[Accrs] Pullman Porter History - Rising From The Rails

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

I took this image of the board on the last day.
On Jul 7, 2016 2:27 PM, "Alameda County Central Railroad Society" <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Theodore Tully  tullyme2 at gmail.com
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> Did anyone add the fair attendance for us? I eyeballed it as 50000+.
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> The total fair attendance was 445000 which means that we held our own.
> Also, most of us don't count  the back door entries and they seemed to
> increase this year, because of the blacksmith shop.
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> One of the fair directors walked through on Monday and stopped to talk to
> Dick Stark and me. He mentioned counting the back door entries.
> Fortunately, everything was running very well at the time.
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> Ted
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> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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>> Message From: Tony Long  tony.long at outlook.com
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>> Andy's email reminded me about the great book that Larry Tye wrote about
>> the Porter history.
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>> If you have not seen or know about this,  watch this:
>> http://www.c-span.org/video/?183046-1/book-discussion-rising-rails
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>> The will give you a quick background the history.
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>> You will love the story about the kid's baseball.
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>> Tony
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