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[brathke at juno.com]

Fred,

Thanks for confirming my 30-year search for that location.

In line with your, "That's It...Fort Pitt", I'll say, "Thanks...for using
Cruikshanks" (who out there remembers THAT line?) .

Bob 6/29

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:51:42 -0400 "Fred W. Schneider III"
<fschnei at supernet.com> writes:
> 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
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> >  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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> > 
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