[PRCo] PRCo Historic Pittsburgh
Edward Skuchas
eskuchas at comcast.net
Sun Nov 24 21:45:55 EST 2013
There was not an identifier and it was from the Pgh Library. It did not look right for Pgh. THe building did it for me. Looks more like a chateau in its window details. I had been there. The coal/mining museum on the other end of town was interesting too.
Ed
On Nov 24, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yes, Ed. First problem is that the University of Pittsburgh library is a repository for stuff that isn't Pittsburgh. You have to open it to find out that it is Johnstown. I admit I fell into that trap. Then I realized I had stood there and been there.
>
> Looks south on Market Street down the left side of the picture and west along Washington St. on the lower axis.
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> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296541;subview=detail;resnum=192;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.118.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0068.TIF
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> On Nov 24, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Edward Skuchas wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296541;subview=detail;resnum=188;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.024.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0013.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296541;subview=detail;resnum=187;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.178.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0128.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296541;subview=detail;resnum=196;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.188.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0138.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296541;subview=detail;resnum=192;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.118.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0068.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296595;subview=detail;resnum=203;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.059.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0025.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296595;subview=detail;resnum=204;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.078.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0035.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296595;subview=detail;resnum=208;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.076.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0033.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296595;subview=detail;resnum=209;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.077.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0034.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296595;subview=detail;resnum=212;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.056.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0023.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296595;subview=detail;resnum=213;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.114.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0064.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=hpicasc_ci;med=1;q1=AIS.2009.05;size=20;c=hpicasc;back=back1385296595;subview=detail;resnum=220;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-200905.071.hf;viewid=20130821-HPICASC-0031.TIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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