Transitions

Today is the beginning of a new blog adventure! My family history/experience blog was inactive for quite a while and when attempting to refurbish it last week I discovered it was gone! Bummer! The goal was to transition both blogs into one and move forward with a more balanced approach to recording current as well as past experiences.

Since this is more or less a new beginning where better to start than Pittsburgh! Yes, my hometown in western Pennsylvania. The photo above depicts the downtown area the way it looked when I was born at Mercy Hospital. Looks like a pretty typical Pittsburgh night to me!

The photo was selected because at the time of my birth, my father was the pilot of the type of streetcar in that downtown scene. It was just a couple of years since he'd returned from WWII and he went to work for the transportation department. Honestly, I don't have great recollection of these times (I was an infant after all) but I do remember he quit that job and we moved to California after he was robbed and mugged one night while stopping to let passengers off the streetcar!

While only my early years were spent there, Pittsburgh has always been and will always be home!