[PRCo] Re: Verona Road at Frankstown 1936

[ArtS32 at aol.com]

I don't think it was Rosedale, I believe this was Eastwood.
 
Art Swartz
 
 
In a message dated 5/28/2009 6:25:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fwschneider at comcast.net writes:
Amazing.   Simply amazing.
I am sending this to my sister  as well.  She might enjoy clicking on  
the link which should  appear in red when she gets it.

We grew up in Penn Township, later Penn  Hills.   Well, I spent nine  
years there and she was there  for the first three and half years.    
She moved back and is  living off Penn Avenue above Wilkinsburg,  
perhaps no more than 2  miles from the location of the photo in the link.

I was born three  years after the Hulton - Oakmont - Verona -  
Wilkinsburg trolley line  was removed.   All that I can remember is  
remnant of the  line, i.e. Laketon Road shuttle.   I can vividly  
recall a  day in 1949 when my sister tried jumping off the foot board  
of my  parent's bed head first on to the floor instead the mattress.     
I spent several hours waiting in the car of a family friend parked   
outside a hospital or doctor's office in Wilkinsburg.   The  shuttle  
car went by many times and that was the day I remember  observing, at  
age 8, that Pittsburgh Low-Floor cars had arch bar  trucks.    My  
sister, by the way, did suffer a fractured  skull from her sky diving  
attempt and spent quite a bit of time in a  hospital that year.

But back to the picture below.   I don't  have a map here.   Was that  
neighborhood not known as  Rosedale?   I remember that there was a  
food store there,  perhaps a Krogers or an A&P where we did most of  
grocery  shopping.   It was situated on the south side of Frankstown   
just to the east of Verona.  I suspect that the photographer  was  
standing almost in front of the grocery store.    Sometime after World  
War II they offered a promotional gimmick that  I suspect management  
figured would not cost them anything.  If  you can bring in the cover  
from the first issue (vol. 1 no. 1) of  Life magazine, you will get a  
week's worth of groceries  free.   That was probably about a $5.00  
value at that  time.   Maybe a little more.   My father marched in   
with the magazine.

Does that suggest that being a pack rat runs in  the family?  The run  
of Life magazines was finally destroyed  about 1962.   I think it was  
helping to cause the center  of the house to sink and pull ends away  
from what was becoming a  free standing chimney.

Thanks Matt for forwarding it.

Fred  Schneider





On May 26, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Barry, Matthew R  wrote:

> I have only ever seen a photograph of a streetcar with a  VERONA  
> destination sign, and also, a photograph of the trestle  that once  
> crossed over Coal Hollow Road at Verona Road, but no  other pictures  
> that documented trackage somewhere on the  line.    Taken in 1936, I  
> imagine the cars were still  running over this trackage since the  
> line wasn't abandoned  until the following year - I think cutback to  
> Laketon  Road.   The photo is from the Historic Pittsburgh site, and   
> here is the description:
> Title: Atlantic White Flash
>  Date: October 6, 1936
> Creator: Pittsburgh City Photographer
>  Description: An Auto Shop and Barber Shop at the intersection of   
> Verona Road and Frankstown Avenue. Looking west from Verona  Road.
>
> Matt
>
>
> -- Attached file removed by  Ecartis and put at URL below --
> -- Type: image/jpeg
> -- Desc:  verona_frankstown_Oct1936.jpg
> -- Size: 64k (66521 bytes)
> --  URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/ 
>  verona_frankstown_Oct1936.jpg
>
>
>






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