From: owner-alloy-digest To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V1 #77 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, 23 October 1996 Volume 01 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Fwd: The sincerest form of flattery Re: Alloy: Fwd: The sincerest form of flattery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Hargreaves Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 07:37:49 +0100 Subject: Re: Alloy: Fwd: The sincerest form of flattery At 18:06 21/10/96 -0400, Melissa wrote: >In general, I am beginning to believe that there is no such thing as >coincidence... > >I remember napping on a British Rail train once, only to awake as we passed >White City. I was really freaked out. Wasn't White City some sort of >planned community experiment gone awry? >(Coincidentally, "White City" is a favorite cd of mine, and it's in my car >along with "The Flat Earth" right now. Hmmmmm...) > >Cheers, > >Melissa Friends, I don't know if White City was a "planned community" but I DO live about two miles away from what's left of it, in Old Trafford. It used to be a stadium and was the Manchester dog track for many years. All that's left now is the original entrance, a large white arch with wrought iron gates, behind which is a retail development and its car park, where, coincidentally, my son works part time at a DIYsuperstore. The train line in question is still there, though it may be the one that's been converted to a tram line now, for the new Manchester Metrolink. I'll see if I can find out why it was called The White City in the first place. Watch this space. Slarvibarglhee alias Bill Hargreaves I.T. Administrator Government Office for the North West (UK) mail to bhargreaves.gonw.wh@gtnet.gov.uk ------------------------------ From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:56:09 -0400 Subject: Re: Alloy: Fwd: The sincerest form of flattery >I don't know if White City was a "planned community" but I DO live about two >miles away from what's left of it, in Old Trafford. It used to be a stadium >and was the Manchester dog track for many years... >... I'll see if I can find out why it was called The White City in the first place. Bill - Much obliged. I don't remember where/when I'd heard that "planned community" thing - it may have been in this awful "Socialist Urban Planning" course I misguidedly took in college... (Okay, I took the course almost exclusively because it was taught by a visiting professor from Cambridge. Turned into a nightmare from hell because he was accustomed to teaching in the British one class/one lecture a week format rather than the American four classes a week style. We looked at slides of the same planned communities and Stalinist apartment buildings over and over again. Yeesh. It was excrutiatingly boring - I know from my grades that I must have slept through most of it.) Looking forward to what you uncover! Cheers, Melissa - ------------------- Melissa R. Jordan - ------------------- Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V1 #77 **************************