[PRCo] Re: P-r-w, housing, cities, etc.

[Schneider Fred]

OK.   Remember George that I'm only prodding people into thinking.    
Not trying to say that I know everything.   Never realized until you  
said it now that South Hills High was the one right above the tunnel.

And I'm trying to get people to relate trolleys to their environment  
and to what they did.   They were created for only one purpose and  
that was to earn money for their investors.   Today the purpose is to  
help keep a politician in office (by showing how much money he doled  
out to the community).   In the process they provided jobs for people  
and moved the public to school, work, places of recreation, stores,  
churches and so forth.   They also offended by getting in the way of  
automobiles.

As an introduction:  I was born in the Pittsburgh area but I've lived  
in the east end of the state for 59 years.   I wander back and  
forth.   Only in 1957 and 1960 was I not in Pittsburgh at least once  
and now days I'm there for a few days every year ... sometimes  
working at the trolley museum, sometimes just popping in and out like  
the guy in the Jack in the Box.   You can probably put me down  
anywhere in the city or Allegheny County and I'll find something I  
recognize within a few blocks.  I can find my way around without a  
road map.  But if you asked me to name all the schools and where they  
are ... hang it up.    I know some areas much better than others ...  
the east end, South Hills, Northside.   I'm weakest in my knowledge  
of the West End, Emsworth, Ben Avon, the area out by the airport.


On Dec 11, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Gray, George wrote:

> South Hills High School had tuition students from Mount Lebanon and
> other suburbs until high schools were built out in those places.  The
> location above the streetcar tunnel made it relatively convenient.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> Derrick J Brashear
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:35 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: P-r-w, housing, cities, etc.
>
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Schneider Fred wrote:
>
>> It is possible or maybe even probable that South Side High School was
>> built in 1923 to serve some of the people on the other side of the
> hill.
>
> South Hills High School opened in 1916. I don't know how this factored
> in.
>
>> Considering where South Side H. S. was, could there have been a lot
>> of kids from places like Castle Shannon or Library or Bethel Park
>> coming in on the interurban to go to high school with tuition paid by
>> their sending school districts?    I have no clue how you could find
>> out.
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