[PRCo] A Party at PTM

[Fred Schneider]

For those of you who were not there ....   Accolades again to Lynne  
Cafferty and her sister-in-law for pulling off a great fund raiser  
for the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum last night ... a dinner and polka  
party at the Washington County Fair Grounds.   Lynne is the museum's  
events' coordinator.   Her sister-in-law just happens to run a  
catering business which provided a great   (geeerate in the words of  
Tony the Tiger) Polish feast.    At the start of the evening Scott  
Becker announced that we started off with $2,000 in revenues from  
people who paid and then were unable to show ... I understand $500  
came from one person.   The going rate for the dinner was $40 a  
head.   How many were there?  Lynne told me an even 100.   The  most  
startling thing ... and this isn't unusual at PTM events ... was the  
number of wives, girl friends and other females ... 43 out of the 100.

We were entertained by a local polka band which plays every Saturday  
on a Pittsburgh AM radio station ... the music floods the car shop  
any Saturday when Bernie is working.   At the party when master  
mechanic Bernie Orient wasn't dancing with his wife, he was right in  
their with the band playing his button box.

I had to get home by 11:00 this morningto get the church collection  
so I didn't stick around until the bitter end last night ... I went  
back to Ed's and crashed.   I don't know how they made out with the  
silent auction, the Chinese auction, and the verbal auction.   I  
imagine quite well.

Justin and Jeff were running PST 14 throughout the evening for those  
who wished to ride ... my take was that most were enjoying the  
music.  I saw the car go by once with maybe 15 souls on it.

Congratulations to all who worked.

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As a sidebar ... all the upper window sash for 4398 have glass in  
them and have been installed.  Jack Sunderland and Tony DiSensi were  
working on the roof yesterday.

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And buried at the bottom to see who bothers to read this far ... I  
did ask Tony if he remembered if the low-speed Jones cars had spur  
gears and the rebuilt high speed cars had helical gears.   He can't  
remember.    I don't know any one else old enough to ask who isn't  
six feet under by now.    I guess that puts the lid on that discussion.