[PRCo] Re: Verona Road at Frankstown 1936

[Derrick Brashear]

P-g says it opened on Labor Day, 1929. i'll share urls later

Derrick


On May 31, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
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