[PRCo] Re: Rt. 49 and Brownsville Ave. single track

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> 
> I hope we are not going to get into the intersecting of Fifth and Sixth
> Avenues!!!

How about the corner of Penn and Liberty?
> 
> So it appears that Arlington was Brownsville Road around 1927 (Approx time
> of the court proceeding that John started this with), and Arlington Ave. by
> 1931.  Well, we got that unless and irrelevant piece of information down to
> a 4 year span. 

Actually I suppose I (should have known) this, because parenthetically
Arlington is "Brownsville Rd" on the Sanborn fire insurance maps, in this
case I was looking at 1950 or so.

Not that I've had a lot of time recently but Hunt Library at CMU has 4
states, one of which is PA, with several years in the PA set, on microfilm

-D