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Category Archives: Hawthorne
March Grand Opening For Train Station Cafe
It is a March opening for what will be known as “Station Cafe & Grill,” according to a new sign on the Hawthorne train station building. (Not quite the 2-3 weeks the owner told me January 18, but we’ll be … Continue reading
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Punta Cana Getting New Owner
Sometimes you just kind of stumble upon local news. We stopped by the Punta Cana restaurant, which opened on Hawthorne’s tiny main drag just over two years ago, to see about doing a short interview with the owner about how … Continue reading
A Hitch-Biker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Four for four, folks. Yes, four times in the past two weeks, with rain in the air, on the ground, and in the forecast, I set out on foot for Hawthorne station. And four times, I was picked up by … Continue reading
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Details Emerge on New Hawthorne Cafe
We got a sneak peek at the soon to open Hawthorne train station cafe today. Here’s what we learned: It’s slated to open in 2-3 weeks, owner Gerry Petraglia doesn’t have a name for it yet, and it’s an attractive … Continue reading
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TRAINJOTTING TURNS 5: Gluttony
Each day this week, to commemorate our fifth birthday, Trainjotting is publishing memorable posts from the past, grouped under a specific Seven Deadly Sin. Today’s sin is GLUTTONY. Previously ran August 2011. We commuters were gluttons for punishment that day. … Continue reading
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TRAINJOTTING TURNS 5: Sloth
From December 2009: An Open Letter to: Posted on December 17, 2009 by TJ The Buffalo Wing Eating Slob on the 5:46. Sir. This is your second appearance on An Open Letter to, and that’s two too many. Just 2 … Continue reading
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Happiest of Holidays from Trainjotting
We are going off the rails for a spell after today to partake in typical holiday activities. We leave you with The Inevitable Twas the Night Before Christmas parody, which we first ran in 2008. Happy holidays, or, as we … Continue reading
Waiting For Good Joe
So if you had July in the when-will-Hawthorne’s-new-station-cafe-open? pool, you lost. If you had August, or September, or October, or November, and probably December too, for the grand opening of the Train Delay Cafe, you lost. But there is a … Continue reading
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Train Delay Cafe to Open…Soonish
I got it from a good source over the weekend that the long awaited coffee shop going in the Hawthorne train station is well underway, after the project manager got a good bollocking from the town for taking so long. … Continue reading
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The Key to Snagging the Best Seat on the Train
Many daily commuters have a little bit of “That’s MY seat!” O.Seat.D. in them, but perhaps no one has it worse than a man I’ve written about before, who simply has to have the folding 1 3/4-seaters that are completely set … Continue reading
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