i remember my dad telling me about how the miners were paid and they had to use it at the "company store"...... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delilah" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports > try Tennessee Coal and Iron - still exists > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "deb & jim" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:16 PM > Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports > > > | Looking at his WWI Draft registration, Oather Tyler worked for TC&I in > 1917 > | or 1918; i think i've "googled" this query but haven't been able to dig > | far....... > | any ideas? > | ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Carl & Martha Thomas" <[email protected]> > | To: <[email protected]> > | Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:55 PM > | Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports > | > | > | > At 05:40 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: > | >>yes or they were called trolleys - Carl, you the expert on this. There > is > | >>a > | >>photo of "Passengers in the late 1940's get off and on an East Lake > | >>Trolley > | >>from a raised platform in the middle of Twentitieth Street" > | >> > | >>This book was one of a series published a publishing co in Miami, > FL., > on > | >>several of the larger cities, Dr McMillan was from Auburn, he was a > pro > at > | >>AU and also a patient of the doctor I worked for. Since it is listed > in > | >>the > | >>Library of Congress, you may can see some of the photos by just > putting > in > | >>Malcolm Cook McMillan - the ISBN is 0-912458-40-2. > | >>I know that my children's grandfather was part of the HABS project and > | >>took > | >>many photographs over Alabama and the LOC said I could print them out > from > | >>my computerm this was a WPA project. > | > > | > My father worked for the old BRL&P {Birmingham Railway Light & Power > | > Co} from the end of WW I until his death in 1945. Initially he was a > | > trolley conductor {collected the money and tickets} but later became > | > a "dispatcher" responsible for keeping the trolleys and buses running > | > on schedule. > | > > | > The BRL&P was the predecessor of the Birmingham Electric Company, the > | > Birmingham Transit Company, and whatever the current public > | > transportation system is named. > | > > | > Before the electric trolleys came into use, there was a mule drawn > | > rail car that ran from the down town business section, southward > | > along 20th street, then up the steep hillside to Five Points > | > South. That was the end of the line and the turn around location. > | > > | > I have a very old photo of that mule drawn rail car. Will be happy > | > to share that and other old Birmingham area photos if someone can > | > tell me how to post photos ..... I don't think that it's appropriate > | > to "attach" them to regular notes such as this one ? > | > > | > Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee > | > > | > > | > ------------------------------- > | > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > | > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > | > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > | > > | > | > | ------------------------------- > | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >