[PRCo] Re: Penn Pilot

[Fred Schneider]

I'm glad, Don, to see that someone is having fun with them.   Amazing  
photos aren't they?   The detail in the high resolution photos varies  
from place to place and day to day.  I have a 3 x 4 foot print of the  
photo over downtown Lancaster PA from Penn Pilot taken April 29,1940  
and it so bloody sharp that I can see every automobile and streetcar  
in a six square mile area.   And the photo to the west of where I  
live now is so sharp that when I look at the town of East Petersburg,  
I can see the two abandoned rails still in the street from one end of  
the borough to the other.  (I cannot see them in Paradise on US 30  
east of Lancaster ... the resolution just isn't good enough.)  But if  
I go to Penn Township, Allegheny County, and look at the photo taken  
in 1938 showing the house my dad built in 1938, I'm just lucky to see  
the house.

On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Donald Galt wrote:

> Interesting bit of time warp: on some of the 1939 Westmoreland  
> photos the
> unbuilt Penna Turnpike has been carefully pencilled in.
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> Don G
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