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Funny....

You are thinking about retiring from Alaska to PA, and I would probably rather move from PA and retire in Alaska....

Sullivan County is still a happenin' place. Population about 6200. http://www.sullivancounty-pa.org/ Good fishin', good huntin', good people.

Yep, beautiful country. I hiked the Rickets Glen Falls loop about 15 years ago. I think a portion of it is located in Sullivan County. I've also fished Hunter's Lake on several occassions.

I wouldn't mind retiring there, either. I have a MUCH greater chance of getting my wife to move from Schuylkill to Sullivan county than I do to Alaska, or any other state for that matter.

There is a small town in NW PA called Lickingville. The
Pittsburg Pirates are refered to as "Buccos", Roberto Clemente
was Bob Clemente. Deer are "jack lighted" not poached. Everyone
used a 30-30 or a 35 Rem for deer when they were growing up.
There is also a town called Titusville were vaseline was invented.

I was in Titusville a year ago. I went to see the Drake Oil Well and museum.

Pittsburg, PA was originally FT Pitt in the 1700s, lots of history there, war, blood shed, etc.

Man, I haven't heard "jack lighted" since I was a kid.
Titusville is where the oil boom started. So long whale oil.

Another term for poaching was "speed beef".

I was born in Erie. Some of this is familiar. I always call cold-cuts "lunch meat". I thought everybody did. My grandmother always called her purse a "pocketbook".

Erie is a town with plenty of ethnic private clubs. For a small city they probably have more private clubs than anywhere I've ever seen. I was just in Erie last summer and was at the Polish Falcon's Club for a breakfast fundraiser and none of us are Polish. My father was able to drink at their bar when he was 17.

Ox Roast and City Chicken, I think, are pretty unique Erie things.

Butler, right? I bought tickets from you years back (when I lived in TN) for the gun raffle/sportsmans day at the Fairgrounds.

I probably knew your fiance's uncle. Seemed like there were only about four officers there! One was in my unit when I was Air Guard down in Pgh.

I was on the other side of Rt 8, across from Camp Bucoco. I do miss living there...

Nope, a neat little restaurant/bar in Slippery Rock.

http://www.gingerhilltavern.com/

Not all that long ago, Slippery Rock was a dry town. Then they changed their ways, and I think that Ginger Hill was the first to get a liquor license.

As chumleyhunts said, North Country Brewing, just down Main Street a few buildings, is another good one....

Another place that used to be neat, but is now out of business, was the Wolf Creek Schoolhouse. Literally a one room schoolhouse that they moved across town and turned in to a restaurant. I took my wife there for dinner once about 16-17 years ago, while we were dating. It was snowing hard, and I was in 4WD "in town", just to get down the roads. We were the only people there that night (I'm still surprised they were even open). They had a real fireplace, and had it going strong that night. We sat right by the fireplace, and had the place to ourselves. Almost felt like being at home, but with somebody else cooking and a waitress serving us. What an evening....

One of my favorite local PA town names - Lycippus. Officially pronounced as "lie-sip-us", but everyone jokingly refers to it as "lick-a-puss"

Thank god they didn't do that to Blue Ball.

Lyciblue Ball.

My folks are all from there ( just over the hill ..Gowen City )

I wonder if the Glen Burn still gives tours on Sunday?

I remember a tavern called the "Zig Zag Bar" which reminds me
I havent had an Iron City beer in a long time.

A number of years ago I met an older gentleman who lived over by Libby, MT. Got to talking and he said he served in the 8th Air Force in Britain in WWII. I mentioned it was my understanding that my grandfather was also in Britain with the 8th Air Force during that time. The gentleman didn't recall my grandfather by name, but did say they had a lot of "Pennsyltuckians" over there. First time I'd heard that phrase.

Colonel Grabreski, who I believe was the leading P-47 ace in WWII, at least in the ETO, was from Oil City.

And only one traffic light in the whole county that I remember...in Dushore.

There was a bar in Bellefonte called: Carl's Bad Tavern.

Is gas 'still 85 cents a gallon' at that gas station by that burger king??