<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Another business I though had long bit the dust is alive and well on Brownsville Road. Just north (?) (toward South Side) of Maytide Street is a full-service Gulf Oil Station still with the Orange, Blue and White electric signs and gasoline pumps dispensing "Good Gulf" regular. I though they had gone out of business years ago. Also, just beside my apartment building is a storefront which used to be Bard's Dairy. Now it's a dentist office. The "Boron" Oil Company station inside Brentwood Loop is now a tax and accounting office. The loop is still busy with buses, however. Many times I see two or three buses sitting in the loop consuming recovery time just as the PCC's did. During AM peak periods the 51-Carrick buses sit in one lane and the 51L-Carrick via Tunnel buses sit in the second lane just as the PCC's did.<br>
<br></div>While so much has changed in Pittsburgh over the years, still, so very much as remained as it always was. This gives the city it's character............something other cities wish they had.<br><br></div>Attached is the "view from the veranda", or without embellishment, we're looking off the back porch toward a portion of Carrick/Brentwood. Bear in mind my apartment is on the 2nd floor on the Brownsville Rd side and on the 4th floor from the Lachman Way side. Definitely Pittsburgh.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Dwight Long <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwightlong@verizon.net" target="_blank">dwightlong@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Fred<br>
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Ad nauseam would be more what I felt like after "celebrating" at the Brass<br>
Rail and had to drive back to Indiana. Fortunately I had a co-driver.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Dwight<br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Fred Schneider" <<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>><br>
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion"<br>
<<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>><br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 2:15 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old<br>
andabandonedbuildings in Western Pa.<br>
<br>
<br>
Why did I know that, once started, this was going to go on ad infinitum?<br>
:<)<br>
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<br>
On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:<br>
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> Dwight,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> There was a Brass Rail on E. Ohio St. Did you skip the se cond half of<br>
> the "last trolley day" on 4/3 0/66?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> That night I rode the last 21-Fine view car out to Fineview and back to<br>
> downtown, then caught the last 6/14 trolley and rode out to Avalon and<br>
> back. I took the attached photo as a group of fans on Penn Ave. made<br>
> the dash to board 1799.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Bob<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
><br>
><br>
> From: "Dwight Long" <<a href="mailto:dwightlong@verizon.net">dwightlong@verizon.net</a>><br>
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion"<br>
> <<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 11:43:33 AM<br>
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old and<br>
> abandonedbuildings in Western Pa.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Bob<br>
><br>
> My last (somewhat faint) memory of the Brass Rail is consuming mass<br>
> quantities of beer in one of their outlets after I had ridden the last<br>
> ever Rt. 21 Fineview car,<br>
><br>
> Dwight<br>
><br>
> From: Bob Rathke<br>
> Sent: Monday, 08 April, 2013 12:23<br>
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion<br>
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old and<br>
> abandonedbuildings in Western Pa.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Fred,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> While you're remembering Fifth and Liberty Avenues, don't forget Frank &<br>
> Seder, Spear and May Stern department/furniture stores. Also 5&10's G.C.<br>
> Murphy and Grants; the Brass Rail and Bards (similar to Isaly's, but Bard<br>
> stores were in the neighborhoods, not downtown ).<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> My grandmother worked at Rosenbaums before she was married. The Rosenbaum<br>
> building was a solid structure , and it took months to dem olish it before<br>
> they could start building the parking garage that's on the site now. My<br>
> grandfather worked at Boggs & Buhl and was an office boy for R.H. Boggs,<br>
> but his family encouraged him to leave the store and learn a trade. The<br>
> R.H. Boggs home on the Mexican War Streets is now a B&B.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> My paternal great grandfather was fire engineer at the City of Allegheny<br>
> fire station No. 2 on Concord St. from 1868 to the early 1900's (see<br>
> attached photo). I also have a photo of him working in Johnstown after<br>
> the 1889 flood (I assume that Allegheny sent fireman to Johnstown to help<br>
> out). And I have copies of his Civil War records and pension.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> About the Brass Rail: the restaurants had a large (probably 5 'X10 ')<br>
> copy of a painting behi nd the bar. The painting depicted a 1930-style<br>
> bus, but the bus was five stories tall and looked like a cruise ship on<br>
> wheels. The title of the painting was, "A bus salesman's dream in 1960".<br>
> I wonder if that painting survived the restaurants.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Bob<br>
><br>
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> ----- Original Message -----<br>
><br>
><br>
> From: "Fred Schneider" <<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>><br>
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion"<br>
> <<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 10:43:23 AM<br>
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old and abandoned<br>
> buildings in Western Pa.<br>
><br>
> You know you are old, Bob, when someone asks "What's a McCrorys?" Think<br>
> of all those old store names that are no longer there. I will confine<br>
> myself to western Pennsylvania … Woolworths, Gimbels, Kaufmans, Joseph<br>
> Horne, Rosenbaums, Boggs and Buhl, Isalys.<br>
><br>
> Yup…. And you now have to be in your 40s to understand what communism<br>
> was like in eastern Europe. In a way, I guess I am rather glad that I<br>
> vacationed in East Germany before the wall came down and saw it. I<br>
> guess, as ugly as history can be, I guess it was also good for me that I<br>
> experienced the segregated southern states … black and white drinking<br>
> fountains, toilets, restaurants, etc.<br>
><br>
> Now, how the hell do I explain to my granddaughter and her husband, who is<br>
> of African descent, what it would have been like living in this country 60<br>
> or more years ago?<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Apr 4, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:<br>
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>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Here's a Facebook page containing photos of old and abondoned structures<br>
>> in Western Pa. It contains a few rail photos. I've posted some of my<br>
>> 1956-82 photos in the section for, "Recent posts by others".<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> See:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Abandoned-Old-Interesting-Places-Western-PA/237114536307967?sk=photos#!/pages/Abandoned-Old-Interesting-Places-Western-PA/237114536307967" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Abandoned-Old-Interesting-Places-Western-PA/237114536307967?sk=photos#!/pages/Abandoned-Old-Interesting-Places-Western-PA/237114536307967</a><br>
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