[PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection

[Boris Cefer]

Just a brief comment, rather not serious... Doesn't Schneider in German mean
tailor? :-)

Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 5:23 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection


> 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
>
> -----------------------------
> ----- 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
>
>