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Originally Posted by PennBF
These notes bring back memories of my traveling by train from NY to North Carolina and the ride then. It was during WWII and I was around 8 years old. My father was an Officer in the Air Force and transferred from NY to a base in Wilmington,NC. We came down by
train, like a "Troop Train". No air conditioning, many many stops in the heat, could not get off and it was packed. Forget food. Now the ride from FL to Va is with breakfast, air conditioning, your car is with you, you can actually get a cabin and some complain? Wow,
have we become spoiled.  |
No question things have changed. I just heard as also an ex New Yorker. As kids NY was the most populated state in the Union. Today by far it is California, Next is Texas, while I've been to Texas a few times, I would never have guessed it was number two, Florida is now number three and New York is number four. Air conditioning is the reason. As kids,
Florida is was hot, humid and loaded with mosquitoes. We coulda bought land dirt cheap.
Soulda, clulda mighta. Hum, remember all the scandals of people selling and that was underwater or nonexistant.
We/I sometimes wonder as people think crime etc etc etc was, is a recent invention.