[PRCo] Re: Brookline

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Well, route 33 is a little different.   There are pictures around of
> cars awaiting scrapping with 33 signs turned up.    Route 32 P&LE
> TRANSFER is really nothing but a shortened route 33.    Ed Lybarger
> found some street pictures showing how bad the track was ... I think
> they may be Allegheny County streets pictures.

Either that or Pittsburgh City Photographer, I remember seeing them.

> configured by 1868.   The sheer bulk of the North Side was annexed
> along with the City of Allegheny in 1907.

And it has been theorized that the political battle over that was the 
cause of Pittsburgh later being unable to continue absorbing outward. I 
wish I still had the reference, it was pretty decent if not solid.

Derrick