[PRCo] More reading from Pittsburgh Press

[D Brashear]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I began reading local newspapers about 50 … maybe 51 … years ago hunting
> local trolley history.   It wasn't long before I realized that it wasn't
> just the trolley stuff I should be reading, but also the movie and
> amusement and industrial history too because that told me a lot about why
> people rode the cars.   Eventually I built up quite a file about local
> history in Lancaster.   Amazing when you make notes about when a certain
> building was erected or when the power lines were buried, how easy it is to
> date anonymous pictures.   Over the years I found I can't just pick up an
> old newspaper and read about trolleys.   I have to scan the whole thing.
> It can be fun.
>
> And here are some of the things that caught my eye while hunting stuff on
> Pittsburgh Railways.  It isn't necessarily about telling the search engine
> to find stuff about trolleys or street cars or streetcars or Pittsburgh
> Railways but just scanning the whole newspaper.
>
> Man contests right of way with trolley in Homestead; man loses.   Sadly he
> is too old for a Darwin Award….gets nothing for his efforts.   All kidding
> aside … Dixon St. appears to have been a relatively busy street.   Today it
> is protected by a traffic light.
>
>
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4495%2C637741
>

wonder which of my neighbors lives in that house now. if i walked to the
window i suppose i could find out.



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