"It's very diverse," said Bernard Francis, a graphic artist from Greenlawn and the organizer of the two-hour pickup game.
He compares it to "a 24-hour pickup basketball game," and says it brought past presidencies and even ancient kingships to life: the "West Wing was a vantage point from which one could see the widest expanse of American politics".
With more than 800,000 Facebook fans and legions of loyal customers, Tide will draw people into the franchise stores, and superior service -- which includes drive-through service, 24-hour pickup and cleaning methods it markets as environmentally safer -- will keep them coming back, company officials predict.
The City Council on Tuesday voted 5 to 0 to scale back the 24-hour pickup service to comply with guidelines imposed by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.
One is to spend hours and hours in pickup games — in parks, streets, alleyways — on imperfect surfaces that, if mastered, can give a competitor an advantage when he finally graduates to groomed fields.
He squeezed in an hour of pickup basketball at a downtown athletic club between a speech at a school and a visit to the Chicago Tribune's editorial board.
It's also important to call half an hour before pickup time to make sure that there are no misunderstandings.
He made it a point to attend every one of their games and recitals, spent hours playing pickup in the park, and he was in Philadelphia six weeks at a time to visit Jrue after he was drafted by the 76ers.
Rides are scheduled hours before pickup, not on-demand.
You'll also be able to use your phone for things like smart shopping lists, wayfinding and navigation, augmented reality and one-hour club pickup.
"Within a few hours of pickup, your items are sorted through at our warehouse," said Adam Dexter, one of Omni's cofounders, on the phone yesterday.
