<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:46 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">Guys,<br>
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I began reading local newspapers about 50 … maybe 51 … years ago hunting local trolley history. It wasn't long before I realized that it wasn't just the trolley stuff I should be reading, but also the movie and amusement and industrial history too because that told me a lot about why people rode the cars. Eventually I built up quite a file about local history in Lancaster. Amazing when you make notes about when a certain building was erected or when the power lines were buried, how easy it is to date anonymous pictures. Over the years I found I can't just pick up an old newspaper and read about trolleys. I have to scan the whole thing. It can be fun.<br>
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And here are some of the things that caught my eye while hunting stuff on Pittsburgh Railways. It isn't necessarily about telling the search engine to find stuff about trolleys or street cars or streetcars or Pittsburgh Railways but just scanning the whole newspaper.<br>
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Man contests right of way with trolley in Homestead; man loses. Sadly he is too old for a Darwin Award….gets nothing for his efforts. All kidding aside … Dixon St. appears to have been a relatively busy street. Today it is protected by a traffic light.<br>
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<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4495%2C637741" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4495%2C637741</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>wonder which of my neighbors lives in that house now. if i walked to the window i suppose i could find out.<br></div><br></div></div></div>