More "Carbarn Sally" Pix on Dave's

[Robert E. Rathke]

I used to ride the buses and trolleys from Spring Hill to Duquesne
University, and spent many mornings at Sixth and Penn looking at that
theater corner while I waited for the 22 Crosstown trolley to arrive
southbound on Sixth Street.  At that time, the coffee shop in the corner
of the Loews Penn Building was the Mayflower, and the White-Haines
Optical Laboratory was on the second floor.  Funny how you remember old
signs.

Bob 9/24

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:08:05 -0500 (EST) Carl Zager
<czager at bloomington.in.us> writes:
>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/
>
>

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