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One of my great uncles brought an Arisaka back from the pacific, I'll never see it thanks to estranged family members
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Quoted: I might do something stupid. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG #deejthefuckout View Quote Do eeeet |
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Quoted: Quoted: I might do something stupid. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG #deejthefuckout Do eeeet Uhhhh... no. |
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Quoted: I might do something stupid. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG #deejthefuckout View Quote Gross |
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Quoted: Quoted: I might do something stupid. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG #deejthefuckout Gross I kinda like 'em, but not for that kind of stupid money. |
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Quoted: 10,000 For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine. Kinda long but whatever. I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics. My granddaddy left home in his mid teens, I can’t accurately describe his relationship with his dad without painting one of them as a “bad”, which neither of them were, but they both were hard people, which led to head butting. His dad came through the depression, as well as other hard times, so he was not very forgiving or patient. My granddad put the mules up one night and they stated fighting, so to keep one of them from getting hurt (mules were their livelihood) granddaddy departed them by putting one out to pasture. When his dad came home and saw one of the mules out, he got mad (at a fault) and wouldn’t let my grandad explain, so instead of arguing, my grandad left, went up the road to his uncles and lived for a short while. His dad told him that he would come home when he got hungry. A few months later, his brother was sent up the road to tell my grandad to come back home. Granddaddy said, “tell him I’m not hungry yet”. Both were too stubborn to reconcile at the time, which they did a little later fortunately. During this, Pearl Harbor happened and granddaddy joined the Navy at 17 and was assigned to the USS Downes, which was sunk at PH and rebuilt and recommissioned in California. He always said he felt lucky bc most of his ship were veterans, he was one of a few new guys. He was also one of the only southerners, so his Navy nickname was “Reb”. I don’t know much about his Navy time but he was a “torpedo man”. ?? I believe he was in the ship from 43-45, fighting in Eniwetok, Truk, Iwo Jima, Guam, Anatahan, Sargihan, the Philippines, and other places. After the war, he went back home to S. Ga, farmed and owned a general store, then started the contracting business I own today with my brother. As a kid in the early 90s, I would go to his house, and he would tell me about the war. “Son, a boy your age ought not to hear these sorta things, but I’m gonna tell you anyway.” He told me about bodies being hung up in propellers, islands going from post card beautiful one day to smoking ash pits over night, a storm that scared him more than any battle, whales, picking up crashed pilots in the ocean, and drinking beer on Jap islands after battles. So onto my rifle. Dad was born in 50’. So sometime around 58-62, daddy says they were home, and my grandads mom called, asking if she could throw away a duffle bag that had been in a barn or building or whatever. Daddy says granddaddy screamed “No” into the phone and hung up. He and my dad went over to her house and he got the duffle bag, unpacked it, and this carbine was in there. I don’t know if it was assembled or not, but it was packed away in the bag. He started subtly crying and daddy, being very young and naive, asked what was wrong. Granddaddy replied, “son, the man that had this rifle didn’t need it anymore”. Daddy knew his dad for 46 years and says it may possibly be the only time he ever saw him emotional. I don’t know why granddaddy forgot about the rifle at the time or how he actually obtained it. I do know it was on a beach somewhere, and sometimes granddaddy would have to run a small boat onto these beaches after a battle, but I don’t know much about this, I just have to assume that’s how he got it. So daddy had the rifle all of my life and last year he came by the house and said “here, put this in your safe”. So I guess it’s mine now. It’s a Saginaw receiver with Saginaw S’G’ on the receiver, which is supposed to be slightly more rare than others. Serial number puts it prior to May 43’. It has an Inland barrel and RMC Rock-Ola stock. It’s been shot some by my dad and by me as a kid, but it just sits in the safe now. I don’t know if there’s any paper work on it or not, if there is, my dads lying, thieving, definition of evil brother has it, along with any and all other military records or information that I’ll never see. And being he doesn’t have children, he’ll probably set all my grandads stuff on fire before he dies just so no one else will get it. Whatever. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/8F6B2BAA-2AB5-4000-AB24-F9BE44BE26CA_jpe-1390584.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/FB4ED4D8-BFF8-43FF-827C-991FE8EF7D36_jpe-1390586.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/A8B37301-6C8C-40AD-94EE-AE631532FEE6_jpe-1390587.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/22B622DB-DE93-4688-8012-6E2E2807F048_jpe-1390588.