Pittsburgh Railways Co. Homemade Property Passes

[HRBran99 at aol.com]

In a message dated 06/25/2000 4:02:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
SaturnV at webtv.net writes:

<< I lived on the edge by trespassing, jumping onto and out of private
 property to squeeze off shots, and running like hell when the yard Super
 came hustling toward me swinging his fist in the air and yelling
 obsenities. >>

I suppose, since the statute of limitations has well passed, I can tell this 
now. A friend and myself made several trips to Pittsburgh from Cleveland in 
1960 through 1963. PRCo was still in business. On the first trip we wrote to 
PRCo. and asked about visiting car houses to take photographs. PRCo. 
responded, saying that would be fine, just stop by 121 Seventh Street and 
pick up a "property pass." This we did and went to SHJ to take photos. We 
noticed that the 'property pass' was nothing more than a mimeographed (the 
copying process before Xerox machines) 8.5 x 11. piece of paper typewritten 
in Pica type. My friend had a typewriter with pica font and access to a 
mimeograph machine. The first time we used our forged property passes we 
decided on Craft Avenue car house. Sure enough, we were approached by a PRCo. 
employee asking why we were on the property. We produced the forged passes 
and he bought it! Never again did we have to write to PRCo. for a property 
pass.

HrB