More "Carbarn Sally" Pix on Dave's

[Carl Zager]

While we're thanking Ken and Dave for the new photos, I thought I might
jump in (despite promising to lurk) with this:
	http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/jpg/pitt467.jpg
	The PCC inbound on Penn, turning left on Sixth Street
	prompts these memories --
		The background building is the Roosevelt Hotel. For many
		years the Pittsburgh Steelers offices and headquarters
		were in the Sixth Street side of the hotel, just left
		and out of the picture. My mother was a desk clerk,
		stationed in the lobby accessible under the canopy in the
		top right corner.
		The corner visible bottom right is currently Heinz Hall.
		In our days (late 50's, early 60's) there was a restaurant
		in that corner of the Loew's (later United Artists) Penn
		Theatre. I worked for a time as an usher there -- black
		tuxedo in the winter, white dinner jacket in the summer.
		"Once the feature for which you are purchasing tickets has
		started, there will be no admission to the auditorium. The
		tickets you are currently purchasing may be used at the
		(time) showing later today. Thank you." _Psycho_
 
Thanks for the memories! I miss da Burgh.	


On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:
> Thanks Ken and Dave for the pictures.  A couple of them really struck home,
> literally.  Picture pitt537.jpg, the 1700 on 40 Mt. Washington, was taken
> across the street from where I grew up and pitt501.jpg was a block away.  So
> I have to ask; Do you have any more of that location, Southern Avenue at
> Natchez and Shiloh streets?  I am more interested in the buildings and
> surrounding area than in the trolleys because I'm ready to start building an
> East Penn module of the neighborhood.  I want to build it as the place
> appeared in the mid fifties, my impressionable years.
> 
> If anyone has any more pictures, with or without street cars, I will take
> them in any form.  

> Thanks.
> Bob
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Kenneth and Tracie Josephson [mailto:kjosephson at sprintmail.com] 
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 14, 1999 7:38 AM
> To:	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject:	More "Carbarn Sally" Pix on Dave's
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Dave has posted another eighteen Roberta Hill pix on his site under the
> "Ken Josephson Collection." I sent another forty two today. The latter
> batch (not up yet) features such oddities as a 1700 on Route 40, an
> interurban PCC holding down a night run on Route 39, a sequence of shots
> showing a motorman grappling with a defective trolley pole on a 1700,
> dewirements, shots from overpasses, high rises, snow shots, last runs on
> some lines (including Route 21), a group of passengers transfering to
> the car in front of theirs (a breakdown, perhaps?), interior shots,
> M-454 at South Hills Junction, etc.
> 
> I also put together a group of pictures depicting the following cars
> still in PRCo. and/or PAT service: M-200, M-551, M-283, M-210, 1467 &
> 1711. gee, what do all those cars have in common? ;-) 
> 
> There will be a photo study of M-210, Routes 21 & 40 and several views
> of Route 82. I also put together a carhouse and shop collection. There
> are shots of cars being *washed*! :-)
> 
> Hope you enjoy the pix when they are posted.
> 
> Ken J.
> 

 Carl Zager
 KB9RVB
 czager at bloomington.in.us
 http://www.mccsc.edu/~czager/