[PRCo] Re: Rialto St.

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Perhaps...but how about on the new "handicapped access" ramps at Bon Air?
You could probably fly a human kite off those!

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Harold Geissenheimer
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:53 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rialto St.


Greetings
speaking of ski slopes

In WashingtonDC during early 1980's snow, people used skis to go down
the outside escalator at Dupont Ciircle.   Can we ski down the 42S r/w from
Fallowfield to Palmgarden?

Harold

Fred Schneider wrote:

>I looked up Rialto on Sunday ... nice paving job but I can only imagine
running
>a roller up that hill.  It will make a really nice ski slope in the winter.
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>Bob Rathke wrote:
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>>I just recalled a couple of other meat packing plants (in addition to
>>Lorrie's and Victory) located along trolley lines on the Northside in the
>>1950's: Oswald & Hess and Fried & Reineman.  O&H was a retail brand, and
>>lasted into the 1960's.
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>>A couple of recollections about Spring Hill neighbors who worked at these
>>plants - "slaughter houses" - in the 1950's:
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>>- George Zech worked at one of the plants (his wife worked in the baked
>>beans canning dept. at H.J. Heinz Co.) and he told neighborhood kids that
>>his job was to "pet" the cattle as they were herded into the plant.  Yeah.
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>>- Frank Hafner worked at Oswald & Hess for years, and he seemed to be a
very
>>old person in the 1950's..  Recently, I learned that he died in 1963 at
age
>>50.
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>>Bob 7/1/04
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:54 PM
>>Subject: Re: [PRCo] Re: Rialto St.
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>>>There were at least two meat packing plants on the North Side - Victory
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>>>Lorries.  One was on East St. near St. Boniface Church, and the other on
>>>Spring Garden Avenue just past the route 1 trolley loop.
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>>>Bob 6/28/04
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>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Harold Geissenheimer" <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
>>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>>Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:35 PM
>>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rialto St.
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>>>>Greetings
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>>>>Speaking about meat packing plants.  were they on Herr's island?
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>>RR
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