[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Glasgow - The Last Tram

[Dennis Fred Cramer]

The Last Tram is quite dramatic.  There were such hopes for a better world 
back then and just like always, a lack of foresight.  The women got dumped 
by the company because they were assumed to not have the strength to drive a 
bus.  The film does show a great celebration of the last day of work for 
many of them.

I have a 45 RPM record of Telestar.  We were going to space.  Were we all 
really that naive?  As a youngster, I was more interested in what was gone 
than what was currently popular.  Steam, trolleys, Model T's & A's, big band 
music, and "The Twentieth Century" with Walter Cronkite filled my 
imagination.

The Cramer's were forced to move from suburban McKeesport to the middle of 
nowhere as there was never going to be a need for steam coal again.  They 
closed the mine in Versailles with millions of tons of coal still available. 
The B&O no longer stopped at the mine to coal the engine.  Here in America 
it was not the busses that killed the trolleys, it was the autos.



Dennis F. Cramer
      Trombone