[PRCo] Re: 4th of July

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

>> Jim Holland commented:

>>       Fireworks were staged in the swimming pool parking
>> lot with backup on the hill opposite the pool.    A 
>> *Huge*  Public Park bordered the swimming pool,
>> Dormont Avenue, and ran up to the High School and its 
>> *Huge*  *Ball__Park!*

> John Swindler wrote:
 
> Was this the swimming pool adjacent to Banksville
> Road near Cochran Rd?

>>> Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>>> It is now; I have no idea if it always was.

	No.

> And if so, wasn't the park surrounding this swimming pool
> a former railroad yard??

	No  --  Dormont Park Way Too Hilly for Any RR.

	Cochran intersects Washington Rd // Rt.19 way south in
Mt.Lebanon, south of Clearview Loop, and ends at Greentree
Road  --  No Where near Banksville.    Actually, Cochran Is
Rt.19 to Beverly, then route-19 takes McFarland, then
Banksville.    Washington Rd // W.Liberty are Truck
Route.19.    Cochran had a High School for Mt.Lebanon not far
downhill from Washington Rd.    Was this the RR yard you
talked about?

	Banksville ends at Dormont and name changes to McFarland
(note that it is necessary to take Beverly, Dell, or other
streets between Cochran and McFarland  --  they don't
intersect either!)

	Dormont Pool was in the wedge formed by McFarland and Dormont
Avenue and pool was a part of Dormont Park which is bordered
by McFarland, Dormont Ave., and Annapolis.    High School 
*was*  on Annapolis with its ball field at the T formed by
Annapolis and Greenmount.    High School for Dormont is now
near McNeilly!

> Ahhh, yes, I remember that Isaly's store with much
> fondness.  In early 1960s, would start out on a day of 
> Sunday/Holiday pass riding with a dollar.  The pass cost
> 75 cents, and a quarter would buy an Isaly's milkshake.

> John

	I'd start my day after delivering Sunday morning papers  -- 
usually 6-AM.    Often made it to SHJ to ride some interurbans
pulling out of the yard  --  they would loop the admin bldg.
and head straight outbound quite often with me as the only
passenger!    Would head home for lunch and dinner and finish
the day about midnight in the summer, earlier during school
year!

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