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

[Harold G.]

Boris and all   YES   He is from Slovakia    Harold
-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Cefer <westinghouse at iol.cz>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:10 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: North side details - also OT


>Harold,
>
>Didn't the manager come from the steel mill nearby Kosice in Slovakia?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Cc: "Scott Greig" <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>; "Robert Schwerer"
><rschwerer at sandiego.gov>; <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>
>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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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