<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Morrow school is still in the same place, Derrick. It is a nursing / old folks home today. I know because I drove my wife there about a year ago to show her (actually remind me) where I went to first and second grades. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Go to Google Maps and search for Penn Hills Senior Center or 195 Jefferson Road, Penn Hills, Pa. You'll find it. </b></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we should ask Donna if she remembers Crescent Hills. I spent my first nine years at 173 Crescent Hills Drive. That was back when we expected kids to grow up instead of protecting them from themselves so that they didn't grow up. I used to have to walk a half mile from the house to the bus stop in front of the municipal building on Frankstown Road each morning to catch the school bus, and a half mile back each evening. (Wouldn't have been much farther if I had gone out the back door, down through the woods to Lime Hollow Road, up the hill, across Frankstown Road and through the woods to the school on Rodi.) </div><div><br></div><div>Third grade was Universal School. One night I got off the bus at Frankstown and Lime Hollow and took the short route home. I caught hell from the teacher the next day for that. </div><div><br></div><div>And fourth grade … well by then I was in Lititz (alius Little you know what's) in Lancaster County. I was walking all over the borough of 5,000 people drawing my own map of the town. And when I wasn't doing that, I was hanging out in the Reading train station. Now if they see a kid of that age on the loose, they arrest the parents for being incompetent. </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:27 PM, D Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>(not really)<br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1664469628768&set=a.1664463908625.54400.1748082272&type=3&theater">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1664469628768&set=a.1664463908625.54400.1748082272&type=3&theater</a><br><br>is Wilmerding. Doesn't look like it today but it was one of like two places<br>where the terrain and density was about right, and I knew Trafford's loop<br>because I used to catch the bus a few feet from it daily.<br><br>Here's a shot looking the other way from loop level instead of off the old<br>viaduct. note the building on the left of this shot. It's the same building<br>beside the loop in the other.<br><br>http://www.pittsburghtransit.info/1466wilmerdingloop.jpg<br><br>Man, Wilmerding looks like it was so much more vital before, but I guess in<br>the postwar era everyone moved to the surrounding hills.<br><br>I had occasion at the beginning of August to meet Grateful Fred's wife<br>Dona, and upon hearing I grew up near Turtle Creek, she asked about her<br>childhood home. We panned around a map and could find no streets in Turtle<br>Creek that fit. Then pictures followed. I guessed perhaps Wilkins or Penn<br>Hills. Then she remembered her plan name: Penn Ridge. I found houses that<br>looked about right but the terrain didn't match her memory. A name of a<br>school - Morrow - and we knew we were about in the right place (the new<br>Penn Hills High School is on the site today). Anyway, some more pictures,<br>her brother's memory, and a topographic map from USGS Historical and we<br>knew which house it was: I had been within a few houses of it once we had<br>the name of the plan!<br><br>Anyway, everyone after the war was happy to get their plot of land so their<br>kids had somewhere to play. I get it. I grew up in it. I lived in it. But I<br>am in my 40s, I have no kids, and I lead an active adult life. So for me,<br>old Wilmerding would be a better deal than old Penn Hills (Penn Township,<br>at the time). Hence my urban life now.<br><br>Funny how things go.<br><br>-- <br>Daria<br><br><br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20141010/a051bb68/attachment.html><br>_______________________________________________<br>Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br></div></blockquote></div><br>
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