[PRCo] Re: Pgh.___1985

[Matt Barry]

I hear that.   Pittsburghers, at least those of us who are traction 
fans, were lucky to have most of the East End lines until 1967.   Young 
as I was, I can still recall that mixed feeling of being very happy a 
PCC car was approaching, with being slightly scared as those steel 
wheels swiftly braked at the car stop on Penn at 40th street.   To my 
ears, the noise was loud and wonderful all at once.
I don't remember what the fare was in '67, but later in the year I 
remember catching an 88 Frankstown bus, returning from grade school at 
Penn & 37th for a ride up to Penn &  45th, and I think the fare was less 
than 25 cents for me.     Recollection is that I slid a quarter into the 
fare box and the driver felt bad that he couldn't give me change.  By 
then, it was the "ready fare system."



Fred Schneider wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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>>NICE!
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Often wished I had taken more photos during those years.
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>>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
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>>>*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.
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>>>http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?s=686c69bc86dc5e4f7007be43bf18f024&threadid=66134
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>>>Jim__Holland
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