[PRCo] Re: 1936___Flood

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

Carnegie Library has the photo -
http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/downtown/down_n29.html

Bob

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Schneider
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:27 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1936___Flood

My parents lived in a rented home in Oakmont at the time.   Dad took
quite a few pictures of Oakmont and Verona in the flood.  Sadly, as he
got older the mind was no longer clear.  He threw everything out without
the slightest question about their value.   There is a common picture
that the Pittsburgh Press published (the marooned photographer probably
walked out of their inbound loading dock onto the Pennsylvania Railroad
elevated) showing a streetcar on Liberty or Penn in water up to the roof
carlines (that would be something above nine feet of water on the
street).   I think I may have the newspapers but finding them in this
pit is problematic.
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