[PRCo] Re: The need for trolley cars....

[Boris Cefer]

Well, I am only 28, but I have a very clear idea what the vacuum tube radio
or a crystal receiver is. I remember at least that vacuum tube radio that we
still had 20 years back. It was a modern one.

I see I have a problem - I don't have an automobile on my wish list :-(

Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
Subject: [PRCo] The need for trolley cars....


> There were perhaps a few died in the wool railfans out there who took
> offense with me a few years ago when I made the remark, summing up
> the automobile versus trolley war, that went "he who doesn't have a
> car doesn't have a woman."
> Every Monday evening the Lancaster (Pennsylvania) New Era publishes
> about 24 column inches of events in the past ... nothing over 100
> years ago probably because no one is old enough to remember.    There
> was a great piece this Monday that sums up dating from 75 years ago
> and whether or not you really wanted to throw two tokens into the
> trolley fare box to take your squeeze out on Friday night.   It read
> as follows:
>
> "NECKING PARTIES:  A local constable promised to make arrests if
> "necking" and "petting" parties continued in automobiles parking
> without lights along public highways.   According to the constable,
> deserted roads leading into Gable's Park were crowed at night with
> parked cars.  The threat followed complaints lodged by a New Danville
> Pike resident against a half-dozen motorists who had parked their
> cars on his property.   Oct. 3, 1930. "
>
> Two columns over to the right was a piece announcing the opening of
> the Terre Hill trolley line in October 1905.   It was built as part
> of that last great boom that included routes out of the city to
> Christiana, Quarryville and Elizabethtown.   They were gone seventeen
> months after the necking party incident.
>
> When my mother and dad met, she told me he had two important things
> on his wish list.   One was a vacuum tube radio to replace the
> crystal receiver (some of you might just be old enough to understand
> what I'm talk about).  His other wish was for a new Model A Ford.
> He built one, bought the other.    I think I know why.
> ☺
>