Carl, i'm at the Library of Congress website, entered the ISBN number and there are bunches of entries; any way to determine which have photos? thank you! ----- 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 >