the effect East Coast

did you mean "effete" East Coast?  Sometimes I wonder if those two terms aren't 
redundant.
sk
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  Yeah, well, that's how it is on the effect East Coast. Further inland, 
though, the Wichita Lineman is doubtless still up a pole... 


   
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  Linemen still climbed poles with those boots as late as 1987 when I saw them 
do it in western Chester County.  It all depends on the area.  The older 
linemen relished a chance to go native and climb.  Many of the older guys miss 
the rough and tumble of the old days when they truly were nature boys and macho 
men.  
  sk
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    In a message dated 1/26/2007 1:42:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL 
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      Also I thought that putting up signs on wooden utility poles posed a 
danger to the crews that had to climb the poles.  Is this and urban legend or 
simply no longer relevant?

    I haven't seen a utility person actually climb up a pole since the days 
when I chased behind the horse-drawn wagons delivering ice to the houses on my 
street in Dorchester (arguably, America's first Streetcar suburb, by the way) 
where families didn't have electric or gas refrigerators.**  Have you ever seen 
one? The utility companies send their crews out in trucks with cherry-picker 
hoists. 

    Al Krigman
    Left of Ivan Grozny ®

    ** The reason for chasing the wagons was to steal little chunks of ice when 
the iceman was inside the customer's dropping off the block of ice.

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