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/3612DF91-6693-4C58-9C9F-651D894E5C8D_jpe-1390589.JPG TL;DR and all that, I still love you guys! View Quote Cool gun and story. Recommissioned at Mare Island on 15 November 1943, Downes sailed from San Francisco, California 8 March 1944 to escort convoys to Pearl Harbor and on to Majuro, arriving 26 March. She was assigned to blockade the bypassed Japanese stronghold, Wotje Atoll, until 5 April, then after replenishing at Pearl Harbor, arrived at Eniwetok 6 May for service as harbor entrance control vessel and task unit commander for the offshore patrol. During this duty she rescued a pilot in the lagoon at Eniwetok and four crewmen off Ponape, Caroline Islands. In July Downes began convoy duty from Eniwetok to Saipan in support of the Marianas Islands operation, then patrolled off Tinian during its invasion. She gave fire support at Marpi Point, Tinian, and bombarded Aguijan Island. On 9 October she took part in the bombardment of Marcus Island as a diversion for carrier air strikes on the Nansei Shoto. Downes sailed from Saipan 14 October to join TG 38.1 2 days later in a search for Japanese ships which Admiral William F. Halsey hoped to lure into the open with damaged cruisers Canberra and Houston. The task group returned to Leyte to support the landings there 20 October. Downes sailed the same day for Ulithi but was recalled to screen the carriers during the air strikes on the Japanese Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was detached again 27 October and sailed to Ulithi for replenishment. Continuing to Pearl Harbor for overhaul, Downes returned to Ulithi 29 March 1945 escorting a convoy, then sailed for Guam. From 5 April to 5 June she operated in the Marianas on patrol, air-sea rescue, submarine training, and escort duty. She served at Iwo Jima on similar duty from 9 June. With the end of the war, Downes was ordered to return to the United States and sailed from Iwo Jima 19 September with homeward-bound servicemen on board. She touched at San Pedro, California, called at Beaumont, Texas, for Navy Day celebrations and arrived at Norfolk 5 November. |
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Employer gives union workers the choice to take a leave of absence. 800 choose to do so.
Employer asks salary employees to work production while they’re out. ha_ha.puck |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: So we're keeping the same staffing through May. Fuckin awesome. Just found out one of my wife's co-workers has been layed off, and pay cuts may be coming. I hope this doesn’t come yalls way. We're going into batten down the hatches mode. |
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Quoted: Uh, yeah, usually we just post tit gifs for this sort of thing. Great story And I promise you aren't missing out on any paperwork Curious that the bayonet lug's gone. ETA: heh, durrr, no it isn't. I shouldn't be paying so much attention to this conference call. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 10,000 For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine. Kinda long but whatever. I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics. Uh, yeah, usually we just post tit gifs for this sort of thing. Great story And I promise you aren't missing out on any paperwork Curious that the bayonet lug's gone. ETA: heh, durrr, no it isn't. I shouldn't be paying so much attention to this conference call. You should be spending more time on my problem |
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Quoted: I might do something stupid. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG #deejthefuckout View Quote DI,F |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I might do something stupid. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG #deejthefuckout You're gonna make a YouTube video at a used car lot, buy a Prius, rear end a semi and get rear ended by a semi? fixed |
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Quoted: Yep, at least you’re not a coward and trying to hide the stupid View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I might do something stupid. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG #deejthefuckout I mean if you feel like doing something stupid, that would be boss level Yep, at least you’re not a coward and trying to hide the stupid HEY NOW! |
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Quoted: You should be spending more time on my problem View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 10,000 For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine. Kinda long but whatever. I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics. Uh, yeah, usually we just post tit gifs for this sort of thing. Great story And I promise you aren't missing out on any paperwork Curious that the bayonet lug's gone. ETA: heh, durrr, no it isn't. I shouldn't be paying so much attention to this conference call. You should be spending more time on my problem Like the email I responded to 15 minutes ago? |
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Quoted: I’ve been needing to read that book. Reading some Jane Austen right now, though. Between paper writing sessions. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: JFC, I was just perusing audible and saw that War and Peace is 60 something hours long. That's a no from me dawg. I’ve been needing to read that book. Reading some Jane Austen right now, though. Between paper writing sessions. I've been trying to power through 1984. Next will be Treasure Island I think |
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Quoted: I read most of War and Peace years ago. I quit with a couple hundred pages to go because I got tired of Tolstoy's preachiness. He needed an editor as much as Ayn Rand did. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: JFC, I was just perusing audible and saw that War and Peace is 60 something hours long. That's a no from me dawg. I...uh...I liked Ayn Rand. So maybe War and Peace will be a fun romp through classic Russian literature? |
