“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 80

Time to relax and have a refreshing smoke.

“Tobacco Valley”, a promotional film from “The Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association, Inc.” about tobacco growing in the Connecticut River Valley.

Why am I posting this? I think it’d be hard to find something more politically incorrect on YouTube. If you think otherwise, surprise me.

Bonus video: “Call Us Penn Central”, a promotional film for the Penn Central Transportation Company.

Why this one? The film was made in 1968: Penn Central filed for bankruptcy on June 21, 1970.

The Penn Central bankruptcy was a cataclysmic event, both to the railroad industry and the nation’s business community. The PC and its problems have been the subject of more words than almost anything else in the railroad industry, everything from diatribes on the passenger business to analyses of the reason for its collapse. Of the failed merger, Saunders commented “Because of the many years it took to consummate the merger, the morale of both railroads was badly disrupted and they were faced with unmanageable problems which were insurmountable. In addition to overcoming obstacles, the principal problem was too much governmental regulation and a passenger deficit which amounted to more than $100 million a year.”

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