Bison89
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09-08-11 08:53 PM - Post#107985
In response to bison63
I just heard from a fellow SAE that the house records, photos, etc. seem to have been put in storage a few months ago due to a multi-year suspension. At least one good thing came from the suspension.
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nitlion
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09-09-11 05:26 AM - Post#107989
In response to Bison89
I haven't been on the site for several days, dealing with my own flood problems. Just as a point of information, the creek running through Lewisburg along 6th St. is the Bull Run. Hence the Bull Run Tavern which has changed names several times, located on the corner of South 6th and Mkt Streets. Buffalo Creek enters the Susquehanna River behind the Street of Shops formerly the Woolen Mill and later Pa. House, on Water St.. St. Anthony's St. past the softball fields crosses Buffalo Creek and up along the river to Rt. 15, past River Woods. I only bring this up for people maybe that have visited Lewisburg at sometime and to get all your visual bearings correct. That said, I hope and pray that everyone comes through this with little or no problems.
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nitlion
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09-09-11 05:37 AM - Post#107990
In response to nitlion
Correcting myself, it was Bull Run Inn not tavern, later Rusty's was added on the 6th Street side and now Puersil's Irish Pub. The original Bull Run Inn was accross the street with Bull Run running under the building. It was Dunkle's Pontiac and then a bowling alley and then the bar, and then sadly burned to the ground., only to rise from the ashes where it was rebuilt on the present site.
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bison63
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09-09-11 07:11 AM - Post#107991
In response to nitlion
Hope your flood problems are manageable NIT. Actually, when I was at BU, Dunkles (aka Bull Run Inn) was a bar and a bowling alley. The bar fronted on Market Street And was, I presume what had been the showroom in the auto dealer days. Ron Snyder was the bartender in those days and Jack Dunkle was usually on the premises as well. Bottles of beer were .25 and Rolling Rock ponies were .15. Even in those days those prices were incredibly low when compared to suburban NYC where I was from.
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Bison54
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Flooding in Lewisburg
09-09-11 07:32 AM - Post#107993
In response to bison63
And I remember during my frosh year when Phys Ed was mandatory and we had a "unit" on bowling which was held at Dunkle's. Unfortunately, the bar was not open as it was an 8 AM class.
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bison63
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09-09-11 10:54 AM - Post#107996
In response to Bison54
Yes, I remember bowling for credit as well. But my real expertise as a "bowler" manifested itself in the bar on the bowling machine (with the silver puck). You could walk into Dunks on a Friday night with a quarter in your pocket, start a run on that machine and pay for your dinner and get well lubricated to boot. BTW, in those days gas was like a quarter a gallon and my car's gas needle varied between empty and a dollar's worth of gas all semester long. You could go a long way on a quarter in L-burg in the early '60s.
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lostpass
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09-10-11 03:21 AM - Post#108020
In response to bison63
My prayers that all remain safe. We are dealing with grass fires out her in CA.
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BuffaloBison
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09-10-11 08:17 AM - Post#108021
In response to lostpass
It looks like things are getting better, and it's nice to see that the students are pitching in. From the Daily Item:
Brady Fisher, owner of The Towne Tavern, on Sixth and Market Street, was effusive in his praise of how the community helped him on Thursday.
“I don’t know their names,” he said Friday, “Bucknell students, the high school booster club, hundreds of people helped me evacuate and remove almost everything from the Tavern in 25 minutes. A neighbor timed it. Every piece of furniture, everything on the wall was taken out and put in a truck, and driven to safety.”
Friday, at 9 a.m., the entire Lewisburg booster club came back and set us back up. “It was incredible,” Fisher said. “I don’t even know how you thank those kind of people. It was just hundreds of people. And the Bucknell people, they were out running on the street and they just were helping people. You didn’t even have to ask them. The entire men’s Bucknell lacrosse team, all 25 of them, came and helped me on Friday.”
(But if I were a cynic, which of course I'm not, I'd wonder if there was any personal motive for helping out a tavern.)
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Bison89
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09-10-11 11:11 AM - Post#108022
In response to BuffaloBison
Can you say "Drinks are on the house"?
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atlantabison
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09-10-11 04:45 PM - Post#108023
In response to Bison89
One of my volleyball parents surprised me with a "didn't you go to Bucknell" comment followed by did you hear that they are under water. Apprarently her son plays tennis for Mount St. Mary's and our game with them was cancelled.
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BisonRoadWarrior
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09-12-11 06:25 PM - Post#108060
In response to atlantabison
According to the Daily Item, three homes on Sixth Street were condemned. Can any of the local crowd say which ones they were? I'm curious if my senior-year apartment building is a goner.
Mine was the tannish one to the immediate left of the red one in this shot. Looking pretty good here, so I'm guessing it survived.
http://twitpic.com/6hrpal
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Bison137
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09-13-11 04:37 PM - Post#108093
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
The BU site now has a good slideshow of the flooding in Lewisburg and around the BU campus:
http://www.bucknell.edu/x71548.xml
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Bison137
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Re: Flooding in Lewisburg
09-13-11 07:12 PM - Post#108101
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
According to the Daily Item, three homes on Sixth Street were condemned. Can any of the local crowd say which ones they were? I'm curious if my senior-year apartment building is a goner.
