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To: blackdog

when i left roxborough n manayunk were white.
lots of cops and FD.
also south philly were italians and polish. not so much now?


12 posted on 07/22/2013 10:48:25 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: Donnafrflorida
Why did you leave? Your parking brake not hold?

(That's a Manayunk reference that only Philly natives would get)

16 posted on 07/22/2013 10:55:09 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Donnafrflorida
Without further immigration, ethnic neighborhoods cannot survive. There hasn't been sizable Italian immigration since right after WWII, hence no more "Italian" neighborhoods.

South Philly today is an amalgam of Vietnamese, Chinese, Mexicans, white trash, black trash, and a handful of elderly folks of Italian heritage.

38 posted on 07/23/2013 2:56:59 PM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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