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[Fred W. Schneider III]

That one I don't remember.  But I do remember the radio jingles for Dad's Old
Fashioned Root Beer.

brathke at juno.com wrote:

> 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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