Word: brakemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four days of strike and profane telephone calls to Lapham's listed home number, the trolleymen went back to work. This week the brakemen on the cable cars were once again clanging "shave-and-a-haircut" up & down Nob Hill...
...Walkie-talkies for messages between freight locomotives, the caboose and brakemen patrolling the car tops...
Further along you say: "To the end of his life Billy Hull would go off to Florida in the winter . . . riding the caboose with the brakemen...
...three-story brick business block which Celina still calls "the skyscraper." But to the end of his life he would go off to Florida for the winter with all his clothes in a cardboard valise, a battered tin cup tied to the handle, riding the caboose with the brakemen...