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New York City Used To Deliver Mail Through Pneumatic Tubes
Manage episode 332790834 series 2922787
Today in 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens famously told his colleagues that the Internet was not a dumptruck, it was a series of tubes, figuratively speaking. But here’s a story about some literal tubes that New York City once used to deliver mail. Plus: today in 2021, a woman who had asked the New York Yankees to be a batgirl 60 years earlier (and been rejected) finally got to live out her dream.
THE PNEUMATIC TUBE MAIL SYSTEM IN NEW YORK CITY (Untapped New York)
In 1961, the Yankees told her she couldn’t be a batgirl. Sixty years later, it happened. (Washington Post)
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Manage episode 332790834 series 2922787
Today in 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens famously told his colleagues that the Internet was not a dumptruck, it was a series of tubes, figuratively speaking. But here’s a story about some literal tubes that New York City once used to deliver mail. Plus: today in 2021, a woman who had asked the New York Yankees to be a batgirl 60 years earlier (and been rejected) finally got to live out her dream.
THE PNEUMATIC TUBE MAIL SYSTEM IN NEW YORK CITY (Untapped New York)
In 1961, the Yankees told her she couldn’t be a batgirl. Sixty years later, it happened. (Washington Post)
Help get our show through the tubes of the internet as a backer on Patreon!
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/support1339 епізодів
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