Description: Richmond’s Pennsylvania Depot Site: Gateway To American History - History - Wayne County - Richmond, Indiana 188 pgs. FASCINATING PHOTOS AND READING FOR HISTORY BUFFS AND/OR ANYONE FROM WAYNE COUNTY OR RICHMOND, INDIANA. "On Monday July 7, 1902, Richmond’s Pennsylvania depot opened for business.Although local news editorials heralded high expectations as concerns its benefits to the community, these expectations would ultimately be greatly exceeded by the distinction this new structure would bring to Wayne County in its utility throughout the decades to come.The station quickly became a lively 24-hour menagerie of hustle and bustle. Cooks and waiters and porters and bellboys took charge of meals, of horse-drawn carriages and buggies, of vehicles transporting passengers to and from the station. Waiters banged on pans to let travel-weary passengers know where the restaurant was, and that a meal awaited. Train and railway duties were attended to by engineers, firemen, brakemen, signalmen, flagmen and track gangs every day of the year. Buses and coaches stood in readiness outside station doors whenever a train arrived. Later electric streetcars and motorized taxis lined the streets, replacing horse-drawn vehicles. At its peak the Pennsylvania Depot had a 24-hour restaurant, all-night news racks, a shoeshine stand and barbershop… and as many as 160 passenger and freight trains passing through town every 24-hours.The Pennsylvania depot would bear witness to major 20th century events.The ongoing arrival of presidents and celebrities, and the coming and goings of people of all stripe allowed the edifice to bear witness to events that shaped not only Wayne County but the nation.International celebrities tromped through, including frontier showman Buffalo Bill Cody, ‘little Miss sure shot’ Annie Oakley, educator-orator Booker T. Washington, bar smasher Carrie A. Nation, humorist Will Rogers, sight-impaired humanitarian Helen Keller, poets James Whitcomb Riley and Robert Frost, jazz immortals Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Waller, Mamie Smith, Fletcher Henderson and Jelly Roll Morton, evangelist Billy Sunday, airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, political orator William Jennings Bryan, silent film stars Tom Mix, Ken Maynard and Lillian Gish, famed dancer Bill “Mr. Bojangles” Robinson, vaudeville and film comedians Jack Benny, the Marx Brothers and George Burns and Gracie Allen, baseball greats Babe Ruth and Joe DiMagio, heavyweight boxing champions Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis and Gene Tunney, singers Sammy Davis Jr. and Peggy Lee, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt… and members of the real Trapp Family Singers of "Sound of Music" fame." (text from article by Steve Martin.)
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Author: Steve Martin
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Topic: Historical
Subject: History
