[PRCo] Re: Photo Spots (It still works!)

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Of course, what we tend to forget is that we really cannot judge past
events in light of current conditions.  They simply don't fit together.

The reason that PRC could pose cars in the middle of a major
intersection is simple ... it wasn't major then.  Very few people lived
on the outer reaches of Frankstown Road.  Deere Brothers ran a school
bus for the public once an hour (By the 1970s PAT was running busses on
2 or 3 minute headways).  We didn't have 53-foot semi-trailers then. 
Instead we had 40-foot railroad box cars. We had automobiles ... nearly
one for each family ... but they were sitting in the parking lot at
Mesta or US Steel or the concrete plant in Universal during the day and
mom was waiting at Wood and Oliver for Mister Deere to take her home. Or
maybe she was waiting for the 78 Wilkensburg-Verona-Oakmont trolley
car.  

One other thought ... if you were so damn blind that you drove your
machine into the side of the streetcar being posed for pictures, you
paid the damages.  You wouldn't have gotten very far trying to litigate
against Pittsburgh Railways for parking the trolley in the middle of the
intersection.  In those days we didn't blame the highway department for
failing to line the highways with rubber cushions.  

I wanta go back! 

Kenneth Josephson wrote:
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> "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
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> >  ... the
> > favored location for many years for roster record pictures was on North
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