<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:02 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">Jim,<br>
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The W in Fred W. Schneider stands for Windy. :<)<br>
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You are bringing back memories …. very fond memories Jim. The week beginning March 28 and ending around April 6th, 1953 was my spring break from 8th grade. Monday I rode the interurban to Washington and Tuesday I rode the Charleroi line. That was back in the days when teenagers knew what the limits were and could even go into stores unattended without being evicted. Don't know about your neighborhood, but I know of some malls today (South Hills Village for example) that will not let kids under 18 in without a parent or guardian.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Those days" included my teen years. I routinely shopped unattended, including at SHV. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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OK, come Saturday … that would be April 4th, I had documents from Pittsburgh Railways to let my father and me into both Plummer Street and Tunnel car houses to take pictures. My father, being a model builder and an engineer, was more interested than I was. The shop foeman at Plummer Street was telling him all about the maintenance practices and he was enthralled. Me, I was doubled over in pain.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Plummer St's Thorofare nee Giant Eagle is currently being reopened as a Busy Beaver home improvement center. Think a smaller Home Depot/Lowes with less stuff (and in some cases, not as good. they used to be better but they are sort of a local discount home improvement chain). There are banners up outside, or were when I biked past last week.<br>
</div><br>--<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Daria<br></div></div></div>