[PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

Interesting item in the 100 Years Ago Column in the Lancaster New Era  
this evening:
"NEW HIGHWAY: In a speech before the Pennsylvania State Bar  
Association, Governor Edwin S. Stuart called for the construction of  
a highway between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.  'The project I have  
in mind,' the governor declared, 'is to survey the old State Road,  
rebuild and improve it ..'  Such a modern highway, he added, 'would  
bring a continuous stream of tourists from the Far West and West  
through Pennsylvania territory  and would tend o open up many new  
avenues,' encouraging real estate development and strengthening the  
economies of smaller cities.  Lancaster New Eta, June 26, 1908.

Twelve years later (1920) Pennsylvania had 500,000 registered motor  
vehicles, which represented about 1 for every 4 families.

Twenty-two years (1930) later we had 1.5 million titled trucks and  
cars.  By 1930 three out of every four families, on average, had one.

And by 1949 the auto makers were advertising to women because they  
were unable to sell any more cars to men.  They had saturated that  
market!

And you wondered where the trolley went?