Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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around Christmas time. Somebody died, because In them days
you didn't lay you out in the funeral parlor, laid you out
at home.
Harvey: OK, let me just ask you a few questions for the last
tape and maybe we can wrap It up - just a few things that
hit me funny when I listened it.
Why do you think so many people from Bampden worked for
the Transit Company?
Lewis: Well, one thing I'd put it this way: They had a
terminal out here in Roland Park. They also, up on Falls
Road there right by CockeysvilLe. Of course they only used
that for storage most in my day and they had the 25 line.
And then they had Oak Street, big base there. And
~ ' say d one time most everybody out here worked for the rail-
road, Mt. Vernon yards down there was the biggest railroad
yards Pennsy had around there before moved to
Atld there was no telephones and you had to live close to it
so the caller could go out. And the telephones got popular,
the railroaders spread out.
Harvey: Am I. riqht to think that, though, that a lot of
people in this area did work for the transit company?
Lewis: You had a lot of people work here for the transit
company, but at one time it was a toss-up whether the young
men worked - the railroad because
the railroad didn't have ladies. The railroads or the mills
. . . you made bigger money with the railroads and m0s.t: of
them went to the railroads. ~ike my grandfather and them