CATCH UP: “I know we should stop harping on the price of gas in
the Bradford area. But after I filled up in Pittsburgh for 128.9
for regular on Oct. 22, I just had to let the readers of Round the
Square know of my good fortune.”

So writes Tony Falconi of Lewis Run who adds, “I also might
mention that a couple of years ago I paid about $5 for a gallon of
gasoline in Italy. Don’t forget, though, they have no oil
refineries that I know of.”

Now that we’re officially back to harping about gas prices in
the Bradford area, a few more reports:

On Monday, we heard from Fred Harris of Bradford who was phoning
from Erie with the gas prices there – $2.19. Same report came from
Jim Flynn who said, “East side of Erie, Sheetz and Country Fair are
selling regular for $2.199 gallon. Most of Erie is at $2.299
gallon.”

Even as of last Friday we heard from Bob Kelly of Bradford who
said gas in Brookville was $2.09 at The Flying J.

LOOK UP: Rocco Camas of Bradford chimes in about our recent
reports of that low-flying B-17 over Derrick City. While he was at
the Beagle Club, he watched a large low-flying plane circle around
in the sky, head toward the airport, go into a glide pattern, and
then go up again.

LOWDOWN: Our recent story on the re-opening of the Downbeat
restaurant brought this response from Tony Pascale:

“Having lived in Bradford for over 30 years and knowing the
Camas family personally, I am glad the new owners of the restaurant
have kept ‘Downbeat’ in the name of the restaurant.

“However, maybe someone at The Era should point out to the new
owners that ‘Abbasso’ does not mean ‘down’ in Italian. ‘Abbasso’
comes from the verb ‘Abbassare’ which means ‘lower’ as in ‘lower
the volume.’

“Other meanings are: ‘turn down,’ ‘wind down,’ ‘take down,’ or
‘bring down.’ ‘Abbasso’ is the first-person, present-tense
conjugation of the verb, ‘Abbassare,’ and would mean, ‘I
lower.’

“Therefore the new name of the restaurant ‘Abbasso at the
Downbeat’ literally means, ‘I lower at the Downbeat,’ which doesn’t
make much sense.

“But I guess it could be translated by using one of the
alternate meanings ‘wind down.’ Then it would mean, ‘I wind down at
the Downbeat.’ I can buy that.”