More "Carbarn Sally" Pix on Dave's

[Carl Zager]

Robert,

You are right -- the Mayflower -- and its the second time someone has had
to refresh my memory about its name.

You've also given me a modeling hint. Sometimes we forget how often
buildings were multiple use in urban areas. We think of the strip mall or
shopping center as a "modern" phenomenon, but shared or leased space has
always been with us.

The Sixth/Penn corner of that building (before Heinz Hall) might even have
been a separate structure with a common exterior. I know the theatre did
not use that corner anywhere in the interior, except for a small office
off the lobby near the elevator shaft. I think there was at least one
other shop between the Mayflower and the Sixth Street main entrance. That
entrance led past the concession stand to the big marble staircase. The
lobby then opened up towards the Penn Avenue exit doors. The auditorium
itself stretched from Penn to the alley between Penn and Liberty and from
the lobby to an alley between Sixth and Seventh.

The modeling hint? Signs in second floor windows representing businesses
different from those on the street floor.

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Robert E. Rathke wrote:

> 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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 Carl Zager
 KB9RVB
 czager at bloomington.in.us
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