[PRCo] Re: Verona Road at Frankstown 1936

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Schneider Fred wrote:

> What about the Miracle Mile in Monroeville or the shops on Rodi Road
> just off Frankstown?   They were built after we moved out in 1949.
> Monroeville was where you went on Sunday to milk from a farmer if you
> ran out.   The other option was the man who ran Stoner's Dairy on the
> hill between Coal Hollow Road and Lime Hollow Road.   Rodi Road?
> That's where the old Morrow School was ... one of those classic eight
> room yellow brick schools.   I went there for first and second grade.

Seems like Schwarzel's Dairy Store should have been on Rodi at the time; 
it has been around forever when I first remember seeing it a a kid. It 
lost in the Frankstown/Rodi/Jefferson/Universal project.

>
> Funny thing about growing up.   In your youth you tend to have tunnel
> vision.   I've spent a lot of money in my later years seeing all
> those places that I didn't want to see when my parents were dragging
> me around on family vacations because the trains and trolleys were
> all important then.

How many of those trains and trolleys are long gone?