[PRCo] Re: PRCo Evergreen

[ArtS32 at aol.com]

Fred To keep you straight the big snow was in 1950 the Friday after  
Thanksgiving.
 
Art Swartz
 
 
In a message dated 9/5/2011 1:23:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fwschneider at comcast.net writes:
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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