[PRCo] East End neighborhoods

[Bob Rathke]

Some of these neighborhoods were still (sort of) okay in early 1967 when a
small group of us spent Friday evenings and early Saturday mornings taking
night shots during the last weeks of the East End lines (trolleys didn't run
on weekends at that time, so weekday evenings provided our only
opportunity).  We went everywhere east of downtown - Homewood, East Liberty,
Wilkinsburg, East Pittsburgh - setting up our tripods on the streets and at
the loops.

I don't think I'd do it today.

Bob 2/28/04

-----------------------------
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Location?


> Remember now, Mark, there are some neighborhoods that you really don't
want
> to enter without the 82nd Airborne Division in your car for protection.  A
> lot of places that I used to be taken as a boy that were quite OK then but
> are not today ... Braddock, Rankin, North Braddock, Wilkinsburg, Homewood,
> Brushton, parts of East Liberty, even parts of the North Side.  Basically,
> follow the Pennsylvania Railroad to the east ... those were the older and
> now decaying neighborhoods.
>
> Mark McGuire wrote:
>
> >  Gee, Fred! I'd love to tour the North Side and East End with you
> > sometime. I never ventured into these areas very much when I lived
> > in Pittsburgh. Had the streetcars still been running when I was a teen,
> > I'd have been all over the system I'm sure. I was relegated to just
> > 42/38, 35, 36, and 49Arlington-Warrington. My mother went to Perry
> > High on the North Side. My brother, who is a city cop, lives on Ivory
> > Ave.(isn't this near Evergreen?). I'd love to see where the streetcars
> > once ran.
> >   I plan on being at PTM for the rollout of Red Arrow 14 June 26th.
> >
> >                         Mark Mc
>
>
>