[PRCo] GE movie

Dennis Fred Cramer trombone at windstream.net
Tue Dec 22 07:48:27 EST 2009


Obviously most cities and towns did not get the idea.  We love our cars and 
cheap fuel.
          Dennis F. Cramer
http://home.windstream.net/dfc1


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Cc: "Bromley John" <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:00 AM
Subject: [PRCo]


> Here is a great movie produced by General Electric about 1950 to
> promote its products.   Of course we were not listening.    We
> continued to move from the cities to suburbs and the cities promoted
> in the films became hollow shells.   But there are some nice pictures
> here of PCCs in Los Angles, Detroit, Shaker Heights, Philadelphia and
> even Pacific Electric and some nice movie clips of trolley buses in
> Denver and Milwaukee and San Francisco.   Enjoy.
>
> And thanks to Peter Folger for finding it in the first place.
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/GoingPlaces
>
> 





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