[PRCo] Re: Donnell stop

Ken & Tracie kjosephson at sprintmail.com
Sun Oct 5 23:45:37 EDT 2003



Bob Rathke wrote:

>
> No one ever accused Roberta Hill of writing detailed captions on her photos.

Some were, some weren't. The former had car numbers, date, time, temperature(!),
motorman's name, location, build date & direction of the car. The latter were
simply date, time and car number, or just the date. But Ed returned some of
Roberta's negatives to me with corrections he made to her notes on Route 85. He
also corrected some of her mislabeling of stops and locations along the Drake
line. I did see references to "Donnell" on some Library line photos of hers.
Perhaps a forgotten nickname by locals for a bar or place of business near a
stop? If just Roberta had made the notation, I'd write it off as an error. But
maybe John Bromley can drop Joe a line and see if he recalls why he listed it as
"Donnell Stop in thi early 1960s shot."

K.



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