[PRCo] Re: Latrobe

[robert netzlof]

--- robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com> wrote and screwed up as he
did so, saying:
> The large dark-colored building is the former Fullman Mfg Co.
> plant.

That part's OK.

> There may be a car house in the picture. The roof end visible
> directly above the police car, above the smaller bulding with the
> several garage doors, may be the old circa 1900 car house.

And that's OK.

> Once upon a time, there was no curb on the far side of the street,
> the area between the street and the front of the building was paved
> with brick, and one could either see rails or the places where
> rails had been in the brick. But that was fifty years ago or so.
> As I recall it was not possible to trace the rails all the way
> to the front of the building, which opens the possibility that the
> building was not the car house but rather a replacement for the
> car house.

And that's OK too.
 
> For those with a map handy, the left edge of the picture is at the
> alley between Spring and Walnut Streets.

Bzzznt. Error. "...between Chestnut and Walnut..." is what I should
have said.

> Actually, what we've been
> calling north is closer to northwest, so I guess to the left is
> southeast. Convention in Latrobe is that Ligonier Street runs
> north-south.

And that was OK.

I later responded to a statement that the original car house was just
about opposite the alley between Chestnut and Walnut by saying a
whole bunch of things which make no sense because this thing is at
that location, not a block further north as I had claimed above.

I can be such a dunce.

=====
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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