[milwaukee-electric] Re: Photos of Devil's Teapot Washout 1917

[Scott Greig]

Pictures all across the board have gone up in price the last fifteen years...$10 for an 8x10 is not so bad anymore.

--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net> wrote:

> From: Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net>
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Photos of Devil's Teapot Washout 1917
> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
> Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 6:46 PM
> That's good news, Larry Allan. 
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> Digital copies at ten bucks each, seems pricey, will they
> allow
> photostats or copying the pix with a camera?   
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> Now, as information for the list:     
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> It is quite an article as I have Milwaukee Journal print of
> it from 1972
> and another account of it from Scale Model Traction &
> Trolleys.             
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> My elderly brain tells me that there have been other
> failures at that
> site, since this one.  I seem to recall a photo of a
> car stranded out
> there as it was behind the washout.  Passengers had to
> walk around the
> site, in both directions.         
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> I've just re-read an account published in Scale Model
> Traction &
> Trolleys Quarterly, of this same failure.  This
> article is far more
> detailed than that which appeared in The Milwaukee Journal
> (wonder what
> the Milwaukee Sentinel and/or the old Wisconsin News,
> reported on this
> matter) as those articles should be of interest,
> also.               
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> For the record, the Wisconsin News, a competitive afternoon
> paper,
> failed in the late 1930's and was merged into the Milwaukee
> Sentinel,
> which then was a morning paper.       
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> Don L.       
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