[PRCo] Re: Rialto St.

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The packer of Irish Brand meats...and the name escapes me right now...was on
Herr's Island also.  It was probably the (or a) sucessor to the company
named on the plat that Bob Netzlof referred us to.  Maybe Bob Rathke will
come to the rescue here!

Ed

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Harold
Geissenheimer
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 10:36 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rialto St.


Greetings

Speaking about meat packing plants.  were they on Herr's island?

In Manhattan, there was a large packing plant with live cattle on
42dt sreet at 11th Ave..  This became the siite of a Greyhound Garage
and is now the site of a large NYCT bus depot.

Going to the 42d street ferry or the dayline boat was a smelly experience.

Harold Geissenheimer

Bob Rathke wrote:

>Rialto St. - which I drove up and down many times - was known to the locals
>as Pig Alley, supposedly because early farmers on Troy Hill/Mt. Troy herded
>their hogs down that street on their way to the stockyards.
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>This time was not necessarily too "early." Growing up on Spring Hill in the
>late 1940's, I remember dairy cattle from Schnitgen's Dairy on East St.
>grazing in the fields just beyond the route 5 trolley loop.  And in the
>early 50's we sometimes saw cattle that had escaped from one of the meat
>packing houses in the area.
>
>Bob 6/22/04
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