[Genealib] "Moving Day" and Chicago

[P.M. McLaughlin]

Here's a little bit more on Chicago and moving

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/852.html

I had a friend in Chicago who moved almost every year
for 10 years - he got very good at reserving moving
vans early.

Pam McLaughlin
Fremont Public Library
Mundelein, IL
--- Donna Jo Atwood <datwood at olatheks.org> wrote:

> March 1st used to be moving day in my part of rural
> Iowa-it was when all the
> hired hands who were moving went to their new
> positions (I'm guessing so
> they would be ready for spring planting).
> 
>  
> 
> Donna Jo Atwood
> 
> Reference Librarian 
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
> [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On
> Behalf Of Bolen, Virginia
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 5:45 PM
> To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
> Subject: [Genealib] "Moving Day"
> 
>  
> 
> Some friends who maintain the Washington Co. NY
> genweb site told me that
> April 1st was "moving day" in Greenwich, NY.  This
> was the day everyone in
> town who wanted to move did so.  Has anyone heard of
> this in other towns or
> counties.  Just curious.  Might it have had anything
> to do with publishing
> directories?  
> 
> Virginia Bolen
> 
> Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library
> 
> 475 Moe Road
> 
> Clifton Park, New York 12065
> 
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