[PRCo] Re: Bethlehem, PA Trolley Photos

[Herb Brannon]

I have contacted Derrick this morning concerning the Dementia.Org website
being unavailable. Haven't heard from him yet.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 17:00, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Browser cannot find website.   What's up Derrick.
>
> On Jun 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
> > This may as well be included, too. Taken around 1925 at Broad & New Sts,
> > Bethlehem by an unknown photographer.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 19:35, Richard Allman <allmanr at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> the other great Charlie Houser story relates to the famous Lehigh Valley
> >> NRHS fan trip in April 1951, w/ 3 car train of 700 cars. northbound at
> some
> >> speed coming into Center Square, crossing Skippack Pike, no way was
> Charlie
> >> able to stop that thing very fast, so he just leaned on the horn and
> sailed
> >> across the road-safely-phewww!!!!
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> >> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 7:15 PM
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Bethlehem, PA Trolley Photos
> >>
> >>
> >>> Walter Zackon, who lived in southern New Jersey, used to tell a great
> >>> story that indirectly involved Charlie Houser.
> >>>
> >>> It was the last day of Easton Limited service and Charlie was the
> >>> motorman.   They were stopped for the traffic light at Broad and New in
> >>> Bethlehem and Charlie left him off the car and agreed to pick him up
> >>> farther down the block.   Charlie said he was running down the block,
> and
> >>> looking back over his shoulder, and running, and looking over his and
> >>> running and looking back.
> >>>
> >>> Months later he was looking at movies at a Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS
> >>> meeting and discovered another fan had been there.   Walter said he saw
> >>> himself on the screen running down Broad Street in Bethlehem, looking
> >> over
> >>> his shoulder with the Keystone Cops chasing him.   I think it might
> have
> >>> been Howard Sell who had neglected to see with the movie camera
> capturing
> >>> him.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Richard Allman wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> ok, Herb: first one-not sure-it's an odd angle;
> >>>> second one @ Bethlehem Steel plant, 2 work cars awaiting entry to the
> >>>> scrap
> >>>> track in June, 1953
> >>>> third shot w/ 1000 series car also at the Bethlehem Steel on the
> >>>> specially
> >>>> installed scrap track on Daly Avenue
> >>>> info re: others will require some research!
> >>>> Charlie Houser was an LVT motorman. He died in 1984. He was a very
> nice
> >>>> person, as were his wife and children.
> >>>> RICH
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
> >>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >>>> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 1:53 PM
> >>>> Subject: [PRCo] Bethlehem, PA Trolley Photos
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I found these at the Bethlehem PA public library. Mr. C.W. Hauser is
> >>>>> credited as the photographer. I had never seen any of these photos.
> >>>>> Maybe
> >>>>> some on The List will be interested.
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Herb Brannon
> >>>>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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> > --
> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park