[PRCo] Those Roberta Hill Pictures

[Fred Schneider]

My initial reactions to the Roberta Hill pictures Ken:

1.  That was my Pittsburgh ... a little dusty on the underbelly,  
hazy, smelled of hydrogen sulfide.  There were jobs for those with a  
strong back.

2.  The streets were cleaner but perhaps rougher.   The Ligonier  
blocks were never smooth but the denizens didn't use their  
neighborhoods for waste baskets.

3.  People lived in the houses ... perhaps 300,000 more than today.

4.  I never minded walking around any of those areas.   I don't feel  
quite the same today about McKees Rocks or Braddock or Wilkinsburg or  
Homewood East Liberty or Atwood Street or Glenwood or the North Side  
including anything from the city limits to Manchester.

5.  I wish I could go back for one sunny week in 1948 with todays  
zoom lenses and Fuji Astia and the wisdom that years bring.