[PRCo] Re: Parental Modernization and Smithfield/Wood 2-way Operation

[tsquare at toad.net]

There's that old saying -- if you want the job done, give it to
a busy man.  Hope to see you before July ends.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Edward H. Lybarger
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:40 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Parental Modernization and Smithfield/Wood 2-way
Operation



Am I that noisy?!  Seriously, I'm in and out a lot.  The museum exhibit
concept design that Fred and I have been working on for 6-8 months is
essentially done, and a major project for the last remaining client is
finished, so I'm not hanging around the office as much.  And until last
weekend, I haven't had internet service at home since I got back from
California early in April (we still don't know what's wrong and there hasn't
been time to find out).  I finally rigged up an older machine to get
connected.  And I have to go out of town at least twice between now and late
June when I head to England for two weeks.

Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
tsquare at toad.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:32 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Parental Modernization and Smithfield/Wood 2-way
Operation



So that's where you have been!  I wondered why the group was so quiet.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Edward H. Lybarger
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:46 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Parental Modernization and Smithfield/Wood 2-way
Operation



I've been experiencing a kind of opposite problem.  In cleaning out the
attic (in order that I will have more room to store my own stuff), I came
across 69 years of income tax returns and 67 years of cancelled checks.
Junk, you say, and the vast majority of it is.  But it also shows prices and
expenditure patterns through the years.  In addition, most receipts (for
anything) since the mid-50s were there, including all those card stock
gasoline charge tickets with the holes punched in them.  Why save them?
Because the gasoline tax was deductible!  The most telling stuff was the
service orders on automobiles (as well as the original invoices).  I like
50s cars, but let's not confuse them with quality products...the repair
orders are there to substantiate that claim in several instances!  A '57
Cadillac was a particularly trashy assemblage of parts, though it would go
like hell when instructed to do so (it didn't even have power windows or
seats), but you couldn't keep mufflers (there were 4) or brakes on it very
long.

The shredder I recently purchased got a good workout, though some of the
stuff got saved.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
HRBran99 at aol.com
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:32 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Parental Modernization and Smithfield/Wood 2-way
Operation


In a message dated 5/21/01 4:03:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
fschnei at supernet.com writes:


> Dad had a 1930 street map of Pittsburgh (which he later destroyed and I
> saw priced second hand at several hundred clams) that showed
>

Isn't is odd that our parents and grandparents thought that in order to
'modernize' one had to destroy all things that were over five years old! I
had the same problem with a 1939 Cleveland Railway map. I just replaced it
several months ago for nearly $50. Of course the first copy, destroyed by my
grandmother during a spring cleaning binge, was given to me.

Does anyone know during what years Smithfield and Wood had two-way trolley
operation. The question came up in a recent discussion here in Cleveland.

HrB