<div dir="ltr">I remember him from the 1970s. Running the trolley on Grant Street I would see him but never had the time to fully read all the wording on the several signs he carried. In the 1970s who occupied the US Steel Tower on Grant Street? I thought US Steel moved all of their offices into 600 Grant Street after it opened in 1970. I know the old US Steel Building (on William Penn Place) was always referred to as the "Mellon Bank Building" or "old US Steel Building" back then. <br>
<br>Also, I always liked the 2400-series GM buses. They had a different style interior with double-seats on one side of the aisle and a long bench seat on the other side between the front and center doors. The rear end was a standard seating arrangement. There were also lots of upright stanchion bars throughout the whole interior. Their only drawback (and also the 2500-series) was the "skinny" steering wheel. I liked the "fat" steering wheels. You got a better grip and much better control with the heavier wheel.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Bob Rathke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net" target="_blank">bobrathke@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Bear with me on this post - there are a couple of PAT connections here that keep it on topic.<br>
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I took the attached photo on Fifth Ave. at Smithfield St. during lunch hour on 8/7/73. If you worked downtown in the 1970's you'll remember seeing this man carrying large signs on Fifth Ave. and around the U.S. Steel Bldg. which at that time was located at 525 Wm. Penn Place. He sometimes wore a bandage around his head, always walked continuously and never spoke to anyone. It was only after I took this photo and made a print that I was able to read all the words on the signs. It seems that he had a grievance with U.S. Steel and the United Steelworkers Union, but I never heard that the grievance was settled, and the man was no longer seen downtown after around 1980.<br>
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The PAT connection? One morning in 1974 I was riding the PATrain from McKeesport when this man boarded the train. It took him a while to store his signs and wooden poles behind the coach seats and then he was off to Pittsburgh for a day of silent protest.<br>
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The other PAT connection? PAT bus 2455 is on Smithfield St. in front of Kaufmann's.<br>
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