Robert Buckle was talking about people who don't know where some
building is that they're standing in front of.

A group of us went to Grinnell, Iowa, to see the Sullivan bank.
We pulled off the interstate (designed to bypass the town, and
I guess that's not a bad thing, at least we don't have a semi
hitting the bank) and into a coffee shop where we ate breakfast.

When we asked where the Louis Sullivan bank was, most of the
folks in the place, on either side of the counter, had no idea
what we were talking about.  But one man said, "They mean the
 --- bank," and I confess at the moment I don't remember what the
(corporate) name of the bank was at that time, but he had it right,
and he gave us directions.

Actually you can't miss it!  but we didn't know that yet.

p.s. if you haven't seen it, as Michelin would say, ***
(vaut le voyage).  In other words, don't go to Iowa without
leaving time for an hour in Grinnell: five minutes to find the bank
and fifty-five minutes with your heart pounding.

> Date:    Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:07:52 -0700
> From:    Robert Buckle <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: "history isn't everywhere"
>
> I recently spent a week in Toronto on a Tuesday in November. I had a few
> a places to go that were mostly unknown to the locals. I asked various
> people who worked at Eatons and few other places for directions on how to
> get to the Royal York. They told me they hadn't heard of it and didn't
> know where it was. Its only a few blocks from where they worked. I
> thought this was an interesting so I asked various people the locations
> of buildings I could see across the street. All except for one did not
> know where they were. ...