[PRCo] Re: On the subject of old age

[John Swindler]

"Almost" old age is remembering the motorman on 1711 picking up bundles of Sunday papers at the Post Gazette-Sun Telegraph building on Grant and Blvd. Allies for delivery to stops like Kings School on the Library line.
 
John
 
 
 
 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] On the subject of old age> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:52:17 -0500> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > Old age is> > 1) When you are running 1711 at PTM and you can remember reading > the advertisement in the Pittsburgh Press announcing its delivery. > (Old age is also remember photographing the same car at Mingo Mine on > the Charleroi line in 1953.)> > 2) Old age is being asked to judge an antique car show at the > Baltimore Streetcar Museum and saying OK but I will not be willing to > award a prize to anything younger than myself ... so those guys who > came with a 1941 Chevrolet can go home without the price. > Fortunately there was a chap there with a ancient Sears Roebuck that > had just gone through a wheels up restoration and we all agreed that > it won.> > 3) Old age is making the mistake of asking your dad to watch the old > time movies with you on Howdy Doody and not having enough brains at > that age to understand that it was just making him feel old. They > weren't old to him, just his youth being brought back to the > forefront. (If we were still living, he would be 101. But he did > tell me of driving along the National Pike in Aunt Carrie's 1927 > Chevrolet and being overtaken by a Ohio Electric interurban car on > very uncertain track near Columbus. He also once took the steam > boat Senator Cordill from Marietta to Pittsburgh instead of the > Baltimore and Ohio railroad because he had a day to kill.) > > 
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