[PRCo] Re: North or South?

[Harold G.]

Bob and all.

You should have talked Chicago style

"0000 West" and "0000 North"

Its a good system for strangers

Salt Lake City just uses the numbers with no street
name.

Harold Geissenheimer
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: [PRCo] North or South?


>Reminds me of the day in the mid-1980's when I had to call parents of boys
>in our Chicago Little League and tell them that an upcoming baseball game
>was being switched to another field.
>
>One of the pasrents I called said she needed directions to the new field.
I
>asked her if she lived north or south of Lake Cook Road (a major east-west
>highway here).  She replied, "I don't know.  I'm from New York."
>
>Bob 3/5/05
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 9:53 AM
>Subject: [PRCo] Fw: North side details
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harold G. <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
>> To: ways at dementia.org <ways at dementia.org>; pittsburgh-rai
<pittsburgh-rai>
>> Date: Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:53 AM
>> Subject: North side details
>>
>>
>> Bob and all
>>
>> I never lived on the North Side but it was a neighborhood I
>> often visited.   Starting in l950 when I moved to Pgh and
>> lived in Dormont.  I was introduced to it by good friend
>> Charles Dengler.  I went with him in church on madison.
>>
>> I used PRC to shop at the busy North Side district before
>> Allegheny Center.
>>
>> Later my masonic lodge was a block off of Federal St. (It
>> is now in Avalon)  I went to makeup Rotary at the NS Rotary
>> on Fridays.  Harmony and Community buses passed thru
>> the NS frequently.  I used to see Dengler delivering the
>> mail on East Ohio Street.
>>
>> If I was out and about on weekends, I would use the Isalys
>> on East Ohio Street.   And there was a good german restaurant
>> on a corner nearby.
>>
>> Between Allegheny Center, East Street highway and the
>> stadium and ethnic change, it all ended.  South Side has
>> become a viable place again because it has none of these
>> "improvements"
>>
>> Bob, thanks for sharing.
>>
>> I came from Manhattan.   My mother's family lived on west 36th
>> street from the Civil War.   My father's father moved to 36th
>> street in the l890's and he was born there.  They both lived
>> on 36th street but did not know each other.  The met at a
>> church picnic after she had moved to Hudson County, NJ
>> After marriage, they lived in Hudson County where I was
>> born.  In the depression, we moved back to 36th Street and
>> I lived there thru college and then moved to Pgh.  The grade
>> school I attended was on 35th Street (now site of a police station)
>> One teacher there had my father as a student.  We went to the
>> Presbyterian Church on 36th Street.  Ninth Ave had every store
>> you could think of.
>>
>> In short, there were neigjhborhoods in New York City that lasted
>> for many decades.  All this in the shadow of the Empire State
>> Bldg, Macys and Penn station.  During the war I was an air raid
>> warden messenger in a zone that included all 3!
>>
>> Building Dyer Ave to connect with the new Lincoln tunnel ended
>> some of this.   But streets not affected by the tunnel have not
>> really changed.  I have a friend living on East 9th Street in the
>> East Village and there is not a new building on his block but its
>> a viable neighborhood.
>>
>> Mots European cities have not had this urge to redevelop.  Thank God.
>>
>> Harold Geissenheimer
>>
>>
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