[PRCo] Re: Latrobe, errata

robert netzlof wb3iqe at rocketmail.com
Fri Feb 7 00:05:19 EST 2003


--- robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> When I was a wee lad, there were rails visible in the brick
> pavement
> at the corner of Alexandria and Bluff Streets.

I should have said: "at the corner of Alexandria and Thompson
Streets".

> I was told that "the
> street car to Derry came down Alexander St (nobody in Latrobe ever
> said Alexandria) and turned here to go out of town". There were
> also
> some ties embedded in the tar "pavement" of Bluff Street.

Looking at a map just now I see that the street is called Derry
Street. Honest, it was Bluff Street 40 or 50 years ago, I swear it was.

=====
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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