[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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