Atd (37) p. 1041. Erie Line, 'home', Lincolnwood, fascism and elm trees

[Mark Kohut]

P. 1041

Erie Line: Railroad from the East to Chicago. , the first Pullman car appeared on the Erie line in 1872. it went through my town, Jersey City, I learn.
www.susquehannadepot.org/erieeffects.shtml Note this:
The Erie and the DL&W were merged in 1960. 

line 2"remember ...home": how much of AtD is about being away from Home, homeless in a spiritual/psychological sense. Just about everybody, yes? Modernity's legacy. 

line 5"industrial security"...just a new descriptive phrase?, since White City Investigations if, like the Pinkertons, etc. has been involved in protecting business interests since the 19th century? 

line 6 "or just thinking about going out [on strike]" TRP's "1984" respect
and influence... 

line 7 "ops now wearing two-tone brown uniforms"...BROWNSHIRTS?, totalitarian, fascist allusion? 

The Industrial Security Society was not founded until 1955, just fyi.

Lincolnwood:
Of course, the head of a Private Eye Company would retire to Lincolnwood. named after Abe Lincoln:    
During Prohibition, Tessville [original name] became a haven for speakeasies and gambling facilities.

Tessville was long reputed for drinking and gambling until the 1931 election of its longest-serving mayor, Henry A. Proesel, a grandson of George Proesel, one of the original American settlers.[!!] In 1932, Lincoln Avenue, formerly a plank toll road, became a state highway. Proesel then worked with the federal government's Public Works Administration and hired the community's entire unemployed workforce to plant 10,000 elm trees on the village streets. Most important, the community passed a liquor license law (1934) that limited the number of licenses allowable within the city limits and became a model ordinance for other communities. Proesel finally changed Tessville's image when he renamed the village Lincolnwood in 1936.

wikipedia.

It is a rich Chicago suburb, made possible originally because of the railroad!...And, of course, the head of an Agency that spied on workers/people would retire to a community named after Abraham Lincoln! (And notice, TRP calls it Lincolnwood before it was.)
(misc. I learned that Richard Powers went to high school here)
 

TRP choosing THIS ONE COMMUNITY by name, when he could have chosen any of thousands, is one of those details that expands in my mind like a good drug---remember in 'Slow Learner" when he said he once used a word he really did not know and did not look up?........never again, it seems, never..........