Re: Alpine Tunnel, lantern at apex.
| August 02, 2020 07:35PM |
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hank Wrote:
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> ISTR reading that it was still hanging at the
> apex of the tunnel in the late 1930's, when
> you could still walk the length of the tunnel,
> but {it} was gone a decade later. Never heard
> even a ghost of a rumor of Otto Perry having
> it though.
Jimmy Blouch Wrote:
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> More likely someone of the Kindig, Poor, Thode,
> Haley, etc group. They made a trip(s) to east
> portal {in} 1938-1939.
Dang Foamers!! Should-a left it there for the rest of us to enjoy . . .
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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> ISTR reading that it was still hanging at the
> apex of the tunnel in the late 1930's, when
> you could still walk the length of the tunnel,
> but {it} was gone a decade later. Never heard
> even a ghost of a rumor of Otto Perry having
> it though.
Jimmy Blouch Wrote:
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> More likely someone of the Kindig, Poor, Thode,
> Haley, etc group. They made a trip(s) to east
> portal {in} 1938-1939.
Dang Foamers!! Should-a left it there for the rest of us to enjoy . . .
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter *
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
* Only TWITS Twitter!
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