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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Schneider Fred wrote:

> 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.

It was on the maps we were discussing last night

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