[PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh

Sun Nov 24 15:58:12 EST 2013

ANswered my own question.  Had the direction wrong.  The building is now the flood museum.

Ed S
On Nov 24, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Edward Skuchas <eskuchas at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> *In Pittsburgh.............................A City AndAnd A State of Mind*
>> Let's Go Pens
>> Let's Go Steelers
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