[PRCo] Re: Parental Modernization and Smithfield/Wood 2-way Operation

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I've been experiencing a kind of opposite problem.  In cleaning out the
attic (in order that I will have more room to store my own stuff), I came
across 69 years of income tax returns and 67 years of cancelled checks.
Junk, you say, and the vast majority of it is.  But it also shows prices and
expenditure patterns through the years.  In addition, most receipts (for
anything) since the mid-50s were there, including all those card stock
gasoline charge tickets with the holes punched in them.  Why save them?
Because the gasoline tax was deductible!  The most telling stuff was the
service orders on automobiles (as well as the original invoices).  I like
50s cars, but let's not confuse them with quality products...the repair
orders are there to substantiate that claim in several instances!  A '57
Cadillac was a particularly trashy assemblage of parts, though it would go
like hell when instructed to do so (it didn't even have power windows or
seats), but you couldn't keep mufflers (there were 4) or brakes on it very
long.

The shredder I recently purchased got a good workout, though some of the
stuff got saved.

Ed

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Subject: [PRCo] Parental Modernization and Smithfield/Wood 2-way
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In a message dated 5/21/01 4:03:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
fschnei at supernet.com writes:


> Dad had a 1930 street map of Pittsburgh (which he later destroyed and I
> saw priced second hand at several hundred clams) that showed
>

Isn't is odd that our parents and grandparents thought that in order to
'modernize' one had to destroy all things that were over five years old! I
had the same problem with a 1939 Cleveland Railway map. I just replaced it
several months ago for nearly $50. Of course the first copy, destroyed by my
grandmother during a spring cleaning binge, was given to me.

Does anyone know during what years Smithfield and Wood had two-way trolley
operation. The question came up in a recent discussion here in Cleveland.

HrB