[PRCo] Re: "Television is keeping people at home,".......

[Fred W. Schneider III]

I have tentatively set up maping of PaNJ Ry, Two Balls and Peter, and
perhaps the PRT Willow Grove to Doylestown line with Barker Gummerie. 
Once I get some free time ... maybe tomorrow or Wednesday ... I'll fill
you in on your part of the details.  I want to go up to Clay and get
maps that I need, and be able to tell you what you need.  And I'll want
you to call Barker and set up the date details ... I'll give you his
number.

But today I have to get the church collection processed, go to rehab,
and buy a ticket to London.  

Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> My apologies, Ed!
> 
>         Didn't mean this to point fingers - just to point out the parallel.
> And while the WP corporate decision was made, the lines hung on thru the
> advent of TV and were possibly affected by TV keeping people at home in
> 1951 and 1952!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
> 
> But please remember that this is an urban area, not a series of
> small towns 50 miles away.  Please also remember that I've never
> said TV didn't cause smaller passenger counts...what I said was
> that West Penn made the corporate decision to get out of the trolley
> business before Pittsburgh's first TV station went on the air.
> 
> Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> Holland
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 3:04 AM
> To: -->- PRCo -- WP -- JTC -- The Big *3* -<--
> Subject: [PRCo] "Television is keeping people at home,".......
> 
> .......from the January--1954  *ERA Headlights*
> (although OT for Pgh., it is a subject discussed
> here relevant to WP)  --  and I quote:::
> 
>         ......."and not even $55,000 worth of newer interurban
> cars and better service can lure them away in their leisure time,
> say officials of Portland Traction Co.  They report an 11% drop
> in traffic on the Oregon City and Bellrose lines since introduction
> of the eight 'new' cars from Pacific Electric last spring."
>         "The company feels that while there may have been some
> increase in use of automobiles in the area, most of the drop can
> be blamed on TV, pointing out that competing bus lines of another
> company have suffered a similar drop in traffic.  The Traction
> Company's city bus and TC routes have had an 8% decline in
> passengers in the same period."
> 
> --
> James B. Holland
> 
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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