[PRCo] Re: Morning Sun Books__WAS__:[New PRCo. picture book by Rohrbeck]

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


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> Fred Schneider wrote:

> You need to understand the concept.



	From:  Acknowledgements - *PA...In__Color__Col-1:*

"""For those reasons, some 46 years later, when Bob Yanosey
approached me to write this book series, I felt that it would be
all impossible to amass enough interesting, well exposed color
slides of the 1940's and 50's to possibly fill even one book,
other than possibly one on Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.    How
wrong I found I was......."""


> Morning Sun Books finds collections of slides, then
> Mr. Yanosey looks for an "author" to put the book
> together.  Bill Volkmer did the first three books on
> Pennsylvania ... Philadelphia, Central, and West. 
> The slides used in the fourth book, i.e. the one
> Roy King put together, were the leftovers that
> were not used in the first three.  I count
> three PCCs in the Philly section and nine in the
> Pittsburgh section.    He also reticent to use
> anything newer than 40 years old (he told me this)
> so there are no pictures of LRVs in Pittsburgh, N5s
> on Norristown, or Kawasaki cars on SEPTA.  The book
> is not balanced because the publisher had an
> apparent need to use up the remaining pictures
> ... hence it is very heavy on Allentown and has
> only one picture from Reading.  End of review.


	*Balance*  is a relative term.    As far as related to systems
covered, the balance is skewed.    And the  *concept*  seems to
be set in the original of the series  --  1940s and 1950s.

	As far as to apparent attempt to publish only  *1940s and
1950s*  as quoted from the above acknowledgement, then there is a
modicum of success.

	But because of this original intent for  1940s and 1950s  color
photos, PRCo Vol-3 is disappointing Just Because it includes pat
And pat lrvs and a disproportionate number of photos in the 1960s
forward.    I was hoping for more of the unseen rather than the
usual.


>> Boris Cefer wrote:

>> And how many photos in the new Leroy King's book
>> are PCCs?



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James B. Holland

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