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

[Schneider Fred]

There is a very similar last day tape for London.   I'll have to let  
you see it sometime Dennis.

On Feb 3, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Dennis Fred Cramer wrote:

> 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
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