[PRCo] Re: Off to see the Wizzard

[Herb Brannon]

I will look for that book. There are two stores in Tower City (Terminal Tower) which always have many Cleveland history books and also Wings Hobby Shop carries about everything on Cleveland history.
Did you figure out the question at the end of my original email?
 
Herb Brannon



----- Original Message ----
From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 8:47:49 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Off to see the Wizzard


A lot of this nation is Hispanic today, Herb and I have no  
objection.   The difference between then and now is who the current  
immigrants are or where they came from or to be more blunt, who it is  
we feel we must hate in this decade.    And I for one don't believe  
in hate.   I like diversity.   We are the nation that we are because  
we have people who came from everywhere ... Polish, Italian, German,  
English, Scotish, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Iraqi,  
Arabic ... oh yes and Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian,  
Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim ... and White, Black, Asian, Native  
American.   The only shame is that we need laws to protect people  
instead of doing it out of care and love for others.

By the way, I just found and purchased a nice book today in the  
Baltimore Streetcar Museum book store: Cleveland's Towering Treasure,  
A Landmark Turns 75, by James A Thoman and Daniel J. Cook, published  
by Cleveland Landmarks Press, Inc.,  13610 Shsker Blvd., Suite 503,  
Cleveland, Ohio 44120-1592, ISBN 0-936760-230-6, price $18.50.   
Copyright date is 2005 so it apparently has been around for at least  
a year.   It is the story of the Cleveland Terminal Tower and  
associated buildings on Public Square.    Very few pictures of  
trains ... a Nickel Plate passenger train with Alco PAs, a NYC  
Niagara on a clearance test run, the usual picture of a CUT electric  
motor, and a poor head-on picture of the streamlined NYC Pacific on  
the Mercury.   And there are a few pictures of Cleveland trolleys.    
But a lot of pictures of the terminal under construction and through  
the years and several of the Van Swerigen brothers.   If you are out  
to buy everything ... like I do ... go ahead and buy it.   Seems  
pretty well done.   Pefect binding.

I should have said, Herb, that the rapid transit equipment in San  
Juan is absolutely spotless ... I watched car cleaners coming through  
after every trip.   But then, the people who ride the line are the  
upper crust of the that area and the west end of the line serves and  
area which is probably to San Juan as Shaker Heights would have been  
to Cleveland in the old days.

I want to go back ... not to spend more time on transit.   It's my  
hobby and you all know that but only one of many interests.   I've  
done that now and you can only spend so much time photographing an 8  
mile (my guess) heavy rail line.     But I would like to spend a full  
week just looking at San Juan, Ponce, and driving around the island.

On Jan 27, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> WARNING WARNING The word Cleveland is used in this email.
>
> The link to Caribbean Natl Park was very good. Thanks for that. One  
> of my buddies at work, originally from Puerto Rico, always wants me  
> to go there. He is also into rail transit and says I would  
> appreciate the new rail transit system. Maybe now I will take him  
> up on the offer.
>
> As far as the speaking Spanish goes.....I'm glad I took two years  
> of it in school, kept up on it, and lived in Florida and Texas.  
> Here I use Spanish frequently. Just today in fact on the 79-Fulton.  
> The near westside of (WARNING bad word ahead!!!!) Cleveland is  
> Hispanic. This includes advertising signs in Spanish on stores,  
> billboards, and on RTA buses inside and out. It seems to be the  
> 'second language' of the U.S. now.
>
> ?Cuanto cuesta un boleto de ida y vuelta a Puerto Rico?
>
> Herb Brannon
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:36:47 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Off to see the Wizzard
>
>
> Enjoyed Puerto Rico ... want to go back!  The city is clearly a mix  
> of well-to-do and those of lesser means.
>
> I found the territory rather curious.   Of course many Americans like
> to consider them not part of us in spite of the fact that Teddy
> Roosevelt took Puerto Rico from Spain in the Spanish American War in
> 1898.   It's a rather curious place with Spanish as the primary
> language but with many corporate names in English ... with Waste
> Management trucks with admonitions warning you that the back
> frequently in English, with familiar stores ... Ponderosa, Wal*Mart,
> Walgreens, Holiday Inn, Hilton, and thousands more and English words
> peppering the language like muffler.   .   It's just
> the part of us or U.S. that speaks Spanish.
>
> They have some of the same problems we have.   Just like the people
> up here don't want to speak Spanish, they have people whose pride
> causes them not to want to learn English.   There is stubbornness
> everywhere!
>
> .   We rented a car and drove east along
> the beaches.   Fantastic azure water with nothing built along them
> for miles.   Then we drove up into the Caribbean National Forest ...
>