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Several of us were there 2 years ago. Ed, John Swindler, John Polyak, Chick Seibert and myself made a trip out from uptown.<div><br></div><div>I zoomed in on the view to show the row homes. The large house in the original image is now a Rite-Aid.<br><br><div>Dennis F. Cramer <br><a href="http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/" target="_blank">http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/</a></div><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:54:26 -0800<br>> From: wb3iqe@rocketmail.com<br>> To: pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Traffic on Oakmont Avenue<br>> <br>> --- On Wed, 1/30/13, Barry, Matthew R <mrb190@pitt.edu> wrote:<br>> <br>> > This would appear to be the roadway below and parallel to<br>> > Allegheny River Blvd., with railroad tracks in the<br>> > middle. I thought the Verona-Oakmont<br>> > carline ran on Allegheny River Blvd, but I am not sure.<br>> > Anyone know?<br>> <br>> I didn't, but the Hopkins Real Estate Map at:<br>> <br>> http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/browse.html<br>> <br>> does. I've attached a snippet of the appropriate map, (Eastern Vicinity, 1915, plate 36) slightly annotated. Derrick's Magic Mail Mauler will store it away somewhere in the bowels of his machine, leaving behind a link to it.<br>> <br>> The red circle with a couple lines radiating from it marks where I think the cameraman stood to take the picture. As can be seen on the map, the street visible in the photo is Oakmont Avenue. <br>> <br>> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob<br>> <br>> <br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>> Name: oakmont.jpg<br>> Type: image/jpeg<br>> Size: 138753 bytes<br>> Desc: not available<br>> Url : http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20130130/5f8b8fe7/attachment.jpg <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>> Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br></div></div> </div>
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