[PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh

[Fred Schneider]

I'm chuckling Phillip …

Not at you but at how easy it is to visualize a city as healthy when we didn't know it when it really was healthy.   Those pictures were taken in 1950-1953.   By 1953 it had lost about 10% of its peak population and that means about 10% of its peak employment.  

Johnstown peaked in the 1920 census.   It was one of those places like Braddock, Homestead and Sharpesburg.   

Of course, for those of us who remember it from the 1950s … ugh.   Today it is down 69% from its 1920 peak and 63% from the end of streetcars in 1960.   The local transit authority today hauls a whopping 3,100 riders on a typical weekday in 2013 …. surprisingly high for a city of its size.   

On Nov 23, 2013, at 12:48 PM, PC wrote:

> Thank You Mr.Lattner.  The Johnstown collection is excellent isn't it.  We tend to know the city in decline; here we see the vibrant, active, and apparently successful city.
> I do not see much in the way of trolleys but some photos include same.  This collection is an education itself isn't it.
> 
> The Pgh collection is redundant; it seems there are no end of photos at this time.
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> Pc
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> On Tue, 11/19/13, Lattner, Raymond <rlattner at pa.gov> wrote:
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> Subject: [PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion (pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org)" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 5:17 AM
> 
> FYI.
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> Railway Company Histories added to Historic Pittsburgh
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> http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/news/historic_pittsburgh/
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> Is any of this from PTM archives?
> 
> Ray
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