[PRCo] Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS

[Fred Schneider]

Right ... with red and orange and black dirt from the steel mills on top of
newly fallen snow?   And ashes on the streets?

I remember my Grandma Rebele's admonishment not to take of my shoes and walk
barefoot on her carpet.  I would get my feet filty and that was not to go on the
sheets.  The carpet was filled with the dirt from the streets.

And then there was the day that Norm Vutz went off to college in Pittsburgh ...
he had done some body work on his car.  The old pink color on the 1948 Ford
(hey, it was classy) disappeared under fresh gray primer.  He said the primer
had a special name ...........
Pittsburgh White.

And there is a great picture of me taking my earliest steps in the front yard
... toddling along next to Mom.  Judging by the foliage, it was spring or summer
1941.  The house behind me had built in 1937.  And by the time the picture was
taken, none of the white trim was still white.  It was gray.   Dad once remarked
that he spent the first week of every vacation painting the house.  Then he
could go away.

And you want to go there and get a good dose of that in your lungs?

The grass isn't always greener in the other guy's pasture.

Boris Cefer wrote:

> Can you make the time flow back? I'd like to spend such winter with PCCs in
> Pittsburgh!
>