[PRCo] Re: The need for trolley cars....

[Fred Schneider]

Wow!    The only similarity with my parents was mom on North Side and  
dad at Carnegie Tech and the trolleys.

Actually, he graduated in 1930 in EE and she from Margaret Morrison  
in costume design in 1931.   But he didn't always room in Oakland.    
The woman who was to be my grandmother felt sorry for him taking the  
8 car downtown late every evening (or early every morning) that she  
eventually offered him the spare room in the basement and accepted  
rent from him.   I honestly think my father loved his mother-in-law  
more than his own mother.   His Model A came the year he graduated.


On Oct 4, 2005, at 11:44 PM, Shirley Tennyson wrote:

>   I went to Carnegie Tech in 1940 leaving my family's auto in New
> Jersey. They kept it.
>   I went nowhere except by trolley. In Dec. 1941, Pearl Harbor got hit
> and in 1942 gasoline was rationed.  (Exception = I took a Model A ride
> from Pittsburgh to New Jersey to save money but it broke down)
>    I met my intended in May 1942. I had no car (other than street car)
> I lived in the dormatory but did belong to a fraternity that had a
> house. Few members had cars.
> My new girl friend lived across the city on the North Side   and I was
> at Schenley Park.  I got to know the owl street car schedules.  The  
> girl
> was a good sport. She never complained about having to travel by  
> street
> car.   She gave up an Air Force ROTC officer who had access to a  car.
> We spent some late evenings at the fraternity house thern on the  
> Forbes
> Street (now Avenue) trolley to downtown and the #6 out Brighton  
> Road to
> Davis Ave. I would take her home there and go back for the owl cars  
> back
> to Schenley Park.  One weekend day time, we took the Bellevue car to
> WestView and walked some country roads to Ben Avon and got the  
> Emsworth
> car back.  Another time we took the Charleroi Interurban to South Park
> Road and walked to South Park for a picnic coming back after dsrk.
>    I was away in the service 1943-4-5 so we got married in 1944 when I
> got my commission but still no car. We moved to Pittsburgh's South  
> Hills
> in 1947 with no car.  If we went  anywhere it was by interurban or  
> peak
> Library tripper until we had a baby   and a Pgh Ry friend drove us to
> the hospital and later back.
>   The baby went to church on the inter- urban, a 15-mile trip to
> Shadyside  as my New Jersey minister was there and he was fisrt rate.
> We accepted it as no big problem,  We  got our first car for our  
> second
> baby in Milwaukee in 1950.  I still use transdit and my wife sometimes
> as  trips to airports and Union Station.
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