[PRCo] Re: Hotels

[Fred Schneider]

My sister was fond of the Sherwyn because it was cheap back in the 1960s.  She
was going to Carnegie Mellon and her husband was in Lancaster ... they convened
every other Friday in the Sherwyn.  I stayed there once myself ... they had
sold it to the college and it was basically closed except for the remaining
reservation list.  With all the empty rooms, we were given a suite for
something like $12 a night.  Yes, don't you wish...

Bob Rathke wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >