[PRCo] Re: Ardmore Car House

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Fri May 30 23:49:50 EDT 2003


On Fri, 30 May 2003, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I've just spent a frustrating few minutes trying to get information
> about this palace.  That's palace, not place.  It was a fairly extensive

Well, it did become Ardmore Roller Palace before the current thing in the
basement of the Cost building did, yes?

> With this in mind, it may NEVER have been used as an operating car
> house!  Rather, PRCo may well have shoved out-of-season or otherwise
> unused cars there, because all the track shows up on the 1923 drawing.
> There is no record of when the property fell into disuse and was sold.
> The Depression sounds viable!

I bet the Forest Hills history book makes a guess. I should find it.



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