[PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh

Sun Nov 24 10:07:54 EST 2013

Thank you Phillip !

I guess I will refrain from going out to buy sackcloth and ashes to wear
here in what we were told is a dead Pittsburgh. Some people can just never
see the positive side of anything.

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:58 AM, PC <pcc_sr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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Herb Brannon

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