[PRCo] Re: Memories

[James B. Holland]

Mark McGuire wrote:

> My mother was a Perry High graduate in 1944. Someone in my family 
> still has the yearbook as mom is now deceased. Probably one of my 
> sisters. They save things like that. I remember looking through it as 
> a kid and laughing at all the "weird" hairdoos. She used to talk about 
> taking the trolley to Westview Park all the time. Wished she could 
> have taken a 4-year-old on a nostalgic trip before the line ceased to 
> exist.
> She married my dad soon after graduation and they eventually bought a 
> home on Killarny Drive in Castle Shannon. Once again close to a 
> trolley line. Wasn't everything back then?. It was her stories about 
> the "bridges" on the Shannon lines that eventually made me go 
> exploring at 11 or 12 years old. She never found out I did. I wish I 
> could tell her now. And thank both her and my grandmother for their 
> memories.
> I remember bits and pieces of the Italian Picnics they would take us 
> to. Very good time. Does anyone know where the Italian picnics were 
> held? I'd like to know. I was too young to remember very much. I 
> certainly would not remember where they were held. Maybe somewhere on 
> the North Side????
>
> Mark


Very Interesting  --  ask around your family  --  someone might know 
about the picnics.       I am kind of curious now that you mentioned 
it.       Dad is gone and Mom has dementia so she won't remember  --  
otherwise I would have a source.


Jim__Holland