[PRCo] Re: Rialto St.

[Bob Rathke]

There were at least two meat packing plants on the North Side - Victory and
Lorries.  One was on East St. near St. Boniface Church, and the other on
Spring Garden Avenue just past the route 1 trolley loop.

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.


> 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
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> Bob Rathke wrote:
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> >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.
> >
> >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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> >Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:48 AM
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