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Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. View Quote In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. |
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Quoted: In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. Just went there on Google Maps, first restaurant I saw was a British pub |
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Quoted: I...uh...I liked Ayn Rand. So maybe War and Peace will be a fun romp through classic Russian literature? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: JFC, I was just perusing audible and saw that War and Peace is 60 something hours long. That's a no from me dawg. I...uh...I liked Ayn Rand. So maybe War and Peace will be a fun romp through classic Russian literature? |
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Quoted: Just went there on Google Maps, first restaurant I saw was a British pub View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. Just went there on Google Maps, first restaurant I saw was a British pub You should watch Peaky Blinders on netflix, it's pretty great. |
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Quoted: In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. I found a few Mediterranean restaurants within about 30 minutes so when they open I play to give em a whirl. Never considered going to Monterey, CA but I was just looking at Israel |
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Epcot could also be a good place to try lots of different food from varying countries within a short amount of time
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Quoted: Cool gun and story. Recommissioned at Mare Island on 15 November 1943, Downes sailed from San Francisco, California 8 March 1944 to escort convoys to Pearl Harbor and on to Majuro, arriving 26 March. She was assigned to blockade the bypassed Japanese stronghold, Wotje Atoll, until 5 April, then after replenishing at Pearl Harbor, arrived at Eniwetok 6 May for service as harbor entrance control vessel and task unit commander for the offshore patrol. During this duty she rescued a pilot in the lagoon at Eniwetok and four crewmen off Ponape, Caroline Islands. In July Downes began convoy duty from Eniwetok to Saipan in support of the Marianas Islands operation, then patrolled off Tinian during its invasion. She gave fire support at Marpi Point, Tinian, and bombarded Aguijan Island. On 9 October she took part in the bombardment of Marcus Island as a diversion for carrier air strikes on the Nansei Shoto. Downes sailed from Saipan 14 October to join TG 38.1 2 days later in a search for Japanese ships which Admiral William F. Halsey hoped to lure into the open with damaged cruisers Canberra and Houston. The task group returned to Leyte to support the landings there 20 October. Downes sailed the same day for Ulithi but was recalled to screen the carriers during the air strikes on the Japanese Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was detached again 27 October and sailed to Ulithi for replenishment. Continuing to Pearl Harbor for overhaul, Downes returned to Ulithi 29 March 1945 escorting a convoy, then sailed for Guam. From 5 April to 5 June she operated in the Marianas on patrol, air-sea rescue, submarine training, and escort duty. She served at Iwo Jima on similar duty from 9 June. With the end of the war, Downes was ordered to return to the United States and sailed from Iwo Jima 19 September with homeward-bound servicemen on board. She touched at San Pedro, California, called at Beaumont, Texas, for Navy Day celebrations and arrived at Norfolk 5 November. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 10,000 For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine. Kinda long but whatever. I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics. My granddaddy left home in his mid teens, I can’t accurately describe his relationship with his dad without painting one of them as a “bad”, which neither of them were, but they both were hard people, which led to head butting. His dad came through the depression, as well as other hard times, so he was not very forgiving or patient. My granddad put the mules up one night and they stated fighting, so to keep one of them from getting hurt (mules were their livelihood) granddaddy departed them by putting one out to pasture. When his dad came home and saw one of the mules out, he got mad (at a fault) and wouldn’t let my grandad explain, so instead of arguing, my grandad left, went up the road to his uncles and lived for a short while. His dad told him that he would come home when he got hungry. A few months later, his brother was sent up the road to tell my grandad to come back home. Granddaddy said, “tell him I’m not hungry yet”. Both were too stubborn to reconcile at the time, which they did a little later fortunately. During this, Pearl Harbor happened and granddaddy joined the Navy at 17 and was assigned to the USS Downes, which was sunk at PH and rebuilt and recommissioned in California. He always said he felt lucky bc most of his ship were veterans, he was one of a few new guys. He was also one of the only southerners, so his Navy nickname was “Reb”. I don’t know much about his Navy time but he was a “torpedo man”. ?? I believe he was in the ship from 43-45, fighting in Eniwetok, Truk, Iwo Jima, Guam, Anatahan, Sargihan, the Philippines, and other places. After the war, he went back home to S. Ga, farmed and owned a general store, then started the contracting business I own today with my brother. As a kid in the early 90s, I would go to his house, and he would tell me about the war. “Son, a boy your age ought not to hear these sorta things, but I’m gonna tell you anyway.” He told me