How many of you remember when the Trash guys had a dancing with Trash Barrels Contingent in Parades ?

Campers,

Getting to know more of the DPW people but Recology crews too busy to talk pretty much.

I was watching them work in the pouring rain (Recology) and it reminded me of when they used to have those big cans made out of high quality light aluminum and did carefully choreographed dance numbers in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and other events.

DPW did usual Wednesday morning curb sweep on our building’s South side today but it takes a smaller sweeper to get our East side cause of the raised concrete student drop off islands in front of both Friends and Greek Orthodox schools and the big part of storm hasn’t even begun and I’ll try to get the leaves there in the morning if DPW doesn’t get them tonight.

We really are pretty prepared as a building.

Only Carlin’s Cafe and Laundry are in danger and it will take a 2 foot deep flood to reach them and Dennis Carlin (managing owner) has sand bags there in place.

Losing the dancing Trash guys reminded me of another lost art.

Back when I was a young man in St. Louis every bar had a bottlecaps league in the backyard.

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When they stopped putting cork in the caps of budweister bottles the sport died  …

Go Niners  !!