DCML Digest Issue 13

[Don Rosa]

> From: Nat Chrenshaw <natchrenshaw at yahoo.se>
> Subject: Cable cars
> Have you checked this website:

Well, I didn't expect these messages to be sent through the ML where they
will get in the way -- you can send me such help privately.
But I'll publicly make a few details clearer:
Please don't suggest websites for me to search. You can't imagine the hours
I and others have already spent doing just that. As I said, my time for
research is up -- what I'm trying to "bribe" someone to do, if they wish, is
find a photo and send me that single perfect photo.
Now, what izzit exactly that I need?
I need a close up view of the fronts of either or both of the Sugar Loaf
cablecar stations, the side where the passengers enter, at the bottom and at
the top of the run. Note -- there is a intermediate station on a rock
partway up the route where passengers change cars -- I can't use that. The
date of the photo must be prior to 1960 as I know that the stations were
rebuilt by then... I have distant, unusable pics from 1954 and 1960, and I
can see the buildings in each shot are totally different. The old building
style is square, like the old cars; the modern building has lotsa 45 degree
angles, matching the modern cars. I don't think the pic can be too old, not
like 1910, as I believe the stations were also rebuilt maybe around 1915-20.
Now... please don't search for this unless you have LOTS of spare time.
First, I don't think you'll find anything. Second, the views have to be so
ideal to be of use to me that after all your work I might say that it won't
do. Obviously, it must be a photo that's just right for my use, not just any
photo.
But if anyone enjoys a potentially futile challenge, have at it.
But consider: I've had a person actually IN Rio searching for such pics for
months, and he can't get anywhere. Sure, I could find it if I had the time
(and the fat $ advance!) that a novelist has for research, but I can only
spend a few extra weeks of my own time on this stuff, time I take to please
myself but which is unpaid labor, hacking away at my page-rate, and then I
gotta go with what I got, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.