[PRCo] Hotels

[Bob Rathke]

In the 1950's Rege Cordic used to say that he was broadcasting from the
Hotel Henry  (long after it was demolished).

The Sherwyn Hotel building is still on Wood St. - it became a dormitory for
Point Park College.

The Mt. Washington hotel was built in the mid-1960s, and it was still in
business in the early 70s.  Some of the architectural pieces from the Old
Post Office building on Smithfield St. were displayed outside the hotel.
The hotel was/is immediately east of the upper station of the Monongahela
Incline.  Its restaurant was called The Edge, and featured multi-level
dining rooms facing downtown.

Bob 12/23/03

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:57 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS


> 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.
>
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