<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 1/2/01 9:49:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, <BR>kjosephson@sprintmail.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">How comfortable was DC's air
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<BR>I did have the pleasure to ride DC Transit #1512 (The Silver Sightseer) in <BR>the summer of 1961. I went to DC with a high school buddy for the weekend. We <BR>were standing on 'C' St., near that small tunnel the DCT cars used on the <BR>Capitol grounds, waiting for a car to go to Penna Ave. A car came in sight <BR>and we boarded only to be greeted by a uniformed 'stewardess'. What a <BR>surprise, we were beside ourselves. The car was much better than the other <BR>DCT cars, with such things as better seats, better flooring and postcard <BR>views of Washington landmarks inserted into the standee windows. The <BR>"postcards" were transparencies and thus the light from outside illuminated <BR>them. The main difference was the air conditioning. It was a good system and <BR>kept the car cool and dry in spite of the summer heat and humidity of DC.
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<BR>I guess that car was lost to vandals at the DC trolley museum some years ago.
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