<div dir="ltr">Thank you Phillip ! <br><br>I guess I will refrain from going out to buy sackcloth and ashes to wear here in what we were told is a dead Pittsburgh. Some people can just never see the positive side of anything.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:58 AM, PC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pcc_sr@yahoo.com" target="_blank">pcc_sr@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You must look past the first entries in the album Mr.Schneider. You 'say' the economy peaked in 1920 for Johnstown.<br>
This does not mean it died overnight like pulling the plug to drain a bathtub. Life and vitality goes on. 1920 is a technical<br>
figure for economists isn't it--a talking point with little application at the street level. These pictures are the 1920s into the<br>
1930s revealing life and vibrancy unlike the 1950s which had felt the ravages of the depression, WW2, and the steel decline which followed.<br>
Hardly an overnight sucking dry the health of the city is it.<br>
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These present an interesting picture of Johnstown with some life left in it. Please spare us an assessment of each picture, overbuilt // underbilt. Hindsight is claimed to be<br>
perfect isn't it, but "only" because facts are then "allegedly" known.<br>
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Please, get comfortable with The Administration, not to their benefit, but to the benefit of the American People. Give them the benefit of your knowledge and experience<br>
to get the country out of the current quagmire. Talk here is meaningless.<br>
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Why are you so sad and negative Mr.Schneider? Americans are the worst people in the world as is the nation itself. Nothing is right about the economy, nothing is right about transit,<br>
nothing is right about Pgh., nothing is right about Lancaster, and the list goes on and on and on doesn't it. One of the facts of life dad never mentions is this: When a person offers<br>
observations about a topic, most especially when unsolicited, that person is describing himself more than the topic isn't he.<br>
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Please: no private emails Mr.Schneider.<br>
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On Sat, 11/23/13, Fred Schneider <<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh<br>
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>><br>
Date: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 5:09 PM<br>
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I'm chuckling Phillip …<br>
<br>
Not at you but at how easy it is to visualize a city as<br>
healthy when we didn't know it when it really was<br>
healthy. Those pictures were taken in<br>
1950-1953. By 1953 it had lost about 10% of<br>
its peak population and that means about 10% of its peak<br>
employment. <br>
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Johnstown peaked in the 1920 census. It was<br>
one of those places like Braddock, Homestead and<br>
Sharpesburg. <br>
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Of course, for those of us who remember it from the 1950s<br>
… ugh. Today it is down 69% from its 1920<br>
peak and 63% from the end of streetcars in<br>
1960. The local transit authority today<br>
hauls a whopping 3,100 riders on a typical weekday in 2013<br>
…. surprisingly high for a city of its<br>
size.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Herb Brannon<b><font color="#888888"><div>In Pittsburgh............<br></div><div>.................A City And<br></div>And A State of Mind</font></b></div>
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