[PRCo] Re: 22 Crosstown

[Schneider Fred]

In December 1953 my maternal grandfather was apparently running  
downtown to catch a 8 car home and the stress caused a heart  
attack.   He got off at this corner, apparently because of Allegheny  
General Hospital being a block down the street.   He never made it.    
He collapsed here and the policeman came to tell my grandmother.   He  
only made it a few doors down to Aberly's Funeral Home.

His father, an immigrant from Germany who spoke limited English like  
most immigrants then and now, lived downtown on Virgin Alley (later  
renamed without widening it to Oliver Avnue).   When the trade for  
his tailor shop moved to the north side (norside?), he did to  
settling on Sandusky Street, behind the camera 2/3rds of a block, and  
then up the hill to the the right a half block.   House is still  
there across the street from the hospital.   He came here because he  
was sick and tired of fighting other people's wars and immediately  
wound up in our civil war as a condition of getting U. S. citizenship.

So much for memories of the North Side.

On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:

> Here is a pic from Historic Pittsburgh, dated August 1946, car 1464  
> on the 22 Crosstown route, North Avenue, just past Federal.
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