[PRCo] Re: PRCo Evergreen

[Fred Schneider]

Yins correct.


On Sep 5, 2011, at 5:37 PM, ArtS32 at aol.com wrote:

> Fred To keep you straight the big snow was in 1950 the Friday after  
> Thanksgiving.
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> Art Swartz
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> In a message dated 9/5/2011 1:23:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> fwschneider at comcast.net writes:
> Ray,
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> 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.
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> 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.  
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> 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.)
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> 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.   
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> I also remember details like the Laketon  Road car because we lived in Penn 
> Township.  
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> But don't expect me  to understand Ingram or Sewickley or Carnegie.   
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> 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.    
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> Fred
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> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:57 PM, rayprco53 at verizon.net  wrote:
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>> Thanks a bunch.  
>> ------Original  Message------
>> From: Ray
>> Sender:  pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>> To: PRCo
>> ReplyTo: PRCo
>> Subject: [PRCo] PRCo Evergreen
>> Sent: Sep 5, 2011  12:20 PM
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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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>> google maps. Can someone help me?
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>> Thanks
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>> Ray 
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