[PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh

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You must look past the first entries in the album Mr.Schneider.  You 'say' the economy peaked in 1920 for Johnstown.
This does not mean it died overnight like pulling the plug to drain a bathtub.  Life and vitality goes on.  1920 is a technical
figure for economists isn't it--a talking point with little application at the street level.  These pictures are the 1920s into the
1930s revealing life and vibrancy unlike the 1950s which had felt the ravages of the depression, WW2, and the steel decline which followed.
Hardly an overnight sucking dry the health of the city is it.

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These present an interesting picture of Johnstown with some life left in it.  Please spare us an assessment of each picture, overbuilt // underbilt.  Hindsight is claimed to be
perfect isn't it, but "only" because facts are then "allegedly" known.

Please, get comfortable with The Administration, not to their benefit, but to the benefit of the American People.  Give them the benefit of your knowledge and experience
to get the country out of the current quagmire.  Talk here is meaningless.

Why are you so sad and negative Mr.Schneider?  Americans are the worst people in the world as is the nation itself.  Nothing is right about the economy, nothing is right about transit,
nothing is right about Pgh., nothing is right about Lancaster, and the list goes on and on and on doesn't it.  One of the facts of life dad never mentions is this:  When a person offers
observations about a topic, most especially when unsolicited, that person is describing himself more than the topic isn't he.

Please: no private emails Mr.Schneider.


Pc



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On Sat, 11/23/13, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh
 To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
 Date: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 5:09 PM
 
 
 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.