Dinasaur Data

I admit I’m a dinosaur.  I love reading the Daily Local News and The Philadelphia Inquirer daily, and I say to all the newspaper putdown artists that you don’t know the story from the headlines, you gotta read the backstory.  Some of my favorite writers are journalists because it’s a calling.  They do a great civic service and they’re not obviously not in it for the money. 

I bring this up because someone stole our two newspaper boxed that were dug in real well next to our mailbox. Figured it was some anti-intellectual brute.  Because our mailbox—bashed at least 4 other times—unscathed.  Debated whether to email our buddy Curt Martinez, chief at our township police, because he has better things to do. But decided to do it since there might be a pattern in the neighborhood and who knows what the weasels might do next?  Curt got right back seriously and said there’d been other vandalisms, so maybe it wasn’t person.  The “Monk” in me wouldn’t give up looking for ‘em, and I found them in the field near the road.  They’d probably been walking.  The perp is still at-large.

Speaking of dinosaurs, machine shops are almost extinct.  My Dad’s shop, LG Industries, has been around for 70 yrs. under various owners since he sold it in 1979.  Now the remaining machines in the building have just been removed.  Some of those machines were around when I was a kid.  And, like most things in America, built to last. So the last of the Layton Family cooties left with them. We even noticed that one of them was  being put in a container (on a  semi truck bed) with a Chinese company name on it. So probably bound for China.      Now the plant will become mainly storage and assemblage for water filtration systems for Roberts Industries. At least the buildings still stand but it was mighty sad to see things being packed up..