The meaning of Library

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 brathke at juno.com wrote:

> In response to Ken's question about his caption on the Library car at
> Grant and Liberty...
> 
> I never HEARD anyone question the meaning of the name "Library" on the
> destination sign, but as a small child I recall WONDERING if that trolley
> went to the library.  No joke.

There was an old comic in (I think) the Pittsburgh Press (could it have
been Cy Hungerford? Or was he P-G? I guess I'm too much of a young-un)
where I think someone was inquiring at the door or a PCC marked Library,
and the operator said "you want the bookmobile!(*)"

-D
* - The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh as the regional library operates a
fleet of large rv-like vehicles which serve outlying areas which have no
library of their own or only a small one, one day every week or every
other week during some part of the day. The older ones bore at least some
resemblance to a bus. The newer ones look much more like a mobile home.