[PRCo] Re: Plummer carhouse

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

There were two or three bars within sight of my house and I seem to remember
one day all those neon signs came down - I must have been about ten so it
was early '50s.  My mom told me the city passed an ordinance that the signs
could not just have the beer name but they had to have the name of the
establishment (or something).  Conclusion: Pittsburgh politicians were the
first to worry about our morals.  Must have been a diversion.

Bob 

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Fred Schneider [mailto:fschnei at supernet.com] 

But what I
remembered mostly were all of those neon signs in front of bars ... Iron
City
Beer, Duquesne Pilsner, and so forth.  Must have been a bar to every other
block.

We still need to convince the museum management at Arden that we need a
propoperly illuminated bar sign.  And, of course, the left front dasher
panel on
3756 or 4398 needs a beer advertisement.  (And, to be sure, someone who
watches
our morals will tell us we can't do it.)

Fred the Agitator
.......
Bob Rathke wrote:

> My father worked at Heppenstall Steel Co. in Lawrenceville, and every
summer
> they had their company picnic at West View Park.  Living on Spring Hill,
we
> always drove to the park, but Heppenstall chartered PRC trolleys in the
> 1940's, and possibly into the early 50's.  I remember the chartered
trolleys
> leaving from the Plummer carhouse which was just a few blocks from the
> Heppenstall plant on 46th St.
>
> At that time my father's brother worked at H.K. Porter Co. which was also
> near Heppenstall and Plummer.  Porter built industrial steam locomotives.
I
> have a Porter locomotive catalog from 1943.  My father got it from the
> Heppenstall library when the company closed - the catalog is signed by
> company president R.B. Heppenstall.
>
> Bob 9/19/03
>

fws