I am from Middletown, PA originally. Unfortunately, no one really knew where Middletown was when I would explain where I was from, so I have always claimed Hershey, PA as my hometown. This wasn't much of a stretch since my dad worked in Hershey, I went to church with people from Hershey, I worked at the amusement park there and also the chocolate factory, and generally spent a lot of time there. More recently, Middletown has regained some of it's fame as it's nuclear power plant was featured in the movie Wolverine. T.M.I., Three Mile Island, was the local of the final fight between Wolverine, Sabertooth, and DeadPool. It is also famous for it's near-nuclear meltdown in 1979.
My home is located in a classy part of town. I grew up with railroad tracks on one side of my house, low-income housing and wanna-be gangsters up the street, the Susquehanna River and the red-neck population to the other side, and a strip club behind our house. I kinda miss my home. The kids with shirts that go down to their knees, where the tops of their jeans were, reciting rap lyrics as they walked alone on the sidewalk. I kinda miss the crazy people in my town: No Neck, The Gun Guy, and the three schizophrenics that would roam around the town. I kinda miss playing tag with my friends around and in the lounge of the strip club (named The Pink Pussycat, then The Pink Pussycat II, and finally Hanger 69) until it burned down in my late childhood.
Speaking of friends, I had an interesting group of friends growing up. My first best friend I've ever had was an interesting kid. He liked the WWF and always wanted to practice moves on me. That's actually how we ended up not being friends anymore. I was kinda mad at him because he tried to show me some SI swimsuit edition and then started trying to do a wrestling move on me. I kinda lost it, reversed the move and hit him hard. He then proceeded to chase me down the street with a bat. I found out that a couple years ago that he escaped out of the bathroom window of a court hearing he had for breaking a restraining order on him from his ex-girlfriend.
Anyway, i hope that gives a bit of a background for who I am and where i come from. I had a very interesting childhood and I could look forward to meeting even more interesting characters as my life went on.
Hi Dan
ReplyDeleteI used to work at the Pink Pussycat II there in Middletown. So did my wife. Both of us were there back in the late 90's. I heard it closed down. There's a couple of terrific ghost stories about the place, one of which occurred to me. Visit my blog if you'd like.
Hi Dan
ReplyDeleteI used to work at the Pink Pussycat II there in Middletown. So did my wife. Both of us were there back in the late 90's. I heard it closed down. There's a couple of terrific ghost stories about the place, one of which occurred to me. Visit my blog if you'd like.