[PRCo] Re: [Fwd: Pittsburgh Rwy Cars]

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, ROGER Jenkins wrote:

> 
> Well Fred if two publications said it was TV that reduced the riding on
> West Penn and you did not believe it, what do you think the real reason
> was? To me it sounded plausible that the draw of watching Ed Sullivan
> and a whole lot of other things on the 12 inch sets like my neihbor had
> where us kids went to watch  it, made perfect sense. Instead of riding
> the trolley to the local bijou , people stayed home glued to that new
> fangled picture box !

TV: not in 1952 in little coal patch and beehive coke oven towns. 

-D