Speaking of Weiser, here's the coolest non-baseball PC in my collection: The middle of this unfolds, beginning with the picture of the "New Union Station," into a 12-panel accordion of notable places in Weiser, including a 3-panel panorama of the town in which you might be able to spot part of the ballfield if you knew where to look. And what's the date of the postmark? June 17, 1907, a month before Johnson stepped into that station and off to his great adventure. The station was brand new in 1907, and had been completely restored shortly before my visit to Weiser in 1995. It was a real trip for me to stand on the platform of that station, looking east as Walter would have done, wondering what was in store for him. He had never been further east than Kansas, and now at 19 years old he's going to the nation's capital to play in the major leagues. The other side is postmarked July something, perhaps on its way to its destination of Washington, Penn., on the same train as Walter.
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