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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (378647)4/16/2008 11:29:47 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1574518
 
I return to my home town every now and then, usually for funerals or weddng anniversaries and am shocked at how small my old neighborhood really is.....it never felt that way to me when I was growing up. There are historic things in the region but from my searches usually find them to be old buildings from the early 1900's or old mines(collieries) or old railroad stations and churches of course. It was always said that my home town had a church and a bar on every block. There was something genuinely historical that happened in Mt. Carmel, Pa, my home town. Thomas Edison wired the town for the first electric street lights because of the dense checker board layout of the town. A ready supply of coal allowed him to build a small generating plant at the end of the main street. For the same reason, the town was one of the very first if not the first to have cable TV since it was located in a valley between two hills upon which a tower was built and cable was easily strung around the town like Edison's lights. Until that time we had no TV because antenna's were useless. Cable came in around 1950-51. Side story:...if you wanted to get hooked up to cable, you also had to buy your TV set from the cable guy in addition to the monthly cable fee. The guy got rich.
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