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Nostalgia & History > Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76Date: 03/21/17 08:45 Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: gcm A couple rough shots taken through a door window at Marion,Ohio.
Conrail was just a few weeks away and of course no hiring. I wonder how long it had been since there were job vacancies on the EL. I'll bet the farewell to the EL dinner was a somber affair. I'd like to have been there just to hear all the Erie stories told that evening. Gary Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/17 08:46 by gcm.   Date: 03/21/17 10:00 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: refarkas This brings my feelings of the loss of the EL to a new level!
Bob Date: 03/21/17 10:30 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: Lackawanna484 $7 a person for a nice dinner.
That was a long time ago. When inflation creeps into prices, a nickel here and a dime there doesn't seem to matter. But, over 40+ years, it will compound. Date: 03/21/17 11:04 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: Englewood I would have liked to hear the story behind the hole in the wall and what
looks like a "disappeared" pay phone (for those old enough to know what a pay phone was). Date: 03/21/17 13:34 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: hogantunnel Englewood Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I would have liked to hear the story behind the > hole in the wall and what > looks like a "disappeared" pay phone (for those > old enough to know what > a pay phone was). Yes, another Unsolved Mystery to solve. $7/person does reflect the economy of that time period. I'm sure it was a bitter sweet occasion. Date: 03/21/17 13:47 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: davebb71 3/20/1976 was a saturday and today you would pay around $30 for dinner and dance. is that an old cigarette machine??? dave, out.
Date: 03/21/17 13:54 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: gcm davebb71 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 3/20/1976 was a saturday and today you would pay > around $30 for dinner and dance. is that an old > cigarette machine??? dave, out. Looks like a cigarette machine but I don't know about the hole in the wall. Gary Date: 03/21/17 15:33 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: pal77 gcm Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > davebb71 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > 3/20/1976 was a saturday and today you would > pay > > around $30 for dinner and dance. is that an > old > > cigarette machine??? dave, out. > > Looks like a cigarette machine but I don't know > about the hole in the wall. > Gary Simple no smokes=fist through wall Date: 03/21/17 15:48 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: ACL3012 It isn't a cigarette machine. It is a candy machine. Note the first photo. See the smaller box on the machine? This is where chewing gum was place.
I guess that I am the only dino. on here. Yes, I remember cigarette machines, candy machines, the bubble gum machine that had a glass top and the same as peanuts, too. Hell, I can remember when you get bottles of Coca-Cola for a nickel!!!!!! They were the smaller bottle of Coke. Rex Press Date: 03/21/17 17:51 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: Josiah Picture #2 looks like pay phone may have been mounted on the wall at one time, coin operated phones looking at the silhouettes and holes..
Date: 03/21/17 18:19 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: upkpfan Rex Press,
Yes, I remember the 5 cent Coke and drank many of them. We also played a game to who would buy by looking at the name of the town stamped in the bottom of the glass. Whoever had the town closest to where we were at at the time was the winner or could also be who had the town farther away was the winner. I agree with the outline of a pay phone on the wall. upkpfan Date: 03/21/17 22:21 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: tq-07fan Looks like a smaller white rotary dial pay phone in the right of the second picture.
Moraine Yard and Dayton were still eligible places for Erie Lackawanna guys to exercise their seniority. A former E-L guy came all the way from Marion for a couple weeks to work on the one local out of Moraine that I would get a cabride on sometimes (like most every week). He wasn't as friendly as the normal PRR and NYC guys. Jim Date: 03/22/17 07:14 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: Lackawanna484 Has anyone here actually used one of those gasoline pumps with the globe on top? Not a museum version, but one in everyday use?
(You hand pumped gasoline into the globe on top until it reached the line. Then you released the flap and gasoline flowed out another hose into your vehicle. They appear in some of the O Winston Link 1950s pictures of rural Virginia.) Date: 03/25/17 19:27 Re: Sad signs in EL office at Marion -- March 76 Author: upkpfan > Has anyone here actually used one of those gasoline pumps with the globe on top? Not a museum version, but one in everyday use?<
Yes I have. Worked for a farmer in the summer from 56-58 and he had one that I used to pump gasoline into pu and car with. This was in KS. upkpfan |