According to the most recent audience reach and customer demographic analysis by the Pecanne Log market research division, the average reader of this blog is a 57-year-old white male who makes 46.2 online purchases a month, is a model train hobbyist, reads rail timetables for pleasure, and eats Jimmy Dean products four meals a week.
These findings are likely due to the fact that Pecanne Log’s only reader is Thomas Wheatley, and that’s just when we pop up in his Google Alerts for himself. We also might be like the 80th result when Thomas Wheatley googles “Sam Massell’s Celebrity Transit Policy Alaskan Cruise 2012.”
Anyway, all this goes to say that the average reader of this blog might also find interest in Burnaway’s annual art party fundraiser, happening this Saturday night:
- The theme is “trains”
- Tickets can be purchased online
- Thomas Wheatley will be performing
- There will be food trucks (of course) but it’s cool if you bring your own Jimmy Deans
To make up for there being no Atlanta cookie cakes for sale this year, here’s some TRAIN FASHION.
Southern Railway, Southern Streamline Train; March 1941
Southern Railway, The Tennessean; May 1941
Southern Railway, The Tennessean (period clothes); May 1941
Harvey Smith Enterprises (Trade Show Exhibits); May 1951
Eastern Air Lines, Model train; February 1950
Southeastern Maytag Company, 706 Lee Street; February 1956
Southern Streamline Train; March 1941
Southern Streamline Train; March 1941
Tucker Wayne Company, Kids on Train; March 1948
Tucker Wayne Company, Kids on Train; March 1948
Shriners Leaving on train at Terminal Station (Challenger, Sweet pea the skunk in a baby carriage); May 1947
Rex Allen, North Carolina and St. Louis Railway; May 1950
Southern Railway; 1941
Lambdin Kay's wedding sendoff, 1927
Miss Georgia (Betty Shepard) and others in train station, 1941
Miss Georgia (Betty Shepard) aboard train
Marcus Bartlett with Fred Waring's band, 1930s
Southern Railway, Southern Streamline Train; March 1941
All photos from the GSU photographs special collections.
Previously: Members only
That 1st photo shows “The Best Friend of Charleston” locomotive behind the lady on the left. You can see it in RL in the lobby of the Norfolk Southern building at 15th & Peachtree. It’s quite colorful!
I confess: I skim the blog for the period fashions and usually buy Kroger brand microwave sausage patties instead of Jimmy Deans. It’s gonna hurt my feelings if you see me at Burnaway and don’t say hello.
Wheatley is looking pretty good for 57. I honestly thought he was a couple of years younger than that.
He can get away with telling people he’s 53 because of his boyish dimples.
See, you have more readers than just Thomas Wheatley!