i­cally, things

Oh man

Only 1,000 seats for the pub­lic?  Not that I think they should have more…but on the scene, this isn’t going to be pretty.
We had the crazy idea to drive out for Bill Clin­ton back in 2004, and had to stand in line in the cold for hours, then were sent to over­flow seat­ing to watch

This is going to be fun!

I’m sur­prised that I heard about this from Utica TV and a blog before Hamil­ton did a regional alumni e-mail blast.. Jon Stew­art, in the very gym where I failed my fresh­man fit­ness test. Imag­ine that!

As for me, I imag­ined it so clearly, I ran right to the Web site and booked alumni tick­ets for myself and an Albany friend. It costs money, but I won’t have to stand out in the cold for hours only to get sent to over­flow seat­ing like my dad and I did for Bill Clin­ton in 2004.

MOAR

13 years later…

They’re doing some­thing with ELS. That build­ing has been sit­ting and rot­ting since 1995 and is one of the last of the fraternity/private soci­ety houses to be ren­o­vated at Hamil­ton. It was a bus stop and occa­sional meet­ing space dur­ing my time there.