[PRCo] Re: An old story

[Kenneth Josephson]

JOECREA at aol.com wrote:

> Hi guys-
> Thought you might enjoy an old story, from when I was a teenager in
> Pittsburgh, about 1960.  I was dating this girl (yeah, we were going steady,
> she wearing my ring on a chain and the whole thing).  I decided to take her
> to the top of Mt. Washington for the view.  I hadn't been driving long, and
> we took my Dad's new car--a 1960 Chevy.  Now this Chevy was unusually ugly,
> and unusually wide....

I have a couple of those ugly & wide Chevys, both a '59 & a '60. So how did you
break in? Did you force the vent window or simply break the glass? I have several
photos (including at least one on Dave's) of similar situations....a couple of
motormen blowing cars horns through the cars' open windows to attract the owners'
attention, one of a motorman impatiently waiting as two men struggle to start a
stalled '59 Olds, a Route 40 car squeezing past a '59 Plymouth wagon (I also have
one of those, which I drive all the time...we don't have to contend with road
salt here in Southern Nevada.)

I remember riding with a Route 49 motorman who was tired of stopping at the same
spot for the same illegally parked Ford pick up truck with a door mirror that
blocked the streetcar's path. After he had to push the mirror against the truck's
door several days in a row to pass, he finally braced himself in the stairwell of
his 1600 and kicked the mirror off the brackets! He then shoved the brackets
against the door with his foot. I was the only pasasenger onboard when that
happened. He trusted me to keep quiet (which I did) and we both had a good laugh.