[PRCo] Regent Square memories

Fred Schneider fwschneider at comcast.net
Sun Dec 8 15:22:47 EST 2013


At some point in time,  Braddock Avenue was straightened south of Allen Avenue and Allen was renamed Allenby and extended onto the old Braddock Avenue where the car tracks remain.

Plate 5 of the 1915 Hopkins map clarifies and can be compared with the current goggle map.   Go to the far northwest corner of this:

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?view=entry;cc=maps;entryid=x-20091022-hopkins-0007


On Dec 8, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> The writer is not doing the finest job of interpreting history in its own
> time, is he?
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> The paper must have been looking for filler.
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