Today's Pgh Post Gazzette

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	The carfare for a local ride was probably between five and ten cents
which helps to put the real estate sale into perspective.  So that would
probably make for an extreme bottom price of $8-million.  Don't know how
the actual inflation price would compare - that may make the value of
the sale considerably more in todays dollars.

mrb190 wrote:

> Today's Pittsburgh Post Gazzette offers the following in the ALMANAC section:

> "On this date, fifty years ago, Thursday, July 6, 2000...
> Duquesne Gardens in Oakland and 57 other Pittsburgh Railways Co. properties were
> sold at federal auction for $800,000.   The buyer was Trinity Devlopment Co., a
> group of six Pittsburgh real estate investors."

> Matt

James B. Holland

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