White Plains



My first visit to this city in Westchester County, New York was in 1973. I was being considered for a computer programming position there. My wife and I drove up there to just check things out. I did not get the job and would have to wait another three years to enter the world of software design in Kansas City.

In the late 1980s I worked with fellow AT&T designers in White Plains and visited there several times. I have memories of staying at the Crown Plaza hotel and eating at an Irish pub. Trivia-wise, White Plains is about 25 miles north of downtown Manhattan in a very scenic part of New York state. About 58,000 live there but the daytime weekday population is about 250,000.


... a place that I have been to ... part of the A to Z series.

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  1. My second wife was born and raised in White Plains. She has gone on before. RIP, Ellie.

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    1. Thanks for sharing that David. You should have probably written this post. You probably know more about White Plains than I do.

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  2. I think I visited White Plains as a kid with my folks. Too bad you didn't get the job, bit then every thing is in God's timing.

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    1. It would have been interesting to get that job in WP Gregg. Doubtful that I would have ever got to KC. Then again, you never know.

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