04-28-2011, 08:26 PM
Those "stones" paved a lot of the streets in Old Colonial Philadelphia. When I was living in Center City, going to school and working for the architect in the summer, I would go out and ride my 10-speed Atala around for three or four hours every night during the summer. It was good exercise and cheap entertainment (I once saw a hit down near 9th and Washington - the Italian Market ... where Rocky was running and the old man tossed him an orange - I've never confessed to that before, for obvious reasons.)
But I digress ... those streets were damn rough on my skinny little tires ... and they looked just like Steve's and the ones in Andrew's second link! We always called them cobblestones, but if you want to nit-pick, when the two italian guys show up at my door, I'll tell the you moved and they should look for you in ....
But I digress ... those streets were damn rough on my skinny little tires ... and they looked just like Steve's and the ones in Andrew's second link! We always called them cobblestones, but if you want to nit-pick, when the two italian guys show up at my door, I'll tell the you moved and they should look for you in ....
8-) 
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln