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

[Harold G.]

Don and all

The 77/54 trolley in Pgh went from the GermanNorth Side
to the foot of Polish hill and Lawrence ville.  Many ethnic
neighborhoods in Pgh centered around a church.

Harold Geissenheimer
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Galt <galtfd at att.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:18 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge


>On 5 Mar 2005 at 8:28, Ken & Tracie wrote:
>
>> Sounds like Milwaukee. People used to say the 27th Street Viaduct was the
>> longest bridge in the world....it connected Germany to Poland! :-)
>>
>
>Wow! as impressive as a bridge connecting the US and Canada.
>
>The cultural chasm between Germany and Poland, on the other hand - in the
era
>of those immigrants to Milwaukee, at any rate - no bridge could ever span.
>
>You want an impressive work of man, try the Great Northern tunnel in
Seattle,
>stretching from Maine to Virginia.
>
>Actually, I lie. It runs from Main Street to Virginia Street. The joke
works
>only in the spoken version - or in writing only if you attach the alternate
>spelling in the manner of a French-language pun.
>
>Don
>
>