Re: [Cz-L] transportation in Romania

Lisa,
 I rented a car in Rumania 1981 .
  I had to inflate my tyres.
      In the mega- city of Bucharest only 4 filling stations had air
compressors..
  They pumped up the tyres by hand pump.
    They provided a pump with the rented car.
    They found my question as funny.
      You also repaired punctures alone.
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Cohn" <aforestclearing_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Chernovitz genealogy list" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:04 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] transportation in Romania

Hi. I've seen a variety of topics in this list, so I thought I'd ask.

My father's family is from Romania.
His mother's family was from Novoselitsa, his father's family was from
Botosani.
His parents married in Chernovitz. They lived in Bucharest as well for a
time.
One his uncles and family lived in Reni.

What I'm asking about, as a not-quite youngster who barely remembers life
before internet....
is about transportation and communication.
I'd like to hear stories from the assembled who were there:

How did you communicate with loved ones in other cities...? Only
How did you get from town to town? I'm presuming a lot of this was by
train...what was involved in getting to the train, what was the trip
like.....etc....?

Growing up in America, I learned about the invention of the car, and
telephone, etc.
But most of what I learned was from the United States point of view. I'm
wondering what it was like over in Romania.

Thank you all,
Lisa

LITMAN-COHN
Litman-Reni, Novoselitsa, Chernovitz
Cohn - Botosani, Chernovitz, Bucharest...
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