[PRCo] Re: Verona Road at Frankstown 1936

[Barry, Matthew R]

Great memories!   Thank you for sharing!

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Schneider Fred
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:30 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Verona Road at Frankstown 1936

Correct.   Brain is at low energy state Art.



On May 28, 2009, at 7:43 PM, ArtS32 at aol.com wrote:

> I don't think it was Rosedale, I believe this was Eastwood.
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> Art Swartz
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> On May 26, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Barry, Matthew R  wrote:
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>> 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
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>> -- 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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