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

[Harold G.]

Bob and all

Most of the guys in my National Guard unit had been
on a school field trip to Wash. DC.  They were rural
kids and went to the farm show in Harrisburg each year

Then came the time to get married,,,in a hurry.  Off to
Cumberland, Md.  When we did Secret security clearances
in my Nike unit...about one out of 5 went to Cumberland.
>From Phila, they went to Elkton. Md.

At Guard summer camp, most went to Detroit for the
weekend from Camp Perry Ohio or to Baltimore from
IGMR.

Cleveland was good for baseball games and Indianapolis
for Memorial Day races.  The all had cars so travel was easy.

I would say that they needed a reason to travel...and then they would.

These were all Westmoreland County farmers.

Harold Geissenheimer
-----Original Message-----
From: John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge


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>Except for the railfans after we discovered the Sunday/Holiday pass.
>Someone else mentioned that we tended to be somewhat of an odd lot - our
>hobby leads us to an understanding of maps.
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>John
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>>From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge
>>Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:25:34 -0600
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>>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 :-)
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>>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
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>> > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Swindler wrote:
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>> > > 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.
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>> > 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...
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