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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I say I remember when it (the eight digit phone number) was implemented, what I really mean is that I remember from before it was implemented. I just don't know when it was. I also remember, within a couple of years, when we got a cord for the handset on the phone that was curly and not...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Not only do I remember that practice (our phone number was Garden 5-4155), I also remember when the practice began. There was a time when you only had to dial 4155--I think! But that was also when people would write "city" on envelopes when the address was within the city. And the parking meters...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Oh, it's pretty obvious in the wintertime.
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    The generation that went to Vietnam may not have been the greatest or wanted to go but they went just the same. Another aspect of the highway building in the 1950s was to shift more freight traffic from trains to trucks, which sometimes did a better job of getting things there faster. One of the...
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Generally speaking, urban and suburban planning--all planning, I guess--revolves around the automobile. Typically, there are still traffic jams all over the place every day, just the same. But to hear some explain it, the problem is that we, the people, never build all the roads that the...
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Is that a Manx horse? I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned surplus trolley cars being converted to diners yet. Perhaps few diners were in fact converted trolley cars and for that matter, the classic diner rarely looked like a streetcar. I also wonder how much influence...
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    The place we stayed in London when we were there was near the subway (the "underground") station South Kensington. Apparently the tube went directly under the building where we stayed because you could feel it (but not hear it at least) periodically. But it was very nice to ride, once we got the...
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    I didn't mean to imply that small populations enjoy public transportation now at all. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Small towns and villages in this country often have no public transportation available at all, not that it matters so much, since cars are so widely owned. It has been a long...
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    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Like I say, some people wouldn't like digging their vegetable out of the ground, either.
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    I figured as much. After people had cars, the street cars would have just been in the way. In some places, however, both then and now, the simply replaced the rail system with electric busses that presumably used the same overhead wires. Some railroad systems used electricity, too, but I still...
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    Things That Never Seem to Change

    I eat meat everyday; red, white, pink and, uh, well, that's about it. But I'm probably still about 95% vegetarian in a sense. But in another sense, I'm not vegetarian at all. I've often wondered if those who do not eat meat because they abhor the idea of killing an animal for food would still...
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    As I've often mentioned, I grew up in a small town of not much more than about 8,000. Today it only has about 6,500. Yet when the town had only around 2,000 or fewer residents, a streetcar line was established. Another one was established in the next closest town, which had about 6,000 or 8,000...
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    1940s New York photos

    Don't be so sure. It's isn't gone; it's just different. The reason so-called ethnic neighborhoods disappear is because they aren't being fed by fresh immigrants, which in the cases being lamented, means from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as along the Mediterranean. The children of all...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I'm from Princeton, West Virginia, which used to be at the end of the turnpike. Now it's an interstate and it keeps on going. There used to be several places to eat "downtown," and also up near the courthouse. Some were proper restaurants and some were just lunch counters. The drug stores (both...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    As in Ferrell's Diner? So, where is this town? I'm dying to know.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I happened to notice one of those Yahoo articles, of the sort they like to publish. "The best in every state" kind of article. Well, the article said the Blue White Diner in Martinsburg was the best breakfast place in West Virginia. That's nice but of limited value to most people in the state...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I was just reading about restaurants in Martinsburg, where my daughter lives. There is a brand new (I think) old fashioned diner in downtown Martinsburg called the Blue White Grill. One person called it a "living Norman Rockwell." Not sure what that means but it's only open for breakfast and...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    It's interesting that the word also means sentimental art or music. Norman Rockwell and Lawrence Welk.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    The sugar on bread thing is something I saw in a movie, not something I've ever seen anyone do. But one of my cousins would eat a mayonnaise sandwich. I do like lots of mayonnaise on sandwiches but even so, that's not enough for me.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Oh, the sugar on bread wasn't a sandwich, just a topping, same as bread and butter. A certain German restaurant that we sometimes patronize (Old Europe in Washington, D.C., next to Pearson's Liquor Store) will put Schmalz (schmaltz) on the table as a spread. It's sort of an acquired taste but...

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