[PRCo] Re: Cleveland Sidaway bridge

[Fred Schneider]

I was trying to hint, without any racial prejudice Derrick, that  
Perrysville Avenue and what we now call Perry Hilltop but didn't then  
has changed from very nice middle class and perhaps lower middle  
class to something much lower ... something analogous to walking  
along Kinsman Avenue in Cleveland.   I'm not talking about  
Deutschtown, or the old lower North Side, which is still pretty  
decent.    Probably the only "shanty" housing in my youth were  
several army barracks type buildings on the Federal Street Extension,  
probably put there in World War II and I imagine torn down in the  
1960s, that stood on the east side of Federal on the steepest part of  
the grade where the trolley was already on Perrysville Avenue.     
Charles and Perrysville was a very vibrant neighborhood business  
center in the 1950s and it isn't much of anything today.

On Apr 27, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> Of course a lot changed in Pittsburgh's north side since the days
>> when I used to walk from my Grandma's all the way down Perrysville
>> Avenue and Federal Street to downtown.
>
> I don't feel bad walking around the north side with a camera, though.
>
> I did a few hours ago. I'd never noticed the Deutschtown tile mural  
> along
> Cedar before.
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