[PRCo] Church stops

[Bob Rathke]

I think I've told this story before, but on Sundays in the early 1950s my
family rode the 5-Spring Hill trolley to St. Patrick's chapel on Penn Ave.
at 14th St.  (St. Patrick's main church is on Liberty Ave. at 17th St., and
in the 1950s WJAS radio broadcast their 9AM Sunday Masses).

The motormen on route 5 knew that they left people off at St. Patrick's
chapel around 10AM, so about an hour later - on their next run into
downtown, they would ring their bell as they passed St. Patrick's inbound.
This was a signal to all of us in church that the outbound trolley (to take
us back to Spring Hill) would be at Liberty Ave. and 14th St. in about 10
minutes.

Talk about operator courtesy!

Bob 9/24/03

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From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:08 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Mother, Europe, Pittsburgh.....


> Sad isn't it, Ken.  Can you imagine no Mormons, no Catholics, no
Presbyterians, no