[Accrs] ACCRS Opening Day

Sun Jun 17 21:02:40 PDT 2018

Keep and identify the hobo camp.

Ted

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Larry Brickell  colorado at onemain.com
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> Love it
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> Larry Brickell
> 925-314-5003 cell
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> On Jun 17, 2018, at 8:56 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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> Message From: Phil Edholm  pedholm at pkeconsulting.com
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> Unreal
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> Perhaps, it would be good to explain that the word “hobo”within our
> modeling and layout is used in the historical context of the 1930s and the
> great depression when unemployed males (they were very few females) rode
> the rails seeking work ,not a reference to today’s homeless.  Hobos, by
> definition, had a specific relationship to the railroad and the country
> during the depression. Using any other term would essentially hide that
> aspect of the depression and equate them to today’s homelessness, which is,
> in the Bay Area, as much a lack of housing as it is a lack of employment or
> income assistance. Hobos were driven to the rails by a lack of work, they
> were not bums nor were they on any form of assistance.  The fact that they
> were virtually all males is a very important point to make about the
> differences between hobos and today’s homeless or unsheltered, today
> children are 25% of the homeless and there are almost as many women as
> men.  At the height of the depression there were over a million hobos, and
> they were 99% male. They were not homeless in that they were seeking work
> by following the rails and living nomadically, and many actually had homes
> and families they left to try to find work.  In that vein Bedouin herders
> who follow the herd are also homeless.  Only if the only definition of home
> is a fixed location. Rather than changing the term, we should use the
> opportunity to inform about history and the differences between the hobos
> of the 30s and the challenges of the unsheltered in 2918.   In the 30s
> their was no social assistance so the only way to make money to eat was to
> leave your family to try to find work. In fact, the hobos were a large part
> of the drive for the New Deal, Social Security, WPA, etc.  The WPA was
> established to create work in response to that unemployment including the
> hobos.
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> Let’s not acquiesce to the absurdity of the PC police when they are wrong
> and just uneducated. Use their ignorance to educate.
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> BTW, I am sure that person that complained totally missed the real
> social-economic commentary of the entire piece.  Look at the juxtaposition
> of the three vignettes in the scene; the hobo camp at the bottom level, the
> Pirates of Emerson in the middle and the climbers high above everyone else.
> The message of the poor (the hobos in the lower level),the middle class
> (volume attendance at the Pirates reprinting the entertainments of the
> masses), and the wealthy pursuing more expensive individual recreational
> pursuits is actually a commentary on the structure of society and how
> wealth is allocated between classes (deliberate). So the hobo camp and
> their plight is actually part of a deeper commentary on society and how
> different classes live and are treated by our socio-economic structure.
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> Finally, if that person comes back, please let them know that if they talk
> to me they need to use the phrase “folicularly challenged” (FC) as I am
> deeply offended if someone uses the “bald” word around me as it is clearly
> only used in society when  intended to be highly offensive to people
> unfortunately impacted by hair loss. If I even hear “thinning on top” I am
> thrown into near suicidal depression. Please be very conscious of offending
> those of us that are FC. There are many more of us than the homeless, and
> we are impacted by a curse that we have no personal responsibility for.
> Society needs to stop treating hair loss as a treatable choice and give the
> FC the respect and consideration we deserve. We are not FC by choice, we
> are the victims of this scourge on humanity.
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> Seriously?
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> Phil Edholm
> PKE Consulting
> Office 925 264 9420
> Cell 408 832 5618
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> On Jun 17, 2018, at 6:19 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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> Message From: Andrew Herrera  czephyr1949 at gmail.com
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> Maybe we can replace the word 'Hobo' with the 'Unsheltered'.
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> Andy H.
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> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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>> Message From: Joel Clark  clark.joel.a at gmail.com
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>> Gentlemen,
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>> We had a good opening day. Thought I would share a few things.
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>> The scavenger hunt cards were an excellent idea. That really got the kids
>> engaged and they loved it. That said we will need more of those printed out
>> and more pencils, as we go through them pretty quick. Lets consider putting
>> some at the back door because some people got to the front and wished we
>> had them at the back.
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>> Some kids submitted them to me fully filled out and asked if there was a
>> prize. I let them have at the donated magazines/tyco box, but ongoing maybe
>> we can get some ribbons from the fair or something like the other exhibits
>> give out.
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>> I took Dick's advice to talk to everyone possible while on the chair. It
>> was good advice, we got some good engagement and contacts. When I told some
>> about our tenuous situation staying in the building they said "oh no I will
>> send a letter to the fair" so that's good PR we need.
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>> Also, one person I talked to was from the county housing department and
>> took offense to the use of the word "hobo" on the scavenger hunt, as it
>> reflects badly on our region's homeless. Perhaps we can just call it
>> "campfire." Now, I'm sure many of you have different opinions on the matter
>> and that's fine, I'm just reporting what was said to me.
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>> Electrically there were a few hiccups but they were repaired. All should
>> be good for coming weeks.
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>> Thanks!
>> -Joel
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