Photos

[Fred W. Schneider III]

I was trying to remember the name of the complex ... Dorchester Apartments
... that's it.  Fort Pitt.
The bad part of that day was accidentally dropping a roll of film off the
street overpass at Hillcrest stop and then realizing days later that I had
forgotten to ferret it out of the weeds.

Remember that lovely barn owned by Taylor and Mary Cheesman (brother and
sister) that sat on the east side of route 19 where the car line ducked under
... down at Donaldson's Crossroads ... where the Golden Arches and the
cemetery are today.   I remembered it from trips to Ohio when I was 7 or 8 or
9 years old.  I doubt if the kids ever gave it a coat of paint, perhaps their
dad, Loyal Cheesman didn't either.  (Name dropping is fun isn't it.  Actually
I had neither the  idea who owned it nor that Cheesman stop was named after
the family.  Ed Lybarger grew up there.  Ed, his dad Sam, and I were
discussing the farm not six months ago.)  At any rate, you can imagine my
delight when I found that John Stern had taken time to stand on the bridge
with a camera about 1951.  It's in "Coast to Coast."

There was another good barn / trolley picture.  Remember Bob Brown's snap
near Hopwood of a West Penn Railways Fairchance car passing the Mail Pouch
barn?   I always wanted to paint a Mail Pouch sign on my back yard implement
shed (I guess because it would get my better half's attention).    I just
content myself with a backyard thermometer with Block Brothers advertising on
it ... "Treat yourself to the best.  Chew Mail Pouch."  Then two or three
years ago in Williamstown, West Virginia I found a backyard shed painted just
that way.   Wonder if Block Brother's knows about his abuse of their
trademark?????

brathke at juno.com wrote:

> When I lived in Bethel Park I tried to identify the location of that
> photo of 1712, but even as long ago as 1972 that area had been developed
> from farmland to residential and commercial.  I always suspected that the
> scene was somewhere north of Ft. Couch Rd., possibly by Donati Lane and
> the area where the Dorchester Apartments were built.
>
> Bob 6/29
>
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>
>  Another great "Fred shot" is featured in both "The Time of the Trolley"
> and "City
> > Trains." It shows
> > 1712, apparently at speed somewhere on the Drake Line under what
> > appears to be an
> > approaching thunderstorm. The area appeared so rural then.
>
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> On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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