[PRCo] Re: 22 Crosstown

[Schneider Fred]

One of the German speaking regiments.


On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:00 PM, John Swindler wrote:

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> Did he serve in a Union regiment in which commands were given in  
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> So much for memories of the North Side.
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>> On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>>> 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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>>> -- 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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