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I laughed. I'm thinking of the Heritage Museum in Calgary, Alta.
A wonderful living history portrayal of life on the prairies around the
turn of the century. I was standing there with Ed Lybarger one day
watching the WCTU ladies strut through town with their anti-drink banner
and I couldn't resist telling them to go home and make dinner for their
hard working husbands.
<p>What was wrong with the whole picture? They had a horse car and
replaced it with a bus because the <b>animal rights activists claimed work
was harmful to horses!!!!! What ever the Texas Board of School Box
Censors does like, the animal rights people and politicians prohibit.
Let's all go out there and rewrite history.</b>
<p>Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>DF Cramer wrote:
<p>> How true. As a docent trainer at the
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, I
<br>> have been telling our operators for three years to be aware that
our typical
<br>> visitor has probably never been on a streetcar. To them a horsecar
carries
<br>> horses, a cable car is what the guy drives who fixes your television
and a
<br>> streetcar is something that is modified from an automobile.
<p>I have wondered for most of my life why the interurban era has been
ignored by
<br>general historians, film makers, transportation presentations.
<p>Has anyone else on this list ever gone to the theater and watched a
relatively
<br>accurate portrayal of a certain locale during the 1900-1930 era and
wonder why
<br>the characters are using a steam train or some form of rubber tired
<br>transportation, knowing the area was served by a heavily patronized
interurban
<br>network at that time in real life? Ken J.</blockquote>
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