[PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge

[Fred Schneider]

Back in the late 1960s I spent a miserable two years teaching in a public high
school in the Lancaster area ... best thing I ever did was leave and find
something I loved to do.  One of my impressions during that period is that most
of the kids I worked with considered a long vacation trip to be a Saturday
journey to the Delaware Park Race Track in Newark, Delaware.  The teacher of
Pennsylvania history had never been west of Harrisburg ... you should have heard
him trying to pronounce Monongahela.

And when I was awaiting the ship for Germany in 1959, the army detailed me to
the finance office at Fort Dix to type up payroll vouchers for those chaps
coming back home from Europe.  I was stunned.  Most people had no interest in
seeing Germany or France or wherever it was we had placed them.  We were paying
almost every one of them (somewhere over 90 percent) for every single day of
vacation they accumulated while in Europe.  (I let them pay me for zero days
when I came home.)

Railfans are an odd lot in more ways than one.  Few "normal" people I've met had
the comprehension of maps that the average railfan does.  Isn't it great?

Bob Rathke wrote:

> Many people in Pittsburgh have never left "their" side of the river, let
> alone travel out of the state.  So, some people on the South Side would
> never know that Brady Street was on the other end of the South 22nd St.
> Bridge :-)
>
> Bob 3/4/05
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:44 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge
>
> > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Swindler wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Interesting.  I never heard it referred to as the 22nd St. bridge, but
> then
> > > I lived in the East End.  I would tend to link a numbered street with
> the
> > > strip district and routes 87 and 88.
> >
> > South 22nd st, but that's commonly left out. Remember the 10th st bridge
> > goes from 2nd Avenue at the Armstrong Tunnels to the South Side. Really it
> > is the south 10th St bridge. Some old maps still call the new bridge the
> > 22nd St Bridge. Of course, 22nd St is *next to* the bridge, but...
> >
> >