PRCo. trivia

[Fred W. Schneider III]

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.

What was wrong with the whole picture?  They had a horse car and replaced it with
a bus because the 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.

Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:

> DF Cramer wrote:
>
> >     How true.  As a docent trainer at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, I
> > have been telling our operators for three years to be aware that our typical
> > visitor has probably never been on a streetcar.  To them a horsecar carries
> > horses, a cable car is what the guy drives who fixes your television and a
> > streetcar is something that is modified from an automobile.
>
> I have wondered for most of my life why the interurban era has been ignored by
> general historians, film makers, transportation presentations.
>
> Has anyone else on this list ever gone to the theater and watched a relatively
> accurate portrayal of a certain locale during the 1900-1930 era and wonder why
> the characters are using a steam train or some form of rubber tired
> transportation, knowing the area was served by a heavily patronized interurban
> network at that time in real life? Ken J.
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