[PRCo] Re: (No In-Reply-To: <E28CF3F3-5419-4712-B1C1-0D2B59B4636D at comcast.net>

[Joshua Dunfield]

Fred Schneider wrote:
> I love that Derrick.   Fifteen years ago ... maybe even longer ... My  
> sisty ugler (her term) told me she wanted to take me out to this  
> wonderful restaurant she knew in Shadyside.  When we got there I had  
> to ask, "If this is Shadyside, how come I'm looking up at the steeple  
> of East Liberty Presbyterian Church?"   That long ago no body in the  
> restaurant business wanted to admit that they were actually in East  
> Liberty.    And Rich Allman's son is in the Presbyterian seminiary in  
> Pittsburgh and he lives in what I used to call East Liberty but he  
> calls it Highland Park.

I thought "Eastside" was supposed to be the (kind of silly) name for
a specific new development on the border of East Liberty and Shadyside,
which they got by combining "East-" and "-side".  Maybe it's progress
that *part* of the name admits to being in East Liberty.  The suburbanites
can pretend that "East" just refers to "East End".

I don't know how many restaurants would admit to being in East Liberty
today, besides Abay, where it would be a selling point.

> Why just pick on Pittsburgh.   That's not fair is it.   Here in  
> Lancaster we used to have streetcar routes and later bus lines that  
> were identified by the political wards they served: 7th Ward (and  
> later the Duke St. - 7th Ward bus), 6th Ward (and later the 6th Ward  
> - Laurel bus), and the 8th Ward - McCaskey bus.    Well, we no longer  
> have a 7th Ward bus.   We still have a bus that goes to through the  
> 7th Ward but now its called "Southeast Lancaster" because everybody  
> knows "The Ward" is such a horrible place.

Heh.  Sometimes I wonder if, eventually, half of Philadelphia will be
called Center City.

-j.