Rail Recollections Part 4: 'Interurban cars looked beautiful and big' (8:45)
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This is the fourth of four videos created around cassette audio tapes my grandfather, Bernard Louis DuPlessis, Sr. (1904-1992), sent to me from 1985 to about 1990. This one is built around comments he made about interurban trolleys and public histrionics. He was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and moved to Newark's Ironbound section in 1907. His family moved in 1912 to the then-new Weequahic Park section in the south part of the city. He married Margaret Browne (also from Newark) in 1930, and they left Newark for North Carolina in 1933. I have a couple other videos already on my YouTube site (Jim DuPlessis, or, JimDuPlessis).

The series consists of:
"Rail Recollections Part 1: A Teenager's Working Life in the Teens" (8:17)
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"Rail Recollections Part 2: Grocery Shopping to Horse Droppings" (7:51)
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Rail Recollections Part 3: 'They got to work a darn sight easier' (7:39)
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Rail Recollections Part 4: 'Interurban cars looked beautiful and big' (8:45)
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Other family history videos include:

"A Crossing and a Fire: The Browne family 1907-1908" -- My grandmother recounts her immigration story from Ireland to Newark. (8:29) [ Ссылка ]

"'It was a Contract': The Working Life of Linotype Operator James C. DuPlessis" -- My grandfather talks about his father, James C. DuPlessis, and his work as a Linotype operator for newspapers in Oswego, Syracuse and Newark from the 1880s to the 1930s. (12:23) [ Ссылка ]

"A Song in Memory" -- A French Canadian solves a family mystery that goes back over 100 years involving our family's last organic connection to the French language. (9:43) [ Ссылка ]

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