[PRCo] Re: Photo Spots

[Carl Zager]

Bennett was just a hop-skip from the Homewood carbarn. Right?


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Kenneth Josephson wrote:

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> 
> 
> "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
> 
> >  ... the
> > favored location for many years for roster record pictures was on North
> > Braddock smack dab in the middle of the Bennet Street intersection.
> > Bennet Street was old PA route 80 into Penn Hills, today I think its
> > called 380.  They used that location right up through PCC 100 in the
> > summer of 1936!
> 
> Milwaukee used to set streetcars, interurbans and other assorted pieces of
> freshly built or outshopped equipment right in the middle 38th and McKinley
> to take photos. Not a major intersection for auto traffic, but with Miller
> Brewery, Harley-Davidson and other assorted industries nearby, this must
> have occasionally raised heck with truck traffic.
> 
> In either case, it would be no different than the power company or water
> district shutting down sections of roadway to perform various tasks today.
> 
> Ken J.
> 
> 

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