I know just how you feel! When I was very young, I lived in Hamden very near the train depot. At that time, there were still passenger trains that stopped there to pick up mail, people and drop people off. I think it was the B & O railroad. My sister and I always would go and meet the Thursday "people train" as we called it. We loved sitting there watching the people get on and off. After doing this for so long, we became friends with the conductor and the cook on the train. It was the same ones every week. This was back in the days that they still had the wonderful Pullman cars that were so beautiful. We thought it had to be such a thrill to travel on such a beautiful train! The conductor would let us on the train to "take a peek" inside. We loved it! We even got to the point of exchanging Christmas gifts with the conductor and cook each year. My family moved out to our "farm" when I was in the sixth grade and the "people trains" stopped soon after that. I grew up and left Vinton County and several years after that, a relative of mine that lived in Hamden sent me a brick from the Hamden depot because it was being torn down. It was so sad thinking of the depot of my childhood years being gone and the first time I went home to Vinton county, I had to go there to see it. All that was left was the brick sidewalk that had been in front of the depot. I have moved many, many times since then and that silly brick always goes with me!!! It holds so many memories for me!! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [OHVINTON-L] Re: OHVINTON-D Digest V02 #191 > I have printed out your note, I love hearing about the old places my > relatives lived in. I recently got a chance to go see Radcliff... Well sort > of see it. Nothing to see!! > Working with this genealogy you kind of get to know a place and have > something in mind about it. I am usually disapointed lol ... You pass a > road sign and thats IT... > I also spent some time pokeing thru the Old Berlin Hotel on a visit last > fall......(Jackson Co. Ohio) Low and behold this fall it is GONE... I > felt so bad. I did get some great pictures and when I heard it was being > torn down I sent my cousin who lives locally out to get me a Berlin > Hotel brick! So I have Berlin Hotel wall paper and a brick... Wonder if > anyone else cared enough to get a birck?? > Wellston did the same thing this year with the Old Wellston Ice House. > Makes me sad.. Maybe I am a bit crazy ?? Ya think?? lol > Susie >

Raynita, The Berlin Hotel you mention, where was it? I grew up in Jackson and don't remember a hotel other than the Cambrian and the Gibson. Thanks, Pam "Raynita G. Fenter" <[email protected]> wrote:I know just how you feel! When I was very young, I lived in Hamden very near the train depot. At that time, there were still passenger trains that stopped there to pick up mail, people and drop people off. I think it was the B & O railroad. My sister and I always would go and meet the Thursday "people train" as we called it. We loved sitting there watching the people get on and off. After doing this for so long, we became friends with the conductor and the cook on the train. It was the same ones every week. This was back in the days that they still had the wonderful Pullman cars that were so beautiful. We thought it had to be such a thrill to travel on such a beautiful train! The conductor would let us on the train to "take a peek" inside. We loved it! We even got to the point of exchanging Christmas gifts with the conductor and cook each year. My family moved out to our "farm" when I was in the sixth grade and the "people trains" stopped soon after that. I grew up and left Vinton County and several years after that, a relative of mine that lived in Hamden sent me a brick from the Hamden depot because it was being torn down. It was so sad thinking of the depot of my childhood years being gone and the first time I went home to Vinton county, I had to go there to see it. All that was left was the brick sidewalk that had been in front of the depot. I have moved many, many times since then and that silly brick always goes with me!!! It holds so many memories for me!! ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [OHVINTON-L] Re: OHVINTON-D Digest V02 #191 > I have printed out your note, I love hearing about the old places my > relatives lived in. I recently got a chance to go see Radcliff... Well sort > of see it. Nothing to see!! > Working with this genealogy you kind of get to know a place and have > something in mind about it. I am usually disapointed lol ... You pass a > road sign and thats IT... > I also spent some time pokeing thru the Old Berlin Hotel on a visit last > fall......(Jackson Co. Ohio) Low and behold this fall it is GONE... I > felt so bad. I did get some great pictures and when I heard it was being > torn down I sent my cousin who lives locally out to get me a Berlin > Hotel brick! So I have Berlin Hotel wall paper and a brick... Wonder if > anyone else cared enough to get a birck?? > Wellston did the same thing this year with the Old Wellston Ice House. > Makes me sad.. Maybe I am a bit crazy ?? Ya think?? lol > Susie > --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now