[PRCo] Re: Ancient and Not-So-Ancient

[John Swindler]

That brings back memories.  I also took a summer class at Buhl Planetarium for couple summers around 1960.  Rode the 64 into Oakland and transferred to the 77/54.  Later, when parents moved to Mt. Lebanon, the easiest way to Point Park College was to ride the 41A from Sunset Hills via Pioneer Ave.  The preferred way, though, was a one mile walk east to Linden Grove or a one mile walk west to either Clearview or Dormont Jct.
 
Small world
 
John
 
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Ancient and Not-So-Ancient> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:00:30 -0500> From: George.Gray at gta.ga.gov> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > I rode the streetcar with my mother in the mid-1950s, but I it was> always PCC cars.> > Regular riding on my own started in 1958 when I took summer classes at> Buhl Planetarium. That just involved a transfer from the 38 or 39 to the> 22 Crosstown. I never ventured deeper into the North Side. > > After taking the streetcar to high school, I used it to go to Pitt until> all of the lines (39 and the Fifth Avenue routes 71, 73, 75, and 76)> were converted to bus in 1966-67. The reshuffling of the bus routes> when the 39 went away led to me meeting my future first wife on the 41A> Dormont-Sunset bus after it was routed along Pioneer Avenue in> Brookline. > > -----Original Message-----> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of> Schneider Fred> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:36 PM> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> Cc: Siebert Chick> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Models> > God I'm feeling old. He was going to being forced to ride 39 to high > school and I was out of the army, married and in college. Sorry > 'bout that sonny. It was a lifetime for both of us.> Difference is I can remember riding yellow cars on Perrysville > Avenue .... low speed ones in World War II and 5500s in the early > 1950s. I can also remember one hell of a fast ride on a 3750 coming > in from Castle Shannon in 1952. Yes, I also remember the double-end > low floor cars in Donora, Washington, on the Evergreen line, on the > Castle Shannon-Mount Lebanon shuttle and on Laketon Road.> > No, I cannot remember conductors or MU cars but I'm told that Chick > Siebert (who still lives in Camp Hill) claims to have ridden an M. U. > train of low-floor cars in East Liberty. Chick is also the last > person I know who rode the Harmony interurbans. He has to be the > last link with the ice age.> > On Jan 2, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Gray, George wrote:> > > I lived in a part of Brookline where it was about the same length (7> > minute) walk to the 38 Mt. Lebanon or 39 Brookline. I mostly took the> > 38 because it was quieter (some homework was often finished if I got a> > seat) until the repaving of West Liberty Avenue killed the 38. Then I> > always took the 39.> >> > -----Original Message-----> > From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org> > [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of> > Phillip Clark Campbell> > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:16 PM> > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Models> >> >>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Gray, George wrote:> >> >>>> >>> I wouldn't have known there was an earthquake in Lancaster> >>> otherwise.> >>> >>> >> Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:> >>> >>> >> Ah, see, I have Zephyr, Twitter and email for that.> >>> >>> > It is hardly earth shaking news is it (pun intended.)> > We can't keep up with all 'local' news can we.> > Earthquakes not unheard of in the east; in fact worst in> > U.S.A. was in Missouri and that is in the archives here.> > The MO fault apparently moves up past Chicago,> > into Canada, and heads back toward/into the U.S.A.> > somewhere over/thru the Great Lakes and maybe into> > NY and/or PA (I am not really interested in the exact> > geography of this fault.) The Lancaster quake could have> > been in our local paper but I don't read it every day.> >> > What line did you ride to South Hills High?> >> >> > Phil> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > 
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