Mine was the tannish one to the immediate left of the red one in this shot. Looking pretty good here, so I'm guessing it survived.
http://twitpic.com/6hrpal
Two of the problem houses reportedly are:
1. Yellow house on the creek side of 6th St between St. Louis and St. Catherine - part of foundation crumbled.
2. House on St. Louis just west from 6th St - had a major rupture of fuel oil tank in basement. (Or possibly gas line)
Also one of the houses on the left side of 6th St (as you are walking towards Market St), just over a block from St. George, had already been condemned and was not rented this year. Supposedly being fixed up.
Note: I don't guarantee any of the above is correct.
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BisonRoadWarrior
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05-11-12 04:30 PM - Post#129179
In response to Bison137
Lewisburg to buy flood-prone homes and create a "greenway corridor" linking Lewisburg and Bucknell.
http://wkok.info/news/news-news/flood -prone-proper...
http://wnep.com/2012/05/09/from-flood s-to-greenway...
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Bison137
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05-11-12 04:38 PM - Post#129180
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
You just beat me to posting this. Should be a good thing - eliminating all of the oft-flooded houses on the creek side of 6th Street that are on the verge of falling down, while at the same time creating the Greeenway. With the bookstore and so many other BU buildings now downtown, it will be nice to have a nice corridor. Most of the expense is being borne by FEMA, not Lewisburg or Bucknell.
Nice picture of what it may look like in the first link.
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baudolino
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05-11-12 04:38 PM - Post#129181
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
There is also a very interesting proposal about beautifying Rt. 15. Mostly about making it more pedestrian friendly, as well as improving the driving conditions on certain portions. Bucknell will also start working on making the Rt. 15 campus entrance a little bit more visible.
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Hoop Time
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Flooding in Lewisburg
05-13-12 11:32 AM - Post#129198
In response to baudolino
Understand this has nothing to do with "creating a corridor." It is all about mitigating future flood damage and reducing the future costs of flood insurance and disaster relief. Also, this "corridor" cannot contain any sort of structures or impervious surfaces (aside from FEMA approved floodproof restroom facilities), not even a sidewalk. Any walkways will have to be gravel or woodchips (of those open pavers). And those restrictions will be in covenants added to the deeds that restrict any development forever.
It will be very tough to make it look like that drawing on the WKOK Website. The FEMA restrictions in the hazardous mitigation program are very strict.
Edited by Hoop Time on 05-13-12 11:37 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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BisonRoadWarrior
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05-13-12 12:39 PM - Post#129202
In response to Bison137
Most of the expense is being borne by FEMA, not Lewisburg or Bucknell.
So, in other words, most of the expense is being borne by federal taxpayers.
Special thanks to all those taxpayers outside Pennsylvania...for their help in buying buildings in Pennsylvania, paying Pennsylvanians to destroy them and hiring more Pennsylvanians to create a greenway those non-Pennsylvanians will likely never see.
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atlantabison
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Re: Flooding in Lewisburg
05-13-12 08:14 PM - Post#129213
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
Most of the expense is being borne by FEMA, not Lewisburg or Bucknell.
So, in other words, most of the expense is being borne by federal taxpayers.
Special thanks to all those taxpayers outside Pennsylvania...for their help in buying buildings in Pennsylvania, paying Pennsylvanians to destroy them and hiring more Pennsylvanians to create a greenway those non-Pennsylvanians will likely never see.
Your welcome, its only money. 
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Paulie777
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Flooding in Lewisburg
05-13-12 09:20 PM - Post#129217
In response to atlantabison
FEMA already paid out, the town pays out a minimum balance to acquire, then works with Bucknell to renovate. Its a win-win-win situation.
The corridor is going to look really nice and as said, will be a nice addition for both the town and school. A lot of pieces are in place to make this town-gown situation really sharp. We still need more though from both ends to make this top-notch. The Bookstore is in place, the campus theatre is in place with a Bucknell welcome center next to it to boot. Now with this corridor we need more. I have always liked the wine and cheese shop at William and Mary and that corner there would be my ideal situation here. I hear there is a specialty sushi shop opening up on Market St. called SUSHI. We need more stuff like that. The Thai place Siam cafe on Market is also going in the right direction but I was not impressed went I went there and I won't go there again. There need to be ore or two more pieces of the puzzle to make this really nice, I don't know what they are.
I am not impressed with the new post office Lewisburg has in place of the building Bucknell took over. It is an eyesore that is basically four pieces of aluminum put up and no windows. Not much was invested in this building, stuff like this and the forever stamp show the general direction the US Postal service is going.
One more thing. Now with this new corridor coming in now is the time to take down the large wooden fence that lines the railroad track from the facility building to the presidents house, a full quarter mile. Take out the railroad track, extend the rails to trails path and you connect the town and school perfectly and beautifully.
Edited by Paulie777 on 05-13-12 09:25 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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