Oh my that does bring back old memorys < Remember back in the days before electricity was feed to all home via poles and wires ? People lighted the house with One feeble dim light bulb run off 12 volt batteries IE : Storage Batteries !! , think auto battery , same thing , Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:04 PM Subject: PABlair Storage Battery ??? >I have been looking over some of my old records, and found copies of >Criminal > Court records. In many of them, there are people charged with theft of > storage batteries. Evidently they were rented for 25 cents a day, and not > returned. > What in the world are storage batteries? Does anyone know? I have looked > it > up, and nothing is listed. These records are early 1950's, and I will not > be > posting them anywhere, it is possible some of the people are still living, > and I > don't really see any genealogy interest in them. On the other hand, I am > just > plain nosey, and enjoyed reading them. I also enjoyed tremendously > discovering my brother was arrested in 1952 for driving without a license, > and reading > my parents had to post bond for him. I immediately sent copies to my > brother, > and his children. I never heard a word of this, never, and though I would > have > been 4 at the time, you would think at sometime someone would have > mentioned > it. > Most of these cases deal with driving offenses, a few husbands deserting > their wives, and quite a few of these storage battery thefts. If any of > you know > what a storage battery is, and what they were used for, I would love to > hear > about it. > Thank you, > > > Annie Whiteman > PABlair List administrator > Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz > Blair County Coordinators > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair > <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the > all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML> > > > > ----------------------------------- > No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out > rule. > ------------------------------- > 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