[78-L] Train Blockage Re: Whither NOLA

[Banjo Bud]

"You Don't Know What Lonesome Is Until You've Punched A Cow."

--------------------------------------------------
From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:17 AM
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Train Blockage Re: Whither NOLA

> Well, that's very apt. All them there cowboy songs are about trucks and
> trains and faithless women.
> I once wanted to be a cowboy but not after I listened to them there 
> records.
> Sounds like big trouble to me so I'll stay here in New Jersey where I'm 
> near
> to Vince Giardano's Night Hawks.
>
> Al  Simmons
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> To: <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Train Blockage Re: Whither NOLA
>
>
>>>>> We found out on
>>>>> the web while in transit that the Jimmie Rodgers museum was closed Sun
>>>>> &
>>>>> Mon and if the brochure had said that we would have gone on the way
>>>>> down
>>>>> Wed like db did. We went to take pictures anyway and wonder how he
>>>>> found
>>>>> the place because we hit all kinds of blocked roads with detours and a
>>>>> train blocking yet another road!
>>
>> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
>>>>  Blue Yodel No. 14: aka "Biel Street Blues"
>>
>> From: wmfisher at mtsu.edu
>>> Lets think about this....TRUTH exposing historians (Beil & Beil, both of
>>> whom we love dearly) are blocked from a shrine to a LEGEND (Rodgers) by 
>>> a
>>> protective Train (take your pick here).  OK..so I'm not an eloquent
>>> writer....
>>> Is there not something romantically poetic goin' on here??   ;-) 
>>> Martin
>>
>> The train that was blocking the road was only three cars from the end,
>> but was parked with no signs of moving the 100 feet that would have
>> cleared the crossing.  After a few minutes of humming "Waiting For A
>> Train" and trying to think of new words about waiting for a train to
>> MOVE, we went to to the next interstate exit and let the GPS guide us.
>> That is where we met two construction roadblocks and detours. We did
>> eventually muddle our way thru Meridian to the par where the little
>> shack is.  There is a marble monument, a train engine and caboose, a
>> historical marker, and a flag pole that was dedicated by Ralph Peer.  We
>> took a bunch of photos.  I saw that the admission was $8, which is why I
>> had asked my question about if it would have been worth it -- it would
>> have been $16 for the two of us.
>>
>> What label was that box set on?  ProperBox??
>>
>> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 78-L mailing list
>> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
>> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>