[PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection

[Bob Rathke]

An interesting comment on the Northside tailor shop, Fred.

In the early 1900's, my (maternal) great grandfather, Joseph Wurdack, owned
a tailor shop on E. Ohio St. near James St.  The shop name was painted on
the brick side wall of the building, and it was still visible into the
1970's.  I have his cutting shears, as well as a wooden coat hanger
imprinted with the shop's name.

His son, Joseph Wurdack, Jr., continued the business until 1954, and by then
it was located on East St., just north of North Avenue.

Both sides of my family were German and Austrian.  They came to Pittsburgh
as early as 1828, and all of them lived on the Northside - James St. near
what is now Allegheny General Hospital, Spring Hill and City View.

My (maternal) grandfather's name was Lutz, another business name on the
Northside - Lutz Brewery on Chestnut St. at Spring Garden Ave. (now the site
of the fire station), and Lutz & Shramm (jelly and preserves plant) on E.
Ohio St. just east of the Heinz plant.  Both of these company buildings were
still standing in the 1960's.

Bob 12/23/04

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:40 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection

> Census enumeration worksheets from 1870 and 1880.  My great grandfather
ultimately moved himself, his German wife and his tailor shop over to
Sandusky Street next to Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side of the
River.  Ambition aside, Germans were not supposed to go there.  That was
English territory.
RR