[PRCo] Re: Location?

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings
Yes Wilkinsburg has changed.  But I went to the movies thare and had 
Saturday
lunch  there until I moved in 1976. 

You can go any where along the East Busway stations.  I do.

As usual, I dont always agree with Fred's views. 

Harold Geissenheimer

Fred Schneider wrote:

>Now there's a name I've never seen before.  Joshua Dunfield?  How about telling
>us something about yourself?  An introduction?
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>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.
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>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.
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>There is a big difference when you cross the railroad between Homewood and Point
>Breeze.  It never ceases to startle me.
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>Joshua Dunfield wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>So take the bus; it probably follows the trolley route, anyway.
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>>>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.
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>>*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.
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>>-j.
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