[PRCo] Re: Verona Road at Frankstown 1936

[Schneider Fred]

There was nothing in 1946-1949 between Frankstown Road and the point  
where the three roads split.    The newest thing in the area was an  
Ashland gas station on Frankstown at Coal Hollow which was immediate  
post war.

On May 31, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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?
>
>