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

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings to all:

Yes.  Even in western Pennsylvania.  Two brothers in my National Guard
unit lived in Manor, Pa.  The trolley r/w was side of road in frontof their
house.  They, and their neighbors, had TV.  It did affect their life style.

Harold Geissenheimer

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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