SaaSide Pitsburg

Living on the SaaSide in the 50s was truly an interesting experience. Life was lived from very different perspectives and memories viewed and filtered over the years from a given perspective. How did you see it?

I f you saw it the way I did, you could join the ranks of Catherine Carney Soul Mate or you could do much worse. Raymond linke is waiting for you in the wings.

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. What was the most frequent streetcar going up 18th Street?
Downtown
53 Carrick
88 Dormont
4. Where was the best sled riding on the SaaSide?
St. Joseph Way
Monastery St.
St. Thomas St.
5. What color was Mr. Rauber's new '57 Chevy?
Blue and White
Black and Gold (Stiller colors)
Chrome and Rust
6. Who were Baldy and The Great Rub?
Mrs. Zofcin's pets
Mike Ford's kids
Your Parents
7. Who were the most frequent visitors at 7 Monastery St.?
Large unruly waterbugs
Starved seminarians
Uncle Joe saying "I'd like to thank..."
8. What was Billy Martin's chosen profession?
Anti-nuclear energy activist
Quantum theory analyst
Toothpaste salesman
9. Why did the Pelc family not care for the McGonigle family?
Arny used to steal Margie's clothes so he could try them on
Johnny siphoned gas from their car
Mrs. McGonigle's cooking
10. What did one normally find in an ashtray in the morning at 7 Monastery St.?
Fingernail clippings
Cigar ashes
BelAir Menthol butts and gumdrops with the sugar sucked off them
11. What is the reason that four children might flee SaaSide Pitsburg?
Julitta's Sunday pot roast in a bag
The strap
The search for bodily hygiene
Fear of enormous crawling night critters
Fear of cultural and intellectual atrophy
All of the above
12. Which child at 7 Monastery St. sacrificed himself regularly to the anxst and frustration of the "Pater Familias" by not eating all of his supper so that the other children would get off scott free?
Jim
Mary Ann
Joe
Saint Bud
13. Why did Andrew J. spend most of his free time in the cellar?
He loved to "putter around"
He enjoyed the company of nails and wood
Julitta couldn't get to him!
All of the above
14. What was the only edible meal that Julitta ever concocted?
Stuffed pork chops
Halupkes
Ham and barley soup
All of ther above
15. With whom did the youngest child at 7 Monastery St. have a lascivious relationship that no one ever knew about until this moment?
Gloria Kocher
Margie Pelc
Lynn Demsky
16. Why did Joe join the army?
So that he could become just like his namesake and travel Carson St. offering ice cream to little girls
Christine Stiephater's paternity suit
The Pot Roast
All of the above
17. Why did Jim go to the Philippines?
To collect antique wooden bowls
As a stepping stone to travel the world
The Pot Roast
All of the above
18. Why did Mary Ann move to the West Coast?
Art didn't understand directions and therefore could never find her
Sunshine 365 a year
The Pot Roast
All of the above
19. Why was there an incline from SaaSide to Allentown?
I have no idea
I've always wondered that
I got no clue
All of the above
20. Was 7 Monastery St. as dysfunctional as remembered by all siblings or was it par for the course for the 1950 Catholic, working class homestead?
Very normal, not at all dysfunction
Normal most of the time
Crazier'n a bag full a bedbugs

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