[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago

[Herb Brannon]

At the Chevrolet plant on, what else, Chevrolet Blvd., in Cleveland there
are signs posted at the entrances to each employee parking lot that indicate
that only Chevrolet vehicles be parked in the first three rows from the
street. The signs go on to day that "foreign" vehicles be parked in the rear
of the lots.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:

> From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:51:44 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago
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> Worked his entire life working in the industry and wouldn't use transit,
> eh?
> Reminds me of the following.
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> During 1983, while in St. Louis, I couldn't help but notice that an
> employee
> lot at one of the Chrysler plants was full of Ford, GM, Japanese and German
> automobiles.
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> K.
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> Mr.Josephson;
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> With your interest in autos you can probably detail the history
> of the automakers disallowing 'foreign' autos in the employee
> parking lots;  they had to be from the mfgr didn't they.  That has
> obviously changed but I don't know when.
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> I know of transit employees who don't ride transit;  don't know
> the specific reasons beyond  'choice.'
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> Phil
> Without  a   'coast'   but  not  a   'cause.'
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> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:19 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago
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> > And there is one retired railfan who has been preaching to me for
> > months about how he would never consider riding transit.   He was
> > explaining how he used to live in Upper Darby and worked at 30th
> > Street and simply would not even consider riding the elevated ... he
> > gave me every reason in the book why but I think it boiled down to
> > the "wrong kind of people" rode the el.   He also has been telling me
> > how none of his tax money should ever be spent on mass transit
> > because it useless.   Yet the man spent his entire life working in
> > that industry!
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Herb Brannon
On America's North Coast