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[brathke at juno.com]

Fred,

Okay, if you don't remember it, no one on this list will.  Cruikshanks
was a jelly and jam manufacturer on the North Side of Pittsburgh.  Their
slogan was, "Thanks, (and then a few words to rhyme with) Cruikshanks." 
Their plant was on E. Ohio St., just east of the H.J. Heinz plant, near a
stop on the Etna and Millvale trolley lines.  Their building  (and name)
was still there into the 70s, long after routes 2 and 3 were gone.

Bob 6/29

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:00:17 -0400 "Fred W. Schneider III"
<fschnei at supernet.com> writes:
> 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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> > > > On the other hand, you have different fingers.
> > > >
> > > 
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