[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?

[Fred Schneider]

Got a point Ken.   One streetcar line in an alley in an all black  
neighborhood in St. Louis didn't have a chance, did it.   Seems to me  
that Hodiamont was the very last line in St. Louis.

On Aug 3, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> I do know for a fact that many, many people living along St. Louis'
> Hodiamont line raised a big fuss when that line was slated for  
> bustitution,
> but they did not have the political clout the people in  
> Philadelphia had
> twenty years later to keep the nearly empty Route 23 cars shuttling  
> past
> their homes for ambience.....heck, even that line has been  
> "suspended" since
> the early 1990s.
>
> I do know some people in the South Hills put up a good fight to  
> save the
> Library, Drake and Mount Lebanon lines.
>
> Remember, though, some of the loudest streetcar opponents were  
> motorists who
> didn't live in a particular car line's corridor, but drove through it,
> hating to drive on the tracks and getting "trapped" behind streetcars
> picking up passengers.
>
> I know a person who rode and wanted the 42/38 saved, but was happy  
> when the
> 53 was abandoned because he hating driving in traffic with streetcars.
>
> K.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry MATT Matsick" <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:16 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?
>
>
>> My question when PRCo/PAT decided to cut a street car line, did  
>> not the
>> people fuss about it?
>> I was in the Service during the 60s, if I had been in town I would  
>> have
>> tried to stop it, but was
>> it just the sign of the times?  I remember when the drop the  
>> Donora car? I
>> was just 11 but I was
>> upset.   Now cities are looking and the establishment of new RAIL  
>> LINES ,
>> I guess it is what
>> comes around goes around!    Groups thought?
>> Jerry Matsick
>> Former Donora/Pittsburgher (North Hills)
>>
>> --
>> Jerry "Matt" Matsick
>> You don't stop laughing because
>> you grow old. You grow old
>> because you stop laughing from the
>> River City by the sea!
>> Jacksonville, Florida!
>>
>> -------------- Original message from "Ken & Tracie"
>> <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>: --------------
>>
>>
>>> OFF TOPIC WARNING!
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Fred Schneider"
>>> To:
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 5:28 AM
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Greyhound crime
>>>
>>>
>>>> I love the choice of advertisements that go with it, Philip. Teen
>>>> teeth whiteners and high blood pressure medicines! They're a hoot.
>>>
>>> Back in 1981 or '82, some jerk in Waukesha, Wisconsin kidnapped his
>>> estranged wife (she lived across the street from me), murdered her,
>>> hacksawed her head from her body, dumped the body in a cornfield and
>>> burnt
>>> the head in his parents' wood burning stove.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I was listening to a news report about the case some months
>>> later.
>>> Immediately after the newscaster mentioned that the suspect had  
>>> sawed off
>>> his wife's head, they went to a commercial break. The commercial  
>>> was for
>>> a
>>> home improvement store and began with the sound of somebody  
>>> sawing. Then
>>> the
>>> music started with people cheerfully singing, "When you're  
>>> working at
>>> home,
>>> and you need a helping hand.............."
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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