[78-L] fwd: 1906 film of a cable car ride

[Cary Ginell]

Actually, by 1906 they were already known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. Before that, they went by the Trolley Dodgers (not the Streetcar Dodgers), Ward's Wonders, Foutz's Fillies and Hanlon's Superbas.

Incidentally, yesterday was the birthday of my boyhood hero, Tommy Davis, who won two consecutive batting titles for the Dodgers in 1962 & 1963. He's 72, for crying out loud. That's how to make someone feel old; when their boyhood sports hero is a senior citizen...

Cary Ginell (a Dodger fan since 1963)

> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:15:35 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] fwd: 1906 film of a cable car ride
> 
> On 3/22/2011 8:24 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
> > At 07:08 PM 3/22/2011, you wrote:
> >
> >>>   look at all the traffic
> >>> violations! Jaywalkers, vehicles cutting in and out, near
> >>> collisions, no signaling.
> > Things were so bad that within the next two years, there were public
> > service announcements shown before the main feature, in which the
> > title cards warned people not to walk out in front of the street cars
> > and automobile.
> 
> Supposedly the Brooklyn Dodgers were the Brooklyn Streetcar Dodgers.  
> Nowadays in Brooklyn we don't have to dodge streetcars but rogue 
> bicyclists riding the wrong way with no lights, reflectors, or common sense.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> >   Kino Films put out a 2-volume DVD of early cinema,
> > including The Great Train Robbery, and it has several examples of
> > these efforts to train the public to look before crossing the
> > increasingly busy streets.
> 
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