[PRCo] Regional population numbers

[Fred Schneider]

More to follow, Ed.  

I am massaging them into groups of boroughs and municipalities according to the census in which the population peaked.   Preliminary gut reaction is that some of the mill towns where PRC hauled its heaviest loads began collapsing in the 1920s.  The city and most of the older towns began to crash in the 1950s.   Even the older suburbs were heading down in the 1970s.   It tells me that the PAT management may have had a guy at the help that St. Louis was happy to get rid of but what he did in Pittsburgh had to be done.

This all started because of a certain picture an old friend provided showing Turtle Creek in 1964 and we then discovered what it looked like today.   Turtle Creek was one of those towns that peaked in 1930.   But the population in adjacent East Pittsburgh on one side and Wilmerding and Pitcairn on the other all peaked in the 1920 census.   If we had not had a World War in the early 1940s, I can only question if 87 Ardmore and 62 Trafford would have lasted after the mid 1940s.


On Nov 19, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> This is a wonderful addition to the Reference Department.  Gracias.
> 
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> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 7:38 PM
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion
> Subject: [PRCo] Regional population numbers
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> This pdf file . 30 some pages long might interest a couple of yins.   Shows
> what happened to populations in the various boroughs, cities, townships and
> municipalities in southwestern Pennsylvania over the last 80 years.   
> 
> Sad thing is that most of the places the trolleys ran (or even run) have
> lost population . even Mount Lebanon, Dormont, Castle Shannon and Bethel
> Park.    Even Upper St. Clair Township.    I guess a lot of the kids have
> moved to Dallas, Phoenix of Portland in search of work.
> 
> 
> http://www.spcregion.org/pdf/RegPop/Census%20munic%20pop%20decennial%201930-
> 2010,%20SPC%20region.pdf
> 
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