[PRCo] Re: The Great November 24 1950 Snowfall

[Schneider Fred]

Don't remember a thing.   We moved out in August 1949 to Lancaster  
County into a rented house and by August 1950, when the lease  
expired, we were in a house on Delp Road north of Lancaster.    
Actually it was R D 8, Box 313.   Dad subdivided that lot in 1973 ...  
I am sitting only 50 feet from that house right now.

But my my mother's brother had less tan fond memories of that snow  
storm.   He moved from an apartment in the grandparent's home off  
Perrysville Avenue to his own new house in Cheswick as the storm was  
starting.   They got the moving van emptied but he claims the movers  
never made it back to Pittsburgh ... they ended up stuck in the snow  
somewhere between Cheswick and Pittsburgh.   For those who do not  
know the Allegheny Valley that well, in good weather, it is probably  
a 15 minute drive up the Allegheny Valley Expressway from the point  
where East Ohio Street turns into the expressway near Millvale to the  
Cheswick exit today, perhaps even less.


On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Jerry "Matt" Matsick wrote:

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> Thanks for sharing, any or all of us who were living in the Greater  
> Pittsburgh Area remember the "1950 Thanksgiving Snow Storm",    
> living at the very top of the hilll in  "Cement City" in Donora, I  
> can remember as a 10 year old going with my Dad and brother down  
> these narrow paths thru the snow which towered far above my head  
> and or even my Dad's head to get to the local grocery store, back  
> then most everyone depended on the
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> grocery story down on the corner for their "daily" staples, only to  
> find they were "sold out" of most everything,
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> but we survived, eventually we hiked down the hill  to Donora's  
> First Street and Mckean Avenue only to find the local street car  
> line wasn't operating, (street was covered with snow) but a local  
> store there had "bread" and Milk, and we trecked back up the hill  
> to our home.   Yes I remember the Great Snow Storm!
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> Jerry M
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> From: "Matthew R Barry" <mrb190 at pitt.edu>
> To: "pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org" <pittsburgh- 
> railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:54:09 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada  
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> Subject: [PRCo] The Great November 24 1950 Snowfall
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> Here's a "story-telling" memory about the 1950 Thanksgiving  Snow  
> Storm, from today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
> Matt
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