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   Phil Kane to hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com   
   Re: 1949 subway improvements seen as boo   
   22 Apr 18 11:19:32   
   
   From: Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop   
      
   On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:31:00 -0700 (PDT), hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
      
   >The linkup of the Sixth Avenue IND subway to the Culver El   
   >was seen as a boon to Coney Island.   
   >   
   >Detailed 1949 Billboard article at   
   >https://books.google.com/books?id=XQ4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT63&dq=%22i   
   dependent%20subway%22&pg=PT63#v=onepage&q=%22independent%20subway%22&f=false   
      
   Interesting to note that his edition also has a article about the   
   fight between RCA and CBS over the then-proposed color TV standard.   
   RCA ultimately won, but not until the infamous "secret cocktail party"   
   that it threw for the FCC commissioners that no one wanted to talk   
   about (but that was a couple of years later).   
      
   Phil Kane   
   Beaverton, OR   
      
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