Library trolleys and Jane Bloor & Castles In Ireland etc., etc., etc

[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

Castles in Ireland??? We're gonna raise the *ire* of the list owner and
*land* in trouble! ;-)

Speaking of ethnicity, I brought a binder filled with several dozen
Roberta Hill pics on the Drake shuttle during the last week. People
clustered around me to look at the pictures and tell stories. One middle
aged white woman suddenly exclaimed, "Look! 85-Bedford! I used to live
on Wylie and rode that all the time!" When our eyes met, she know right
away questions turning in my mind. She explained she was Jewish and that
"The Hill" was a Jewish neighborhood when she was a little girl.

I don't know where the Jewish neighborhoods were or are in Pittsburgh,
but I do know that this woman didn't look much older than me. And
judging by Ms. Hill's photos from the '60's and my recollections as a
child, "The Hill" has been an African-American neighborhood for a long
time. 

Then there was the little elderly guy I met at the loop who claimed he
ran the very last 21-Fineview car, but looked as if he needed to sit on
several telephone books to sit this high in the motorman's seat:

http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/jpg/kjpgh141.jpg

Maybe he shrunk with age! ;-) Ken J.