<div dir="ltr">Picking pockets on crowded PATransit buses and trolleys was still going on in the 1970s and 80s. Several times I had passengers come up and tell me someone had tried to pick their pocket. It always seemed to be within 4 or 5 feet of either side of the center doors. So if I received a complaint I would always make a general announcement to the bus or car, "watch your wallets and purses.....pickpockets near the center doors". The innocent would always stay put while the "actors" would quickly move away from the center door area and usually leave at the next stop. At least I could keep an eye on them until they did get off the vehicle.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This reads more like Lisbon or Naples than Pittsburgh…..<br>
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<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6675%2C1923781" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6675%2C1923781</a><br>
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And after you read this, turn the page to read about the lady who builds model trolley cars. She is on page 4, column 2.<br>
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But then so do some of the other things I have been reading in 1947 such as the guy who burnt out the furniture factory on the North Side and then told the owners wife that if he had the nerve to rebuild, he will find a bullet through the brain.<br>
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In January 1947 the AFL and the CIO (this was long before they merged) were fighting over who should represent the brewers in Pittsburgh. It was called the Beer War. By January 22, it had been going on for something like 125 days. A couple of days before this one operation was dynamited over the argument.<br>
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Scroll down to find the relevant story … Whitaker Borough protests a bus line extension because buses might hit cars at our unsafe intersection.<br>
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<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1584%2C1963134" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1584%2C1963134</a><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>.........A State of Mind</div>
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