Our friend Ray Piesciuk has been scanning CA&E bulkhead advertising cards (the ones hung in the bulkhead windows between the cars' smoking and main compartments) from the Julie Johnson collection. A few duplicates have been passed along to us so that we can either use them in the cars or easily get them copied. The batch he's working on currently seem to mostly be from 1939-1940. These will all eventually end up on the fascinating www.irm-cta.org archive site Ray and Julie manage.
Randy adds: That's an astounding list of names -- some of the greatest artists of all time. I wish I could have been there.
I remember hearing many of those voices on the radio when I was very young in the 40's and 50's. A much different time for sure.
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