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

[Richard Allman]

yes, my son, Steve as per Fred is a seminarian @ Pittsburgh Theological 
Seminary which he assures me is in Highland Park. He attends East Liberty 
Presbyterian Church, which he describes as a vibrant interracial 
congregation in a wonderful old building with stirring music which he highly 
recommends. And he is unequivocal: it's in East Liberty!
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From: "Joshua Dunfield" <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:27 AM
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>
> 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.
>
>