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

[John F Bromley]

I offered Yanosey a 1960s Pittsburgh book from both my slide and those of
Joe Jessel, many of which you've all seen on eBay.  I was told rather
tersely there was no market for this, in other words ( four of them  and if
you can't figure it out eMail me privately) - "f o a d".  I have not pursued
the matter because of this rudeness.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Holland" <PghPCC at pacbell.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Morning Sun Books__WAS__:[New PRCo. picture book by
Rohrbeck]


> Good Morning!
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>
> Please note subject line change.
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>
> > Fred Schneider wrote:
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> > 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:
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> >> And how many photos in the new Leroy King's book
> >> are PCCs?
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