[PRCo] Re: 23-14

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Schneider Fred wrote:

> I wasn't sure who was going to post the first response but even I
> watched the game!!!!!!!

Saw fireworks on TV. Waited a few seconds. Heard fireworks out the window. 
Weird.

A few minutes later, drove back down the hill on 18th St, and then snuck 
back along Josephine to the lot where I leave my car. While walking 
through the adjacent empty lot I could hear the horns along East Carson, 2 
blocks away.

Sounded like Times Square at rush hour.

When I was sitting in this same window Friday afternoon, PGH DPW came by 
and threw sawhorses to barricade the street out at every intersection. 
They're gone now. Guess that was why. For the partyers.

The former Birmingham Borough section of the South Side features a 
narrower stretch of East Carson than further east in former East 
Birmingham (from 17th St east). Notes I read in the South Side Library's 
local history file Saturday suggest we can thank the Ormsby heirs for 
contributing to street width as the newer areas were laid out. Anyway, I 
guess buses could be moved south to Sarah for eastbounds, and north to 
Muriel for westbounds, otherwise, they'd just be stuck. The 50 and 53 
would have just been stuck. I'd guess the 77/54 probably would be fine, 
since I assume some path from 18th to the Birmingham Bridge was kept 
passable.

I haven't ventured out into such a mob yet, despite the easy chance to do 
so.