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Old 10-23-2007, 11:38 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by McNally View Post
I never realized how small Somerset is. Wikipedia said it had just under seven thousand people in 2000. I went to a freakishly large high school, but it had 2,400 kids. My high school times 3 might be able to take Somerset in a fight. Crazy.

I grew up in a small town in PA called Beaver. It's less than 100 miles from Sommerset. As of the 2000 census, the borough population was 4,775.

It's where they filmed Gung Ho starring Long Duck Dong and Wonder Boys and the upcoming Adventureland with Ryan Reynolds.

The population of the 70's and 80's was a lot higher, but when steel died, so did the town.

We left in 84. At the time, they were having talks about building new schools because it was getting crowded. In 86, they ended up merging a bunch of schools in the area.

The white parents were not happy. The town looked like segregation was still in full effect with the white part of town and the black part of town. Even the whites were somewhat separated into the Polish, the Italians and the Slavs.

When the steel companies pull the plug, everyone got dumped in together.
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