Advertising Cars

[brathke at juno.com]

The Mohawk Airlines car could have been done with gold foil.  It was
painted mostly black and white; the gold areas were large, but were
horizontal bands below the window line and below the floor line area. 
There were no words or numbers within the gold areas.  The 21-Fineview
photo I have of this car (1664) was taken by Bill Gwinn on Lanark St. on
8/27/61.  The motorman is sitting sideways, facing the closed front
doors, which suggests that it was a photo stop.

I just did a quick check of SOME of my photos of the Chryster cars, and
here's what I found:

1635 - 42/38, 10-13-63
1678 - 15, 12-22-63
1623 - 44, 6-9-64
1556 - 77/54, 10-20-63

NONE of these 5 cars were on 22-Crosstown. 

Also came across an obscure ad car that I totally forgot existed - 1548
(14-Avalon), painted for Shoemaker Bros. Heating Co.  Photographed on
12-22-63.

Bob 7/17

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:37:45 EDT "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
writes:
> Are you sure the "Mohawk Car" was painted with gold paint?
> 
> Or was it a gold foil???  (very vague recollection of comment heard 
> more 
> years ago then care to remember).  And yes, car was used for a PRMA 
> fantrip.
> 
> And which Chrysler car was on the Second Ave. routes.  There were 
> about nine 
> of them.  (just to trip-up those who want to assign the Chrysler 
> painted 
> "car" to a single barn)
> 
> John S.
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
> >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >Subject: RE: Advertising Cars
> >Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:58:26 -0400
> >
> >Mohawk Airlines was originally Robinson Airlines.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> >brathke at juno.com
> >Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 9:33 AM
> >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >Subject: Re: Advertising Cars
> >
> >
> >I took some photos of the Hillside Dodge car on the 85 line, and 
> believe
> >it also ran in the South Hills.  Most of the ad cars ran on 22, but 
> in
> >the early 60s they started to appear on other lines, possbily at 
> the
> >request of the advertiser, especially if the advertised company was 
> on or
> >near those lines.
> >
> >The 1964 Chrysler car was often on the 2nd Avenue lines.   In 1963, 
> the
> >Ivory Towers car ran on 8-Perrysville.  Ivory Towers was the name 
> of a
> >home subdivision just across U.S. Route 19, south of Keating 
> carbarn, and
> >the car's paint job read, "This car to Ivory Towers."
> >
> >I have a photo of the Mohawk Airlines car on 21-Fineview, but it 
> might
> >have been a fantrip.  Mohawk Airlines (originally called Richardson
> >Airlines) merged into Allegheny Airlines (originally called All 
> American
> >Airlines), and is US Airways today.  There's a photo of this car on 
> page
> >12 in Harold Smith's book, but the caption gives incorrect color
> >information - the car was actually painted metallic gold and gloss 
> black
> >(not blue).
> >
> >Bob 7/17
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:44:54 +0000 Kenneth and Tracie Josephson
> ><kjosephson at sprintmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > I just sealed an envelope with some images for Jim Holland. One 
> of
> > > them shows
> > > the 1400 painted for Hillside Dodge. The car is clearly signed 
> for
> > > Route 55.
> > > I keep hearing these cars were restricted to Route 22. So did
> > > advertising
> > > cars ever get assigned to other routes (besides the car 
> advertising
> > > the
> > > subdivision as shown in the "Touring" book?)
> > >
> > > I will be away from my computer and e-mail from July 18th 
> through
> > > the 26th.
> > > Ken J.
> > >
> >
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