Spumoni and Sicilian Pizza!

Spumoni Gardens History

First, I would like to start by saying Happy Thanksgiving. Second, this sign is the one in front of the famous Spumoni Gardens that has the best spumoni and sicilian pizza (and the only spumoni and sicilian pizza) I have ever had. Spumoni is kind of like a mix of Italian Ice and ice cream and usually comes in chocolate and pistachio. I don't have enough time to post much more so there is a link at the top. It isn't much but it will have to do.

The Greatest City in the World!

I have now decided to do about a weeks worth of posts about New York City. I'm not quite sure why but it seems kind of appropriate with the Macy's parade and everything else going on in the city. First, I will start with a sign from Wall Street. It is America's financial capital (if you don't get the joke don't bother) and of course is where millions of stocks are traded, bought, and sold. The buildings are very magnificent especially on the inside. The only reason I know this is because my daring aunt and I ventured into one like we knew what we were doing and walked out as if we had just concluded an important meeting even though we were only inside for about 1 minute. I don't think we would have been in any trouble in the first place but when venturing into a random building you don't know the rules so we just decided to play it safe. A little bit of history: Wall Street History. 

Clarification.

After Man at Coined For Money featured me in a post about nickels I thought I should clarify why I call anything pre-1965 old. It is mainly because of the switch from silver to cu-ni (Copper-Nickel) in the dime, quarter, and half dollar. It is also because I have many 1964 nickels. The story pretty much goes like this: I went to a gas station to get some snacks, I got what I needed, I got in line and paid, I checked the change and discovered a 1964-D nickel. Being as young as I am (my age is not specified on this blog) this was exciting and was a great addition to my collection esp. because of the mint mark being on the back and my collection was only change finds not things I buy like I do now (even though I still look through change to try to find interesting coins). Since then I have found several 1964s and 1964-Ds although the 1964-Ds seem to dominate my finds despite me living on the east coast. I later found out that 2,811,969,190 were made that year at both Philadelphia and Denver with Denver having made slightly more than Philadelphia. I suppose that explains why I have found so many and why I have more Denvers but I would think more people would pay attention to their change to see if they had anything interesting. Then again today my mom asked me about a 2004 Keelboat nickel and said she had never noticed one in her change before so I guess not.

I hate (internet) Spam!

This post is completely irrelavent to numismatics (coin collecting for any new collectors out there) but I feel I must post it. While going through the views of this blog I found that many people had visited but few comments were left. I did a little investigation and figured out that most were scammers and spammers trying to prey on the innocent with promise of riches and all sorts of other junk and some were good people like Man at Coined For Money who actually came to post a comment and read my blog. Luckily I have the word verification which is supposed to help keep comments with  spam away. It works fine now but as technology advances I don't know what will become of the web with so many weirdos out there. I guess the only way to get rid of the problems is to get rid of the people...