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  1. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    I had to share this gorgeous photo that I swiped off a Streetcar group on Facebook. The caption explained that it appeared to be NYC in 1898.
  2. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    I was at the museum last night working Haunted Isle, and a former president was there, someone who is also deeply involved in all the shop work, acquisitions, etc. I asked him about your friend's cars, and he knew exactly what I asked about but told me that no, we don't have any of those cars...
  3. Farace

    Share your own art here :)

    I sometimes sculpt stone, though I'm not very prolific. Here's are a couple.
  4. Farace

    The Era -- Day By Day

    This whole thread has me itching to re-read E.L. Doctorow's World's Fair, which I read so long ago that I've completely forgotten the plot. I'm sure it's still on a bookshelf around here, somewhere. If books were liquid, I'd have drowned years ago.
  5. Farace

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Guitar picks were once made from tortoise shell, which has been banned now for many years, and surviving tortoise picks are highly prized. Something I didn't know until recently is that it's even illegal to repurpose pre-ban tortoise shell into new uses, so that even if a tea tray made from a...
  7. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Sorry for the late reply; I was in NYC all day at a convention. That's not ringing a bell. Are these models? They were setting up new displays in the visitor center over the summer, including an electric model layout, but I haven't seen it finished yet. I'll ask around.
  8. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    You have to give me more of a hint. I'm in only my third year of operating, and I'm still meeting people. A number of the cars that were damaged in hurricanes Sandy and Irene have been repaired, with more on the way. Unfortunately those storms caused damage that set back any restoration work...
  9. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Yes, indeed, Toronto car 2898. It also hosts the Easter Bunny in the spring. And I get to hang with Santa. We're buds. I think it's funny that kids tell me I look like the conductor from Polar Express. Then I have to apologize for not being skilled enough to punch words with my ticket punch.
  10. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Here along the Connecticut shore, for the tracks that went out of New Haven some of them were routed along main streets or other roads in the smaller towns, but some instead went through marshes along routes that were never to become motor vehicle roads, and in some places those paths still...
  11. Farace

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I have to say, being new here it took me a bit to realize what's going on in this thread, but now I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Interestingly, completely unbidden by my Conscious, my Subconscious has begun reading the daily digests sort of in the manner of a radio program à la Paul Harvey. I can't...
  13. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    The interior of Brooklyn car 4573. The controller for 4573. The lever on the right is the reverser key. The car is immobile without it in place. The big handle on the left is the motor controller. Besides the Off position, there are two sets of five "points." There are large cast iron...
  14. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Having posted Brooklyn car 4573 above, it occurred to me that it might be worth recounting how the Brooklyn Dodgers got their name, for anyone that didn't know (as I didn't until I started volunteering at the Trolley Museum). It seems that residents of the borough became adept at crossing...
  15. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Should I post photos of some of the cars in the museum's collection? I don't always get a chance to take pictures while I'm operating, but I'll make an effort if anyone wants to see them. Here are a couple more. Car 4573 is a Brooklyn car and is a convertible. In cold weather, glass panels...
  16. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    @Fading Fast, I love that building. We have an old Ponds factory nearby with a wonderful Art Deco façade (and only the façade, of course, as it was a manufacturing plant) that is supposed to be repurposed in the near future into some sort of indoor sports/recreational facility. I hope they keep...
  17. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Just came home from an evening operating car 850. It was built in 1922 and operated in New Orleans until 1964, at which time it was brought up here to the Shore Line Trolley Museum, where I am a volunteer. Tonight was one of our Haunted Isle events. The vintage trolleys again operating in New...
  19. Farace

    Any Other Fiestaware junkies on here?

    My partner, before I met her, had some of the original Fiestaware, and one day she set a pitcher and a salt and pepper set on a sheet of photographic paper in her darkroom and left it overnight. Next day she developed it. Where the pitcher had been sitting there was a faint ring. But where the...
  20. Farace

    New Member to the Hat Forum

    I should take some photos. I have a number of Parkers, Eversharps, Shaeffers, Esterbrooks, and others. I love celluloid; it has a feel and inner light that is not duplicated by modern resins. I think my favorite visually is a '30s Parker Vacumatic in emerald green. The stripes, shine, and...
  21. Farace

    Show us your suits

    My partner once bought from an estate shop in Rhode Island a pinstripe navy wool suit that had belonged to Humphrey Bogart. Reportedly, Bogart had a summer place in eastern Rhode Island or nearby Massachusetts. Tonight I decided to try it on. It would fit really well if I were to lose some...
  22. Farace

    New Member to the Hat Forum

    Can't say I'm much more adept. I absolutely hate trying to do anything on my phone. I only put up with my iPad because I can operate it from my recliner.
  23. Farace

    New Member to the Hat Forum

    Maybe the difference is that I'm viewing the site through a browser? I have no knowledge of Tapatalk. Drives me nuts when something not only looks, but operates differently depending on the platform and/or app. Facebook is the worst for this. In FB, what I can see of my own photos is different...

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