[PRCo] Re: Duquesne Incline post card

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings to all

a real pleasant memory.  I attended both the 1962 and 1963
events ( before PAT).  This is when I first met Mr & Mrs
David Miller of the Incline Society.  Wonderful people.  Good friends
to this date.,

Harold Geissenheimer

Bob Rathke wrote:

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>Attached is a scan of another post card (not copyrighted), this one =
>depicting two Cy Hungerford cartoons to celebrate the re-opening of the =
>Duquesne Incline in 1963.  Cy was editorial cartoonist at the Pittsburgh =
>Post-Gazette for many years, and he also liked to draw a "Toonerville =
>Trolley", often as it related to declining trolley service.
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>The caption: "Twas indeed a sorry day, when due to neglect and financial =
>stress the Duquesne Inclined Plane' was forced to close on November 21, =
>1962. - But a fund raising campaign by the aroused citizenry supported =
>by thousands of friends, reopened the Duquesne Incline on July 1, 1963.  =
>Cy Hungerford's cartoons tell their own story...Cartoons also available =
>on 6x6 white ceramic tile, at the Incline."
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>Note the "Pittsburgh 11, Pa" address - the card was issued in mid-1963, =
>right at the time when Zip Codes were first being introduced.
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>Bob 3/20/04
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