[PRCo] Re: Knowing the neighborhoods

[Fred Schneider]

Great way to get it back on topic.  And I'll also suggest, don't stay in Motel 6
in Pittsburg, California.  They have a gate guard who vanishes when it gets
dark, and the desk clerk makes you sign an affidavit that you will not do
anything illegal in your room.  Different Pittsburg.

And there are other great ways to find what else surrounds you ... examples that
I've done:

     1.  Photograph all the covered bridges within 50 miles of home.

     2.  Look for and photograph all of the pre-revolutionary houses and
buildings.  There are a lot of those in southeastern Pennsylvania.

     3.  Simply hunt pretty farms to photograph.   Trees too.

Nuff said.   fws

Bob Rathke wrote:

> Fred,
>
> I continue to be amazed at how often I meet people who have lived in Chicago
> all their lives, but have no idea of the areas just a few miles beyond their
> neighborhoods.
>
> I've lived here since late 1983, and I think that by early 1984 I had
> studied the street maps and I had a good idea where neighboring towns were
> located.  I even went out and visited some of these neighborhoods, just to
> see where they are and what they look like.
>
> Yesterday I had a meeting with a business professional in the Loop who has
> lived here nearly all his life, but he has never been in Union Station, nor
> does he know exactly where it is located.
>
> I still remember the New Yorker I met when I was living in Manhattasn in
> 1968.  I told him that I was from Pittsburgh, and he replied, "Isn't that in
> the Poconos?"
>
> Bob 3/4/05
>
> -----------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:55 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge
>
> > 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
> > >
> > > -----------------------------
> > > ----- 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...
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >