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Subject: [NJ-MEMORIES] The Sound of Chains
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:17:25 EST

In a message dated 01/26/2000 11:26:43 PM Mountain Standard Time,
writes:

<< This snowstorm brought back memories of childhood in Jersey City of
the noise that the chains on the wheels of buses and cars made!
>>

I can relate to that. My grandmother lived in an apartment on Mt. Prospect
Avenue in Newark, and when I was a kid, that street was still cobblestoned. I
can still hear the chains on the cars and trucks and buses hitting those
cobblestones as they went past when we were visiting. Another sound I recall
from those days which involved chains were the old trucks that had chain
drives instead of driveshafts connecting the engine with the rear wheels. You
could spot a chain-drive truck by the sound it made -- a repetitive
"yanna-yanna-yanna-yanna" as the chain rounded the gears on the front and
back ends.

Doris in Colorado ()
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." --
Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

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