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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat Feb 24 13:11:47 2018, in response to Re: El in da Bronx, 1940, posted by r17-6599 on Fri Feb 23 17:30:42 2018. R-17 : I will venture one more story of the IMAC before the OT police catch up with me. As you know it was standard procedure for students to assemble at marked pews in the church for the 8 AM mass. After the mass was over you would go to your classrooms. Since you went to mass a least six days a week you became very familiar with the operation even at a young age. A normal weekday mass should take from 25 to 30 minutes. I recall one day it may have been in 1957 that the priest concluded the mass in abut 15 minutes. I don't know if he was in a hurry to catch the next train to Gun Hill Road but he flew through that missal. All the students filed out of the church and went to class early. No sooner had the church emptied that a section of the roof collapsed. The kids would certainly have been injured if they were still there. Someone in the home office was looking out for us little guys. Now to get back on topic. There was an entrance to the subway on the north side of 149th Street just west of Melrose Avenue. What made in interesting was that there were two not one kiosks at this location. The westernmost kiosk was closed and removed about 1956/7?. If you went down to the platform level the stairs themselves were visible or many years. Fast forward to March 2017 and the subway calendar for that month. There is a picture of a kiosk at 145th Street and Lenox Avenue. Bill explains that there were two different kinds of kiosk. The ones with a domed roof were entrance only. The ones with a peaked roof were for exiting passengers. You learn something new everyday. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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