[PRCo] Re: McKeesport

Dennis F Cramer trombone at windstream.net
Mon May 16 07:05:45 EDT 2011


The music should be more "The Way We Were". I do not believe most of the 
viewers have the romanticized feelings the videographer had in mind, read 
the comments under the video, but some of it is the McKeesport I remember as 
a child. Luckily we got out of there in 1962.

McKeesport is like so many other mill towns, they began their decline in the 
1960's and have never made it back. Is the automobile and cheap gas to 
blame? We built suburbia and now wonder why mass transit cannot save us from 
higher fuel prices. We are still lucky in comparison to fuel prices in 
Europe.


          Dennis F. Cramer
http://home.windstream.net/dfc1






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