[PRCo] Re: Fw: North side details - also OT

[Boris Cefer]

Harold,

Didn't the manager come from the steel mill nearby Kosice in Slovakia?

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From: "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
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<rschwerer at sandiego.gov>; <paulwey at freecongress.org>; "Gregory Forster"
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Kittredge" <geno59 at wi.rr.com>; "Michael Loth" <barracuda at wi.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: North side details


> Greetings
>
> My former secretary in Pgh was of slovak decent.
> Her father came to USA to work in Homestead
> works and lived in West Homestead.  Marha
> still lives there.  And she has traveled the world.!
>
> A little side humor...US Steel moved a manager from
> Slovakia to run the mill in Braddock three years ago.
> Its a small world...Martha's father came to work in the
> mill..and this man came to run the mill.
>
> Harold Geissenheimer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken & Tracie <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Cc: Scott Greig <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>; Robert Schwerer
> <rschwerer at sandiego.gov>; paulwey at freecongress.org
> <paulwey at freecongress.org>; Gregory Forster <gforst.1956 at sbcglobal.net>;
> FRANK GRILLO <frank-j at webtv.net>; Eugene Kittredge <geno59 at wi.rr.com>;
> Michael Loth <barracuda at wi.rr.com>
> Date: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:05 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: North side details
>
>
> >Off Topic Warning!
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
> >
> >
> >> Most European cities have not had this urge to redevelop.  Thank God.
> >
> >The day of the average urban dwelling U.S. citizen being guaranteed
> >reasonable stability in a given neighborhood for even one generation is
> long
> >over.
> >
> >Do Europeans have the same issues with violent, poverty stricken "victim
> >class" people being moved into working class and middle class
neighborhoods
> >by well intended but misguided social programs? Programs which give the
> >former the opportunity to prey on the latter, forcing the latter to flee
to
> >outlying areas in order to recapture the security and quality of life
they
> >are accustomed to?
> >
> >I have friends who grew up on Pittsburgh's North Side. Some told me the
> >horror stories about "the projects" built below their neighborhood during
> >the late 1950s and early 1960s. It started out okay, but by the late
1960s,
> >the officials responsible for the housing programs began losing control
> over
> >this housing project. At first, the crime was confined within the housing
> >complex, but it spread into the surrounding  old, established areas.
> >
> >Only the most politically connected and wealthy can establish themselves
in
> >a nice neighborhood and have some control over what the local, state or
> >federal governments dump upon them!
> >
> >I am amazed that so many mass transit supporters and environmentalists
> align
> >themselves politically with people whose social programs destroy good
> >quality, high density urban living. The very thing which would be
conducive
> >to rail transit development. And such development would also protect
> >outlying rural areas from urban sprawl.
> >
> >Try to displace the criminal element and rebuild these "war zones" and
you
> >are accused of "gentrification." Kick longtime, established homeowners
out
> >to give their land to either deep pocketed commercial developers or
public
> >housing projects and it's called "urban renewal."
> >
> >K.
> >
> >P.S.- Please do not read anything racist into this! The last neighborhood
> we
> >had to flee was next to a Section Eight apartment complex full of WHITE
> >single parent households....households full of out of control children
who
> >vandalized and burglarized the longtime homeowners nearby. We were lucky.
> >They never bothered us (READ TWO LARGE DOGS!) We got out just in time.
> >
> >
> >
>
>