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(erielack) Time travel "The Past"
To all-
The best part of the commute to and from New York City was through the
Jersey City Erie Terminal. My father used to take me to work via the Erie
RR from Rutherford to Jersey City when I was small. This was done in the
summer during and after WWII when school was out and Dad had time to drag
me to work. We arrived at the JC terminal and then took the ferry to
downtown NYC. Dad had coffee and I had milk in a small glass bottle and a
donut. We used to stand up front on the second deck of the ferry and catch
the spray in our faces. On the way home, Dad stopped for a manhattan in the
terminal bar/restaurant and I had the best, largest and most delicious
vanilla malted for the trip home. Both in and out of the city was done by
Pacifics with 4 or 5 Stillwells in tow. Dad worked on the 40th floor of
120 Wall Street and from his office windows you could see both rivers and
all the harbor doings including luxury liners in war paint, freighters,
tankers, a variety of war ships and many small vessels. In those days, a
very busy harbor.
- -Joe Jordan
Train Nut Central
http://www.20thcenturyhobbies.com/trainnut/
At 12:25 PM 3/5/06 -0500, Dad wrote:
>
>OK, Jeff,
>Commuters on the DL&W & EL later had several choices to get to the Big
>Apple.
>1. the ferries (with great donuts & coffie while u watched the skyline. They
>took u to Barclay St & that was a short walk if u worked downtown in the
>financial district.
>2. The H&M (Hudson tubes). These took u to most of the high points & all the
>way uptown to 33rd St. Many of the stops could be at an interchange with
>subways for further uptown. There was also a convenient terminal on the H&M
>downtown on what became the site of the twin towers (before our islamic
>friends blew them up in an effort to convince us of the correctness of their
>worldview).
>Walt Smith
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <eljefe3126_@_netscape.net>
>To: <LKRanieri_@_comcast.net>; <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
>Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:46 PM
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Three strikes and I'm out
>
>
>> Judging from what appears to be a row of commuters who are not dining and
>> who are just reading their morning papers, I'd guess this "place" wasn't
>> so much a local dining establishment as it was the actual ferry across the
>> Hudson.
>>
>> If that's so, and if in addition it was an Erie or DL&W passenger ferry,
>> that would definitely make it list content, and hardly a test of patience.
>>
>> Would someone enlighten this west end guy? How did commuters on the DL&W
>> lines get to jobs in NYC? I'm sure this has been discussed here before,
>> but I tend to focus more on the Erie side of things on the east end.
>>
>> Jeff Larson
>> ELHS #2683
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lynne <LKRanieri_@_comcast.net>
>> To: Erie Lackawanna List <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
>> Sent: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:08:37 -0500
>> Subject: (erielack) Three strikes and I'm out
>>
>>
>> http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-03-04-06
>>
>> I don't want to tax the patience of this list yet again, but I just
>> scanned this
>> image from the "Cliff Dwellers" book and in light of the dining
>> discussions, I
>> thought this eating area might be of interest, too. Is this place even
>> around
>> any more?
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