[PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh

Sun Nov 24 15:51:43 EST 2013

About the fourth photo down is entitled Washington & Market streets.  WHere is that and what is the building on the next corner?  Is it still there?
Ed S
On Nov 24, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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