[PRCo] Re: 84 Larimer/96 East Liberty

[Fred Schneider]

Matt:
In my lifetime, yes, 96 ran from 62nd and Butler up through Morningside, Negley,
Highland, and then looped on the Larimer - Paulson St. loop.

I have no current bus map handy but I imagine so.   This room is so deep in debris
that a robber would run out of fear of an earthquake.   There is at least one
somewhere in this house.  You probably want to direct that question to John Swindler
because odds are he was one right in his desk at work. The 96 rail line, by the way,
earlier ran from downtown to East Liberty via Butler Street.

Remember too that the route cards end about 1943 and there is no indication what PRC
ran in the final years of the war.  For all I know, 96 Butler St. and 84 Larimer
could have been reactivated.  Furthermore, Pittsburgh, like many other cities, had
more impressive transit patronage in the first year after the war than they did in
1945 owing to the return of servicemen who were unable to buy automobiles.  In most
large cities the patronage drop began in 1947.



Matt Barry wrote:

> So, I take it the Larimer route was really an altered version of 82
> Lincoln, that is, instead of following the 82 up  Lincoln Avenue, it
> turned off onto Larimer Avenue, to Paulson?
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> The route that regularly worked the Larimer Ave. - Paulson Street area
> was route 96, correct?    That route of course, when it left the Larimer
> area, went up Penn Ave. to Negley, to Stanton, thru Morningside, to
> Butler Street ( a scenic route, at the top of Morningside side and then
> along the Allegheny River on Butler St.).     Does anyone know if this
> route was replaced as it was, by bus?
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> I seem to recall that in the early 60's, for a short time, there was a
> thru bus to Morningside that ran along Butler Street to town.
>
> Fred Schneider wrote:
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> >Regarding 84 Larimer ...
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> >The last reference in the route cards was in 1925 at which time it was a
> >Larimer and Paulson night version of 82 Lincoln.  The card for 84 simply said
> >that revenue is included with 82.  No information was shown for schedules.  And
> >the 82 card did now show a separate section for night cars.  It may have been
> >the best kept secret in town.
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> >If it did have PCC cars, none of us would have been up to photograph them.
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