Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chose to go on the B & M's Steam Safari to Portland, Maine, and the people with whom we went had too foresaken rest, church, comics, and TV. Instead we all got very sooty, and very tired, and very aesthetically fulfilled. For that one day of rest, you see, we were a brotherhood of a curious breed. It was a railroad enthusiasts' picnic...
...right here in Boston during the depression when people deeply reconsidered established values. Automobiles had become a bore because as modern contraptions they were devoid of all nostalgia. Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc., the group which sponsored Sunday's trip, organized in 1933, and quickly established chapters in Hartford, New York, Portland, and Taunton, Mass. Pretty soon there were a million members all over the country--buying magazines (Sample want ad: "Pictures needed of cabooses seen from the side."), swapping photographs (Advertised Mr. G. A. Porter of Savannah, Ga.: "8 X 10 neg. of A-AWP supplement to emp. tt. governing train...
...Portland Transportation Company also made a profitable arrangement with the enthusiasts on Sunday. Buses lined the front of Union Station when the Safari arrived, and conducted visitors to "points of interest in historic Portland." While some of the tour was geared to appeal to the rail fan, much of the fifty-cent ride included such standard attractions as Lincoln Oaks, where, the driver noted, a lady's handbag was once snitched by a playful swan and carried to an island inaccessible to anyone except the police. Other vital points of interest included the City Hall, the First Baptist Church ("Jesus...
...most princely private caravans of art ever to take to the road was camped last week in Portland, Ore., first stop on an 18-month tour of major U.S. museums. Carried in three moving vans, traveling by secret routes and picking up police escorts en route, the show's 101 paintings added up to $5,600,000 worth of art masterworks, ranging in period from late Renaissance to Braque and Matisse, in size from a 20-ft. Monet Nymphéas to an 11-in Madonna and Child by Dutch Master Lucas van Leyden. Owner of this treasure trove...
...offenders, costing the telephone company untold revenue every year. A fruit company in California may call its distributor in Chicago, and ask for "Mr. Brown." Translated, the words mean that it has a carload of seedless grapefruit at $2 a case. The answer, "Sorry, Mr. Brown is in Portland," means, "Fine, send a car load for Wednesday delivery...