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The first thing that comes to your mind when someone says Chester, Pa is?

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  1. Mark H says:
    May 28, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    I’d comment honestly, but the post might be edited for language 🙂

  2. Unstable Isotope says:
    May 28, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    I95 on the way to the airport.

  3. El Somnambulo says:
    May 28, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    Laundromat.

  4. kilroy says:
    May 28, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    phenylcyclohexylpiperidine

  5. Rod says:
    May 28, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    Soccer! I can’ wait.

  6. nemski says:
    May 28, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Casino!

  7. a. price says:
    May 28, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    doors locked, speed up.

  8. Dave M. says:
    May 28, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    Motorcyle, thinking I’m way too cool, Chester-Crozier Burn Center.

  9. Dave M. says:
    May 28, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    You should have seen the poor possum though.

  10. RSmitty says:
    May 28, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Prison (great view from the R2 line…when I used to commute to Philly).

  11. Delaware Republican says:
    May 28, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    When I ran a three state Marine Corps recruiting station, Chester was one of the few schools we did not recruit applicants. That was 20 years ago.

    Here is a post on what is wrong and what needs to be done for Chester.
    http://delawarerepublican.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/the-failure-of-cities-like-chester-pa/

    Wilmington, without the corporations and legal community is on its way to becoming Chester.

    Mike Protack

  12. Von Cracker says:
    May 28, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    Like Wilmington, it’s a city decimated by the construction of I95.

  13. andy1 says:
    May 29, 2009 at 8:15 am

    traffic bottleneck on I95. been there; done that, too many times.

  14. andy1 says:
    May 29, 2009 at 8:17 am

    traffic bottleneck on I95 24/7/365

  15. Dorian Gray says:
    May 29, 2009 at 9:13 am

    Like VC I work in Chester. I get off at the Highland Av train platform and walk to the office building on the river on a regular basis.

    Decline in manufacturing and I95 construction killed this place. Frankly, though, the place gets a bad rap. It’s very rough (think West Baltimore in The Wire), but I’m a tax payer (as Omar would say) so it’s relatively safe.

    I will echo Rod’s sentiments though. Union unavail their new boss today (ex Poland international and US assistant Peter Nowak). The new ground is being built right next to the office. I am pretty excited!

  16. Another Mike says:
    May 29, 2009 at 9:22 am

    Hope I don’t hit any red lights.

  17. RSmitty says:
    May 29, 2009 at 9:38 am

    Here is a post on what is wrong and what needs to be done for Chester.
    http://delawarerepublican.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/the-failure-of-cities-like-chester-pa/

    There’s a solution for everything, no? It’s like one-stop shopping there.

  18. skippertee says:
    May 29, 2009 at 10:55 am

    All you high and mighty types putting down Chester must imagine your feces is odorless.Chester came in second, per capita,in sending boys to die in S.E.Asia.The boys from the city in the middle of a refinery inspired The Boss to write:Born in the U.S.A.So go fuck yourselves!

  19. AnnieMack says:
    May 29, 2009 at 11:43 am

    We all have to live and work somewhere. It’s bad form to insult anyone’s home. I live in New Castle and I get tired of the insults. The grass is NOT greener where you live. We all have crime, pollution, and crooked politicians. Someone in Chester gave a job to guy who has been out of work for 6 months. For that, they deserve better than what they got in this thread.

  20. arthur says:
    May 29, 2009 at 11:45 am

    The town governor markell will blame for teh steep drop in betting revenue after PA passes a law to allow table gambling.

  21. RSmitty says:
    May 29, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    To get back to more light-heartedness from the guilt trips, in my senior year of HS (at Mt Pleasant…apparently now referred to Mt Pregnant…), our baseball team played against Chester HS at their field. Our road unis were solid green with white writing. It was bad. As it turns out, their home unis were solid orange. We were freaking a cucumber and carrot salad out there. It really was an ugly site to see with those unis on the field.

    FTR (and this is for the guilt-trippers), as our bus was coming in to Chester, some guys on the street flipped us their affectionate “#1” signs and a couple yelled some real nice stuff (read the sarcasm there), too. However, after the game, on the field, every single player thanked each of us, during the opposing, single-line hand shake thing, for coming up and playing them, as did their coaches. It was real nice, but as high schoolers, most of us didn’t get it. It was on the bus ride home, that our coach explained that they have extreme difficulty getting high schools outside of their division (conference or whatever) to play there. Almost every non-division game for them is on the road and you can figure out why. What I remember, more cleary than being sneered at from people on the sidewalk, was the extreme politeness and genuiness of the Chester HS players.

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