[PRCo] Re: GE movie

Schneider Fred fwschneider at comcast.net
Tue Dec 22 11:05:15 EST 2009


Cheap fuel .... past tense.

On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Dennis Fred Cramer wrote:

> 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
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> ----- 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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