[PRCo] Re: PRCo Evergreen

[Fred Schneider]

Ray,

I don't propose to be a know it all.   My grandparents lived at 3462 Delaware Avenue, which was one block off Perrysville at the Venture Street carstop.   My mother's brother moved up to Cheswick the very day that monster snowstorm hit in 1951 (the moving van was emptied but didn't get back to Pittsburgh for several days).   OK ... now put this into perspective.   We live in the other end of the state.   We go home to Pittsburgh to visit Grandma and Grandpa.

Now my mom wants to visit her brother.   My father, who had lived in the Pittsburgh area from 1929 until 1949 isn't dumb.   He isn't going to drive into the lower north side and then up the river.   Too many traffic lights.   

You drive down Venture to East and out East to Evergreen and over the hilltop to Millvale and then  up the river ... saves a few minutes.   (Because of that route I also remember the aging 3700s and 3800s sitting in Millvale Yard awaiting scrapping after PCCs went into service on the interubans.)

But in the process many times I saw the yellow car waiting at the end of the 12 line.   Then when we went out for Grandpa's funeral in December 1953, there were two double end Jones cars at Keating Car House.   Route 12 had just been replaced with a Manchester - Evergreen bus.   

I also remember details like the Laketon Road car because we lived in Penn Township.  

But don't expect me to understand Ingram or Sewickley or Carnegie.   

Some places you look at and the mind instantly says, I know where that is.   Other things ... duh.   I just drove up Evergreen Road and turned there so many times that it was imprinted.   

Fred



On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:57 PM, rayprco53 at verizon.net wrote:

> Thanks a bunch.  
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> Hello. Found this picture at Historic Pittsburgh web site.
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> End of Route 12 Evergreen? I can not line this up with
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