[PRCo] Re: Ivory Towers

[Bob Rathke]

Thanks, John. I never realized that there was a second Ivory Towers car.  I
took two or three photos of an Ivory Towers car (probably 1699) in 1963-64.
I'll have to check my collection - maybe one of those photos is actually of
1605.

Bob 2/28/04

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John F Bromley" <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Ivory Towers


> You sort of blew this one, Bob.  There were TWO Ivory Towers Cars, 1699
and
> later 1605 (after it shed a Chrysler advert).  I have views of both.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:14 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Ivory Towers
>
>
> > I don't think that there are any NON-cops living in the Ivory Avenue
area.
> > Ivory Towers (west of Perrysville and Ivory Avenues) and just southwest
of
> > the old Keating Carbarn site, was one of the first single family
> > subdivisions built within the City of Pittsburgh limits.  Many
Pittsburgh
> > policemen live there because it is a suburban location that satisfies
the
> > City's residency requirement.
> >
> > By the way, in the early 60's PRC painted a PCC for Ivrory Towers.  The
> car
> > was painted an ivory color during the time that houses were being sold
> > there, and it had wording to the effect, "Take this car to Ivory
Towers."
> > Unlike most of the other ad-cars that ran only on 22-Crosstown at that
> time,
> > the Ivory Towers car ran on 8-Perrysville, and probably 10-West View
too.
> >
> > Bob 2/28/04
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark McGuire" <macmarka at netzero.net>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:55 PM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Location?
> >
> >
> > >
> > >  Gee, Fred! I'd love to tour the North Side and East End with you
> > > sometime. I never ventured into these areas very much when I lived
> > > in Pittsburgh. Had the streetcars still been running when I was a
teen,
> > > I'd have been all over the system I'm sure. I was relegated to just
> > > 42/38, 35, 36, and 49Arlington-Warrington. My mother went to Perry
> > > High on the North Side. My brother, who is a city cop, lives on Ivory
> > > Ave.(isn't this near Evergreen?). I'd love to see where the streetcars
> > > once ran.
> > >   I plan on being at PTM for the rollout of Red Arrow 14 June 26th.
> > >
> > >                         Mark Mc
> > RR
> >
> >
>
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