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Posted on 08/01/2019 5:03:55 PM PDT by foreverfree
It’s summer, and for hundreds of thousands of Americans, that means at least one burger-and-bathroom break in Breezewood, Pennsylvania. This half-mile gauntlet of gas stations, fast-food outlets, and motels, its oversized signs towering above the surrounding countryside, is familiar to anyone who has to drive regularly from the East Coast to the Midwest or vice versa.
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Far from being “Every Town, U.S.A.,” Breezewood is a weird, improbable blip of a place. It’s what an architect might call a unique urban condition—a churning mini-city where the population nearly turns over every hour.
But other FReepers might.
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P.S. I do remember one of those times, I stopped for gas at the Sunoco in Breezewood while transitioning from I-70 to the PA Turnpike, and in the men's room there over the toilet were a rack or two of Bible tracts.
Generica
I stopped there in 1964 enroute to my new assignment at Langley AFB, Va. Same way then.
WAG; maybe 100 times. Main way from Michigan to DC. Worked in DC for 25 years. Family mostly stayed in MI.
Never had a bad experience. Once saw a U-haul truck hauling a trailer carrying a beautiful British Racing Green 3.8 liter Jaguar sedan. Story line was "She got the house and kids, he got the "3.8 Sedan."
“This is the ideal American city. You may not like it, but this is what peak freedom looks like.”
Liberals use stuff like this to justify their ideal regulatory state. Oh, and eventually they're gonna come for your car.
So far as I know, it had the only “Kentucky Beef and Ham.” - it was a Kentucky Fried Chicken but also had Roast Beef and Ham sandwiches too.
I don’t think it’s there any longer.
Never heard of it before.
Well, I always take I-80, and liked to get off at Dubois, PA for my rest stop.
>> Oh, and eventually they’re gonna come for your car.
Rush - Red Barchetta
https://youtu.be/FAvQSkK8Z8U
I usually connect via US-30 between Bedford and Breezewood to get from the PA Turnpike to I-70. That route pretty much avoids the vast majority of Breezewood and saves a couple of buck$.
Breezewood had plenty of gas during the Carter years of rationing based on prior year’s use.
As I recall hearing about Breezewood, this town is unique because you have to exit Interstate 70 and drive through the town before you can get on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
So there was lots of traffic on city streets traveling between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 70.
I drive through there all of the time. What amazes me is that even though there is a HUGE flow of traffic through there business go OUT of business all of the time.
Amanda Kolson Hurley and Edward Burtynsky, two Idiots who believe all that "Green" electricity just appears from nowhere and self-collects into charging stations for free use in Their "look-at-me-I'm-saving-the-planet" bumper sticker tagged Pruismobiles.
After surviving the hell of the pot-holed Pennsylvania Turnpike there is little reprose in Breezewood a glorified truck stop.
Bkmk
I’m extra weird. I actually stayed at a hotel in Breezewood once. I go through a few times a year. Rarely stop.
So there was lots of traffic on city streets traveling between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 70.
The last time I went through Breezewood was on a July Sunday in 2014. I was on my way up I-70 from Maryland (my adopted state), destination Altoona for a couple of days of train watching (Horseshoe Curve, the Gallitzin tunnel, the Amtrak Pennsylvanian stopping in Altoona and Tyrone).
My plan when I hit Breezewood was to cruise up and down Route 30 from one end of town to the other before heading out 30 to Bedford and up I-99 to Altoona (I had no intention of getting on the turnpike, especially with the shakedown toll rate it had by then). Well, seeing that *everybody* was lined up coming to the junction of 70 and 30 (like I said, it was a July Sunday), poised to turn right to get to the turnpike (or the gas stations or hotels), I abandoned the cruising plans and turned left for Bedford.
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“Well, I always take I-80, and liked to get off at Dubois, PA for my rest stop.”
Dubois? That was Michael Jackson’s favorite town.
(To non-PA FReepers...it’s not a French pronunciation)
Same for me. I usually get food and fuel at Clearfield but have done Dubois as well. Clearfield is a little easier on/off.
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