[PRCo] Re: Pgh.___1985

[Fred Schneider]

Can you imagine working in a trolley museum and trying arouse the publics' interest.  You need to be over
age 30 now to remember trolleys in downtown Pittsburgh.  Fifty-year olds might vaguely remember when we
charged a high enough fare to run the service.   You need to be past 60 to remember the West Penn or Jones
cars.  And you need to be around 95 today to remember when you rode everywhere on the trolley or you
walked along a dusty road.   (I'm speaking generalities, of course.  But 1923 was probably as close as you
get to the peak of railway operations and also enough paved roads they people were extensively using them.
Its sort of like trying to explain the life of Beethoven, Wagner or Vivaldi.

My sixteen year old granddaughter got this "you're kidding me" look on her face when I mentioned that we
didn't have TV or frozen food when I was born, and that my dad was born into an era without telephones,
radio, automobiles.



matt wrote:

> NICE!
>
> Jeeez, hard to think of 1985 as 20 years ago, but danged if it wasn't!
> I still think of the PCC cars as having only recently been running on the
> streets of Downtown Pittsburgh.   Well, recently as the mid-eighties.
>
> Liked the photos a lot.    The sequence of coming down the parkway, that
> spectacular view that meets us as we emege from the ft. Pitt tunnels,
> something those of us who still live here probably take for granted more
> often than not.
>
> Often wished I had taken more photos during those years.
>
> Thanks for sharing.
> Matt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
> To: "- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:28 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Pgh.___1985
>
> > *HIGHLY*  Graphics  Intensive  URL  below by Robert Pence who made a
> > trip to Pgh. and caught some of the last days of PCCs on downtown
> > streets  (but Many photos besides TrolleyCars as well.)       If I leave
> > my computer running for the rest of the week it may be completely loaded.
> >
> > http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?s=686c69bc86dc5e4f7007be43bf18f024&threadid=66134
> >
> >
> > Jim__Holland
> >
> >
> >