[PRCo] Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

> on Forbes (building still there),. Carlton House on Grant St  (and apt
> house)

Carlton House was imploded in the 80s.

> Also in Oakland...Schenley Hotel (now Pitt)

Their student union. They butchered it somewhat, not like the Syria
Mosque, thankfully.

> and another hotel on 5th toward Craig..I forget the name.  I guess its

The one that's Webster Hall now?

> 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.

Penn-Lincoln is boarded up now. My parents had their honeymoon there.

Certainly the whole area is different now than it was.