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[Schneider Fred]

Frank Pfuhler's postcards this time included a great old Jacksonville  
card.   I'm sending it for Mark and Jerry ... those two guys who  
deserted the north for the warmer climate.
The rest of you can wish you were down there with the palm trees.

For those of you from the north who are unfamiliar with Florida  
history, northern Florida has a much older history than places like  
Miami.   Even though it is eastern United States, Florida was not one  
of the original 13 colonies because Spain owned it at the time of the  
Revolution.  The following sentence is copied from Wikipedia and  
gives an idea of the earlier history of Jacksonville:  The settlement  
that became Jacksonville was founded in 1791 as Cowford because of  
its location at a narrow point in the river where cattle once  
crossed. In 1822, a year after the United States acquired Florida  
from Spain, the city was renamed for the first military governor of  
the Florida Territory, General Andrew Jackson, who would later be  
elected President of the United States.

On the other hand, when you get down to Miami Beach, I remember an  
article we published in Headlights magazine talking about the new  
trolley line built in the 1920s when there was nothing there but sand  
and rattlesnakes and an attempt to develop that spit of land.   Coral  
Gables Rapid Transit, on the other side of Miami, was also a brand  
new trolley line in the 1920s built to serve a brand new community.

By the way.   The streetcar company in Jacksonville was one of those  
Stone and Webster properties ... remember Stone and Webster Utilities  
of Boston ... the engineering and management company that employed  
Charles Oliver Birney who created a safety car?

Now how the heck can I bring this back to Pittsburgh.   Oh yes.   
Stone and Webster designed the Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant.    
Close enough Derrick?    :-))))