[PRCo] Re: Memories

[Fred Schneider]

Could it have been West View?   My family never understood Kennywood 
simply because Perry High School held their annual picnics at West 
View.  And Armstrong Cork Company (today's Armstrong World Industries) 
had corporate picnics at West View.  Even though we lived in the east,  
parents only took me to Kennywood once.  I lost could of the times we 
went to West View. 
Whole new subject here ... all the ethnic picnics and ethnic days .... 
Italian, Ukranian, Polish, Hungarian, etc. .... with their taste 
delights.  Damn, I wish I knew where I could get a plate of cheese and 
potato pirogies now, smothered in onions and butter. 

James B. Holland wrote:

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>>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????
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>>Mark
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>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.
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