about bodies being hung up in propellers, islands going from post card beautiful one day to smoking ash pits over night, a storm that scared him more than any battle, whales, picking up crashed pilots in the ocean, and drinking beer on Jap islands after battles. So onto my rifle. Dad was born in 50’. So sometime around 58-62, daddy says they were home, and my grandads mom called, asking if she could throw away a duffle bag that had been in a barn or building or whatever. Daddy says granddaddy screamed “No” into the phone and hung up. He and my dad went over to her house and he got the duffle bag, unpacked it, and this carbine was in there. I don’t know if it was assembled or not, but it was packed away in the bag. He started subtly crying and daddy, being very young and naive, asked what was wrong. Granddaddy replied, “son, the man that had this rifle didn’t need it anymore”. Daddy knew his dad for 46 years and says it may possibly be the only time he ever saw him emotional. I don’t know why granddaddy forgot about the rifle at the time or how he actually obtained it. I do know it was on a beach somewhere, and sometimes granddaddy would have to run a small boat onto these beaches after a battle, but I don’t know much about this, I just have to assume that’s how he got it. So daddy had the rifle all of my life and last year he came by the house and said “here, put this in your safe”. So I guess it’s mine now. It’s a Saginaw receiver with Saginaw S’G’ on the receiver, which is supposed to be slightly more rare than others. Serial number puts it prior to May 43’. It has an Inland barrel and RMC Rock-Ola stock. It’s been shot some by my dad and by me as a kid, but it just sits in the safe now. I don’t know if there’s any paper work on it or not, if there is, my dads lying, thieving, definition of evil brother has it, along with any and all other military records or information that I’ll never see. And being he doesn’t have children, he’ll probably set all my grandads stuff on fire before he dies just so no one else will get it. Whatever. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/8F6B2BAA-2AB5-4000-AB24-F9BE44BE26CA_jpe-1390584.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/FB4ED4D8-BFF8-43FF-827C-991FE8EF7D36_jpe-1390586.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/A8B37301-6C8C-40AD-94EE-AE631532FEE6_jpe-1390587.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/22B622DB-DE93-4688-8012-6E2E2807F048_jpe-1390588.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/3612DF91-6693-4C58-9C9F-651D894E5C8D_jpe-1390589.JPG TL;DR and all that, I still love you guys! Cool gun and story. Recommissioned at Mare Island on 15 November 1943, Downes sailed from San Francisco, California 8 March 1944 to escort convoys to Pearl Harbor and on to Majuro, arriving 26 March. She was assigned to blockade the bypassed Japanese stronghold, Wotje Atoll, until 5 April, then after replenishing at Pearl Harbor, arrived at Eniwetok 6 May for service as harbor entrance control vessel and task unit commander for the offshore patrol. During this duty she rescued a pilot in the lagoon at Eniwetok and four crewmen off Ponape, Caroline Islands. In July Downes began convoy duty from Eniwetok to Saipan in support of the Marianas Islands operation, then patrolled off Tinian during its invasion. She gave fire support at Marpi Point, Tinian, and bombarded Aguijan Island. On 9 October she took part in the bombardment of Marcus Island as a diversion for carrier air strikes on the Nansei Shoto. Downes sailed from Saipan 14 October to join TG 38.1 2 days later in a search for Japanese ships which Admiral William F. Halsey hoped to lure into the open with damaged cruisers Canberra and Houston. The task group returned to Leyte to support the landings there 20 October. Downes sailed the same day for Ulithi but was recalled to screen the carriers during the air strikes on the Japanese Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was detached again 27 October and sailed to Ulithi for replenishment. Continuing to Pearl Harbor for overhaul, Downes returned to Ulithi 29 March 1945 escorting a convoy, then sailed for Guam. From 5 April to 5 June she operated in the Marianas on patrol, air-sea rescue, submarine training, and escort duty. She served at Iwo Jima on similar duty from 9 June. With the end of the war, Downes was ordered to return to the United States and sailed from Iwo Jima 19 September with homeward-bound servicemen on board. She touched at San Pedro, California, called at Beaumont, Texas, for Navy Day celebrations and arrived at Norfolk 5 November. Thanks! |
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Quoted: Just went there on Google Maps, first restaurant I saw was a British pub View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. Just went there on Google Maps, first restaurant I saw was a British pub Crown & Anchor, Britannia Arms, or the British Bulldog? |
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Quoted: I found a few Mediterranean restaurants within about 30 minutes so when they open I play to give em a whirl. Never considered going to Monterey, CA but I was just looking at Israel View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. I found a few Mediterranean restaurants within about 30 minutes so when they open I play to give em a whirl. Never considered going to Monterey, CA but I was just looking at Israel Monterey is great because the Defense Language Institute is right there. They have almost 100% native instructors, and they usually have brought over their whole family. And the families often start restaurants, so there are restaurants all over the area offering very authentic cuisine from all over the world. It’s...amazing. |
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