[PRCo] Traffic on Oakmont Avenue

[DF Cramer]

Several of us were there 2 years ago. Ed, John Swindler, John Polyak, Chick Seibert and myself made a trip out from uptown.
I zoomed in on the view to show the row homes. The large house in the original image is now a Rite-Aid.

Dennis F. Cramer 
http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/

> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:54:26 -0800
> From: wb3iqe at rocketmail.com
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Traffic on Oakmont Avenue
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/30/13, Barry, Matthew R <mrb190 at pitt.edu> wrote:
> 
> > This would appear to be the roadway below and parallel to
> > Allegheny River Blvd., with railroad tracks in the
> > middle.   I thought the Verona-Oakmont
> > carline ran on Allegheny River Blvd, but I am not sure.
> > Anyone know?
> 
> I didn't, but the Hopkins Real Estate Map at:
> 
> http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/browse.html
> 
> does. I've attached a snippet of the appropriate map, (Eastern Vicinity, 1915, plate 36) slightly annotated. Derrick's Magic Mail Mauler will store it away somewhere in the bowels of his machine, leaving behind a link to it.
> 
> The red circle with a couple lines radiating from it marks where I think the cameraman stood to take the picture. As can be seen on the map, the street visible in the photo is Oakmont Avenue. 
> 
> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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