[PRCo] Re: 22 Crosstown

[John Swindler]

Did he serve in a Union regiment in which commands were given in English, or one of the German speaking regiments?

 


 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 22 Crosstown 
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:47:59 -0500
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> 
> 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
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