[Accrs] Pullman Porter History - Rising From The Rails

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Gary,

That is not our attendance, but the total Fair attendace.   We got about 
50,000 of that number or about 11-12 %

Dean



On 7/7/2016 3:31 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
> Message From: Gary Barbano  gary_barbano at yahoo.com
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> is that number correct at nearly half a million 445,000 ??????  Or 
> rather 44,500 ???
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> Gary B
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> On Thursday, July 7, 2016 2:27 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad 
> Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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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 <mailto: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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