[PRCo] Re: Image 6310
Fred Schneider
fwschneider at comcast.net
Mon Feb 27 19:22:03 EST 2012
http://atu85.org/v2/images/IMG_6310.jpg
The second link is a map of the area that still shows Shady and Frankstown Avenues intersecting Penn Avenue just behind the camera.
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?view=entry;cc=maps;entryid=x-084e1938
Now if you go to Bing Maps, you will find that today the location has been totally changed. In order to provide an interchange for the East Busway and a new Penn Avenue bridge, Shady and Frankstown Avenues have been truncated. You can't get there from here anymore.
fws
On Feb 27, 2012, at 3:12 PM, George W. Gula wrote:
> This PCC is inbound on Penn Avenue on the bridge over the Pennsylvania RR.
> Shady Avenue is behind the photographer. The forested area in the background
> is the intersection on Penn and Fifth Avenues where the 76 crossed the 75.
> Today Reinsenstein School is to the right and a mall to the left.
> George Gula
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