[PRCo] Re: Changed to costs

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Hi Denis and all

Until 1961, Harmony short line had good service
to Ford City and Kittanning via Tarentum

No one picked up the franchises.  Community\
ended in Natrona Heights

Harold Geissenheimer

Dennis F. Cramer wrote:

>    You could all move to rural Armstrong County.  We are only a 45 minute
>drive from dahntahn and have absolutely no public transit access to anywhere
>outside of the county.  Utilities are relatively cheap, gas is still under
>$1.70, insurance is inexpensive (no one here to steal your car) and the
>housing market is definitely on the buyers side.
>    Oh, and to make things even better, the local Eljer Plumingware plant
>(the largest non institutional employer in the county) has just announced
>the layoff of almost 50% of their staff.  Employees with up to 17 years of
>service will have their jobs terminated by fall 2004.  Recession?? What
>recession?  We have not had an upturn since before the wage and price
>freezes of the Nixon era.
>    On the down side, route 28 near Pittsburgh is undergo a multi year
>reconstruction project that will slow that commute time down quite a bit.
>    Alive and living on the edge in Pennsyltuckey, this is your lost in the
>woods list member signing off.
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>Dennis F. Cramer--Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor
>www.geocities.com/armconband
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