Sullivan's Trail

mr1precision wrote:That looked like Obama's vision for America....

You got that right! Trying to starve us and freeze us to death!

I believe that was more of the brown fields recession times, a bit before Obama. I think it may have been, no I`m not going to say, I might get in trouble.

These pictures remind me of a time I got off the interstate and headed cross rural West VA. It seemed like on every curve there was an abandoned triple or breaker. Of course that was bit coal but still it spoke of a time gone by. It was almost as if you took the time you could hear the conversations and stories of the miners and their towns. Much is to be learned if we take the time. Stay warm, Lisa

Gee, thats a long way to go for a beer! huh Smitty?

16 miles, 16 tons...... they were tough then...

Poconoeagle wrote:Gee, thats a long way to go for a beer! huh Smitty?

16 miles, 16 tons...... they were tough then...

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Is that sign in Tannersville by a tavern that burnt down ?

yes it is ! its across from the new turkey hill next to Steeles hardware

Thought I reconized it, parked within easy reading distance of it a time or two...

At one time rt 611 was a main stagecoach route I understand, thus the Tannersville Inn (180 yrs old) http://www.tannersvilleinn.com/
as well as the ole Swiftwater Inn ( aka the Swifty) since 1778, http://www.piofthepoconos.com/swiftwaternews.html , were popular places for a nite's rest....

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.d ... /705130329

another "progress" bad decision..... it was a cool place, good food.....

My dad has a place in Tobyhanna, we go there often for a couple years now. I remember seeing the swiftwater inn but it was closed. Now it is gone. I will be in Tobyhanna in Feb 19th and 20th for a long weekend. I may have to stop by the Tannersville inn. (My wife and kids are into that ghost stuff so I should be able to talk them into it)

offcoursey wrote:My dad has a place in Tobyhanna, we go there often for a couple years now. I remember seeing the swiftwater inn but it was closed. Now it is gone. I will be in Tobyhanna in Feb 19th and 20th for a long weekend. I may have to stop by the Tannersville inn. (My wife and kids are into that ghost stuff so I should be able to talk them into it)

Cool! give a shout out before you come. a small stones throw ( 300 ft) right up from the ole swifty is the pocono candle shoppe!

recently on the Animal Planet for its haunted ghost issues!!! now thats the place to stop also...
http://www.thecandleshoppeofthepoconos. ... &priorId=0

Candle shop is one our 'must stop' places each trip. We also must go to Callie's candies and pretzels. Don't leave out the cheap movie in Mount Pocono! I'm not sure of the town they are in, I just know how to get to them(haha). We stay in Pocono Country Place...

ha ha I am going to the theater tonite at 7 for the "True Grit" movie!! dinner there first!

http://www.casinotheatre.net/

its the coolest too!! I work about 500 feet from it

We go to the trading post too...they won't sell the old cash register to me!...I ask everytime I'm there. We were there years ago and the old lady there gave my daughter a stuffed bear that is her favorite toy..goes everywhere with her still. we need more things to see and do while we are there...cheap.

go past the pretzel factory a bit and stop into Price's lumber... been there 100 yrs... they heat the place with a hand fired coal boiler with a gravity system and huge cast iron radiators.... dad down stairs looking at the coolest old stuff and mom and girls up stairs for hours at the largest doll collection...and stuff!!

its in Mountainhome on 390....