[PRCo] Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings to all
Enuf is enuf.....Santa with his bag of toys is more comfortable
on the long seat than on a cross seat.

A question..with the dust, why did Pgh first use a mohair seat?
5th Ave coach in NY used it but their sub, New York City Omnibus did not.

I remember my first visit to Pgh in the late 40's staying at the Hotel Henry
downtown.  dark all day.

About other Pgh hotels in that era....Fort Pitt Hotel at 10th & Penn, the
Roosevelt Hotel at 6th & Penn (building still there) and the Pittsburgh 
Hotel
on Forbes (building still there),. Carlton House on Grant St  (and apt 
house)

Also in Oakland...Schenley Hotel (now Pitt) and another hotel on 5th toward
Craig..I forget the name.  I guess its still there).   Dont remember any 
major
hotel on North or South Sides or East Liberty.  I did stay at a modern small
hotel in Wilkinsburg on Penn Ave (Penn-Lincoln).  That was a much different
Wilkinsburg.

Also the short lived down the hill side hotel at the top of the Mon Incline!

Enuf history.   Merry Christmas tio all.

Harold Geissenheimer


Fred Schneider wrote:

>Right ... with red and orange and black dirt from the steel mills on top of
>newly fallen snow?   And ashes on the streets?
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>I remember my Grandma Rebele's admonishment not to take of my shoes and walk
>barefoot on her carpet.  I would get my feet filty and that was not to go on the
>sheets.  The carpet was filled with the dirt from the streets.
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>And then there was the day that Norm Vutz went off to college in Pittsburgh ...
>he had done some body work on his car.  The old pink color on the 1948 Ford
>(hey, it was classy) disappeared under fresh gray primer.  He said the primer
>had a special name ...........
>Pittsburgh White.
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>And there is a great picture of me taking my earliest steps in the front yard
>... toddling along next to Mom.  Judging by the foliage, it was spring or summer
>1941.  The house behind me had built in 1937.  And by the time the picture was
>taken, none of the white trim was still white.  It was gray.   Dad once remarked
>that he spent the first week of every vacation painting the house.  Then he
>could go away.
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>And you want to go there and get a good dose of that in your lungs?
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>The grass isn't always greener in the other guy's pasture.
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>Boris Cefer wrote:
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>>Can you make the time flow back? I'd like to spend such winter with PCCs in
>>Pittsburgh!
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