[PRCo] Re: Location?

[Fred Schneider]

Now there's a name I've never seen before.  Joshua Dunfield?  How about telling
us something about yourself?  An introduction?

My sister doesn't think Wilkinsburg is bad but then she lives there.  I remember
it as a town where we would shop or have dinner on Saturday night when Mom didn't
want to cook.  But that was 1947, 1948, 1949.

I'm not trying to totally blow Mark's mind ... just provide a little bit of a
warning.  I've been in a lot of those neighborhoods in the last two or three
years, particularly when John Bromley asked me where a certain picture was
taken.  But it is nice to warn the unsuspecting first.  I've also wandered around
West Philadelphia.  None of these are neighborhoods where this 64 year old would
like to have his car break down.

There is a big difference when you cross the railroad between Homewood and Point
Breeze.  It never ceases to startle me.

Joshua Dunfield wrote:

> > 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.
>
> So take the bus; it probably follows the trolley route, anyway.
>
> >  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.
>
> *shrug*  Wilkinsburg isn't that bad.  I've never walked around Homewood
> proper; the area around the Homewood busway station is okay, but I
> believe that's actually Point Breeze.
>
> -j.