[PRCo] Re: River crossings

Fri Nov 20 16:29:50 EST 2009

And if it were circa 1917 ------- but as they (?) say, never let the facts get in the way of a good story.  

> From: bobrathke at comcast.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] River crossings
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:23:33 -0600
> 
> Fred,
> 
> One big difference between Germans crossing the Allegheny River in the 
> 1800's and people crossing the Rio Grande today....I suspect that most - 
> maybe all - of the people crossing the Allgeheny River were legal immigrants 
> who in the quest to improve their lives abided by the laws of the land.
> 
> Bob 11/18/09
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:05 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 22 Crosstown
> 
> 
> > Jeanne Cerra ... a German who married an Italian ... is my favorite
> > waitress at Max's Allegheny Tavern on the North Side ... good German
> > food. I've been going there since the 1980s. I remember when
> > Jeanne was pregnant. Last time I went in for dinner ... some time
> > in 2009 ... she game me a big hug and announced that the daughter she
> > had way back then is getting married.
> >
> > Well, Jeanne is also a fountain of knowledge about the North Side.
> > She and her husband live up on Troy Hill. She tells an interesting
> > story about how they had to lie about her grandfather's ancestry to
> > get him into the school on the North Side. Suspect it might have
> > been a parochial school but I never asked. The boy was German and
> > that was during the period when those terrible krauts were moving
> > from downtown and taking over what had been an English / Welsh area
> > in Allegheny. We look back now with favoritism on those Germans but
> > it wasn't quite that way when they first cross the river. Sort of
> > like the widest river the world ... you know ... like people who
> > speak Spanish crossing the Rio Grande.
> >
> >
> > On Nov 18, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
> >
> >> Great memories!
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> >> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Bob Rathke
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:06 PM
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 22 Crosstown
> >>
> >> I also relate the North Avenue trolley scene to medicine:
> >>
> >> In the 1940's, our family physician was was Dr. Berkowitz whose
> >> office was
> >> in the light facade building behind the black car in the photos. He
> >> was
> >> multi-specialty, making house calls for our childhood illnesses,
> >> being my
> >> dad's surgeon, and my mothers obstetrician. One day in 1947 I fell
> >> on a
> >> broken glass bottle at West View Park, and that evening was taken by a
> >> 10-West View trolley to Dr. Berkowitz's office to be stitched up (I
> >> still
> >> have the 3" scar on my right palm). He must have worked 18 hours a
> >> day.
> >>
> >> By the early 1960's Dr. Berkowitz retired, and his son - an
> >> ophthalmologist - took over his office space and performed eye
> >> exams for our
> >> family. Then, in the mid-60's that location became the office of
> >> our new
> >> family physician, Dr. Frank Santora, whose previous office was
> >> above the
> >> drug store on the northwest corner of North Avenue and Federal St.
> >> (the
> >> building seen above and behind the roll sign on 1464).
> >>
> >> From the 1880's through the 1920's my (maternal) great grandfather
> >> had a
> >> tailor shop on E. Ohio St. at James St. (I have his tailor shears
> >> and a wood
> >> coat hanger imprinted with his shop's name and address) . His
> >> oldest son
> >> also had a tailor shop on East St. near North Ave. that lasted
> >> until he
> >> passed on in 1953.
> >>
> >> And a couple of blocks east of there my (paternal) great
> >> grandfather was
> >> fire engineer for the City of Allegheny from 1859-1900.
> >>
> >> I have photos of them all.
> >>
> >> Bob 11/17/09
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> >> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 4:47 PM
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 22 Crosstown
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>>> Matt
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
> >>>> -- Type: image/jpeg
> >>>> -- Desc: crosstown_AUG1946.jpg
> >>>> -- Size: 77k (79367 bytes)
> >>>> -- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/
> >>>> crosstown_AUG1946.jpg
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 
> 
> 

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