From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
      
   >>>>. . .   
      
   >>>An interesting aspect of some relocations.   
   >>>Braves remained Braves wherever they went once they finished   
   >>>eating their beans,and Giants stayed giant and Dodgers dodged   
   >>>coast to coast...but Senators left office when they left Washington,   
   >>>Pilots took up brewing on leaving Seattle,and so forth.   
      
   >>The "Dodgers" name doesn't have mean with the relocation from Brooklyn.   
      
   >I suppose the streetcars in L.A. were gone by the time the   
   >baseball team showed up,but weren't they gone from Brooklyn   
   >too by then?...   
      
   I looked it up. While there were pre-war abandonments, the post-war   
   abandonments were line-by-line, largely from 1948 till 1956. It appears   
   that the final abandonments contributed to the team making the deal to   
   move to Los Angeles.   
      
   >in any case,going clear across the country is   
   >a dramatic move to avoid being hit by a Brooklyn streetcar.   
      
   Heh   
      
   >And now L.A. has light rail...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)