The Outskirts of Suburbia: April 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018

Year 12, Day 3

Daisies on the outskirts of Pittsburgh

Turnpike Troubadours at the 2017 Wing-Off

Cumberland, Maryland

Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Orioles vs. Cardinals

Baltimore, Maryland

Towanda, Bradford County, Pa

Sunflowers on the State Game Lands

Green Spring, Pa

White Oak Lavender Farm

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Family Time at Whitetail Resort

Mercersburg, Pa

Eagle Watching

Conowingo Dam, Maryland

Snow in the Dunes

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

LOVEworks

Chincoteague Island, Virginia

US Capitol

Washington, DC

Groundhog Day

Punxsutawney, Pa

The neighborhood lighthouse

Wilmington (Bellefonte), Delaware

Spectrum Field

Phillies vs. Orioles

Clearwater, Florida

Vero Beach South, Florida

Marlins Park

Marlins vs. Cubs

Miami, Florida

Lancaster City Bureau of Fire

Station 3

Lancaster, Pa.

Time for another year end review. Believe it or not Saturday marked my 11th anniversary here on the interwebs. Hard to fathom that I haven't run out of things to post. The past year has been busy. Not as much travel as I would like but I hopefully can make up for that this coming year. Plans are in the works for something new this fall and something else new next spring. I also foresee another trip to the Sunshine State before the end of summer. But as always more baseball, more firehouses, more of whatever I can escape to. As for the blogs: In the past year I posted 331 times and I had 28,682 pageviews (208,962 all time - 11 years), that's more than 5000 more views than last year. So cross your fingers and wish me well, look out Year 12 here we come.

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Plymouth Community Ambulance Association

Plymouth Community Ambulance Association, 204 East Main Street, Norristown, Pa. Montgomery County EMS Station 308-A. PCAA began operations in 1962 and currently serve 11 municipalities, out of 4 stations. The Main station in Plymouth Meeting, Station A (this station) in Norristown, Station B in East Norriton and Station C in Schwenksville. Station A was built in 2012 and serves the City of Norristown and Plymouth Township.

Humane Hose Company

Humane Hose Company, 129 East Main Street, Norristown, Pa. Montgomery County Station 27C. Organized on July 27, 1852, they first housed their equipment at the old Norris Hose station on Dekalb Street. Then moved to their first firehouse on Airy Street near the Courthouse in 1854. The current building was built and dedicated May 12, 1888. Due to a lack of volunteers they merged with the Norristown Hose Fire Company on January 1, 2012.
In June 2014 the firehouse was sold to Five Saints Distillery, which opened in January 2016.