[CBQ] Re: Railroad nicknames

["dr strangelove" <kaiserwillieii0815@yahoo.com>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr."  wrote:
>
> Here in coal country, we had all of the Eastern European names. The Czechs 
> all had names that needed letters and the Poles all had letters in their 
> names that they didn't need! It was always fun on the first day of school to 
> hear a new out of town teacher try to call roll. We were the only Irish 
> family in town so everybody could pronounce our name.
> John
I was still quite small when there were a lot of the first generation folks who 
would pass though Butler's Store there in Sesser. I can't repeat what they 
would call each other. Miners mostly. If you ever watched the movie "The 
Untouchables", that will give you a pretty good idea. John, you are making me 
homesick. Not just you. The mayor of Sesser just sent me a picture 2 hours ago 
of my dad's best friend who worked with him at Number 3. They were sitting 
there in that new cafe in town. 




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