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<DIV><FONT size=4>Bob</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>You are probably correct. Referencing my earlier memo on
the subject, it was called locally Water Street for some time after that, but
that was no doubt just an unofficial carryover. Folks (including myself)
tend to resist change when it is done for no apparent good reason, but just for
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=bobrathke@comcast.net
href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net">Bob Rathke</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 13 November, 2013 10:35</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] When Did Water Street Become Ft. Pitt
Blvd.?</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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B&O (and other railroads) didn't want passengers to get lost looking for a
railroad station on a street with a name that no longer existed, so its
timetables were frequently updated, even the appendix section. I checked
my B&O timetables and found that in the 4/26/53 issue the Pittsburgh station
was identified as being at Smithfield St. and Water St., while in the 9/27/53
timetable the station was shown at Smithfield St. and Ft. Pitt Blvd. My
guess is that the Ft. Blvd. street signs replaced the Water St. signs in the
summer of 1953. <BR> <BR>I have a Gulf Oil map of Pittsburgh from 1952. I
can't find it now, but I remember that the street at Wharf level (now the
westbound lanes of the Parkway) west of Smithfield St. was identified as the
"Depressed Roadway". Reconstruction of the wharf roadway started in 1957 after
the old B&O station was demolished, and I believe it opened to westbound
Parkway traffic in 1959 when the Ft. Pitt Bridge was completed. <BR>
<BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR><BR>From: "Edward H. Lybarger"
<trams2@comcast.net> <BR>To: "Western PA Trolley discussion"
<pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org> <BR>Sent: Wednesday, November
13, 2013 8:42:23 AM <BR>Subject: [PRCo] When Did Water Street Become Ft. Pitt
Blvd.? <BR><BR>A question has come up regarding the renaming of Water Street,
which was <BR>rebuilt in 1940 to approximately its present configuration.
A local website <BR>suggests that the name changed then, yet shows the
dedication plaque which <BR>does not include the new name. Maps from the
late 1940s continue to show it <BR>as Water Street. <BR><BR> <BR><BR>Is
there a volunteer among the list who would research this in the Google
<BR>newspaper archives? My own sense is that the Fort Pitt Blvd. name
became <BR>official in the 1950s, but I am unwilling to wager any amount on
this! <BR><BR> <BR><BR>Thanks, <BR><BR>Ed
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