Re: (erielack) EL Name

[The Jordans <jjordan_@_blast.net>]

How about "Dreary Erie" and "Mistake by the lake" which were usual 
sayings about the local railroad in my day.

- -Joe Jordan

At 02:22 PM 1/29/02 -0500, Al Reibel wrote:
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>MONTGOMERY| ED wrote:
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>> When I lived out in Ohio in the 70s, many people never adopted the
>> whole "Erie Lackawanna" name.  It was still "Erie" to many.
>> However, around the time of the Bankruptcy the newspapers
>> around Marion started calling it the "Erie Lack -a-Money". 
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>Or my favorite, heard from some ex-EL Meadville employees-
>"Erie Lack-a- wampum"
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