i have to go to philly for a day and will be driving. give me some good road trip suggestions.

when?

Get on the blue route, and drive your car into an embankment.

blue route
look at loog talking like a local.

thanks for the help guys.

from where?

i'd just suggest taking in the schuylkil at night to see the boathouses.

no, no...driving music

are you looking for something that's gonna reflect your surroundings or just road music in general? If it's the former, I'd load up some Gamble and Huff stuff, early Coltrane, King Britt's Adventures in Lo-Fi... I don't know, it really depends where you're driving and what sort of shit you normally like to listen to.




you're an idiot. and the blue route isn't in Philly.

It's somewhere around there.

Swervedriver

it's about one minute outside of philly.

So, one could, conceivably, drive on it, if headed TO PHILLY?

very much so, yes.

if you were heading in from the suburbs, yes.

Well, I thought that Dr. Baldyhatesgeorgia would be coming from Nashville, and that the fastest route would take him up 76 and 81...into the western suburbs (you are aware that suburbs surround a city, so when heading to one, you could, conceivably pass by or through a few of them?)

look, i'm just trying to give the guy some credit it for calling it the blue route. there are no signs anywhere in existance that call it the blue route.

do other cities do this too? name streets one thing, even though the signs say something else.

To get to the ballpark you can take the Schuylkill Expressway to the Vine Street to Delaware Avenue and at no point see a sign with any of those names.

(Rt 76 to 676 to Columbus Blvd)

I was gonna drop Schuykill, but Blue Route was stuck in my head.

The Blue Route was names because all of the extensions of the '76' extension highways were all drawn up around the same time. This would include the Vine St Expressway (676), the Blue Route (476), the 422 extension and I believe a 276, but I could be mixing a few things. Anyway, there were a few different possibilities on each of the designs. The plans for 476 had different color codings on the proposal maps for each version. The one that was finally decided upon was the one colored blue. It was followed closely in all the local papers since there was a lot of property that was being bought up by the gov't and the planners. Everyone knew the different routes at the time.

Then, after the 'Blue' route was finally decided upon, there were money crunches that resulted in a huge delay of actually completing the Blue Route. It was a huge, unfininished debacle (not unlike Boston's Big Dig).

So with all the discussion about the road and all the stuff that went on - it just stuck. Everyone knew it around there as the Blue Route.

Anyway - so there you go. That's a little muddled history of the Blue Route.

Yeah, I grew up around there and my wife's family is all right off the Blue Route. I grew up out in Collegeville - which is about 40 minutes outside the city out 422.

And getting back to the original discussion - music:

Listen to some Marah, Three Four Tens, Bloodhound Gang, Dead Milkmen, Hooters, Disco Biscuits and as mentioned earlier, King Britt. That should cover a bunch of the Philly scenes.

Vegetable Man gets a gold star

fair enough. and I'm just being a stickler for the asshole comment. but there's still no way he'd end up on the blue route driving into philly unless he missed an exit.

You took it outta context, prolly. That was directed at Patrick because of all his anti-UGA bile, not at your fair city.
Actually, I think I have a shot at a job just because the person I interviewed with was from Philly.

But, has Patrick been wrong? Is he wrong, Loog?

I mean, that unbeaten & unscored upon until 2041 nonsense is looking about as accurate as however inaccurate as you consider Patrick's points to be.

dudes...cash money and marvelous...cmon...