In my younger days (late 1950s or 1960s?) I recall Prospect as being a rather run down area, at least from the main street through the area on the way to downtown Johnstown and crossing the l-shaped bridge behind the Penn Traffic store and Bethlehem office building. I believe that even in those days the Prospect elementary school was empty (??? or else run down like the rest of the area). I also recall an accident where a freight truck lost its brakes and rolled over in Prospect, I believe killing several children that it rolled on. That incident always comes to mind when I hear Harry Chapin's song about 40,000 pounds of bananas. I left Johnstown in 1970 when I married and moved away, so except for brief visits to my parents' home after that, all of my memories are pre 1970. We often drove through Prospect returning from my grandparents home. Ellen ---------- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:49:21 -0400 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Prospect To: [email protected] , [email protected] Message-ID: < [email protected] > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At one time it was a place where the wealthy lived originally. Prospect is built on a hill above the city where steel executives lived above the smoke and stench of the growing steel industry in the valley. Dave