[PRCo] Re: 1960

[Bob Rathke]

Yes, Fr.Mac was the president who lost the bet.  He was also a General in
the USAF, and he came to our ROTC drills.
He passed on a year or so ago.

To get this message on-topic:  In the late 1950's most of the students at
Duquesne were commuters.  The running joke was that in the next year PRC
would place a car check vending machine in the Canevin Hall cafeteria.  It
never happened.

Bob 2/26/05

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1960


> Bob and all.  Lets give this a PRC twist,
> Was the Duquesne President Father  McAnulty?
> If so, his brother was Bill McAnulty who worked for me at PAT
> He came from PRC in planning.  the president was
> a Holy Ghost Father.
>
> Also I lived with Gouze family in Dormont from l951 to
> l957.  Matt Gouze was the founder of the Duquesne
> University Tamburitzans.  This is an eastern Europe
> folk music group.located at a corner building on the
> Blvd of the Allies.
>
> Harold Geissenheimer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Date: Saturday, February 26, 2005 9:23 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] 1960
>
>
> >A non-trolley aside: over the past five years, I had two separate
> >opportunities to meet both Bill Mazeroski and Yogi Berra here in Chicago.
> >Both were very friendly, but Yogi didn't want to talk about standing in
> left
> >field that day in 1960, watching Mazeroski's homerun ball sail over his
> >head.
> >
> >On the 7th game day, I was on my way home from classes at Duquesne
> >University, and had changed buses at E. Ohio and Chestnut Streets.
Waiting
> >for the 5-Spring Hill bus, someone said, "You'd better hurry home and
watch
> >the game on TV."
> >
> >I did, and then I listened to reports of the post-game festivities on
KDKA
> >Radio.  I didn't venture back downtown that day.
> >
> >The next day, classes were cancelled at DU.  It seems that the president
of
> >the University had made a wild bet with students that if the Pirates won
> the
> >World Series, there would be no classes.  He thought it would be a safe
> bet.
> >
> >Bob 2/26/05
> >----------------------------
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
> >To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:04 AM
> >Subject: [PRCo] World Series in 1960__[WAS:::::::] car stop sign
available
> >
> >
> >> Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >> > While we are talking about the Pirates recently, does anyone have any
> >> > stories of the night they beat the yankee's (lower case to show no
> >> > respect) in the 7th. game of the World Series in 1960? I was a jr. in
> >> > college about 40 miles away and listened as did everyone when Bill M.
> >> > hit the homer but instead of piling into a car for Pittsburgh stayed
> >> > back to study. I don't think the cops let any cars through the
Liberty
> >> > tubes that night and have heard stories of many fans riding the tops
> >> > of PCC's. Any truth?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Fred!
> >>
> >>
> >> Have some memories of that time.       I believe you are correct that
> >> the tubes were closed.       Someone else has indicated that everyone
> >> gravitated toward downtown and closing the tubes may have prevented
more
> >> from arriving downtown.       Downtown was total gridlock  --  couldn't
> >> get in and couldn't get out!
> >>
> >> Wasn't much in the way of TrolleyCar service on the 42-Dormont.
> >>
> >> Ticker tape was so thick it jammed the wheels on a trolleycar which
then
> >> burnt through the overhead which then fell on a woman and killed
> >> her.       Giggle search of the snoozepapers should retrieve articles
on
> >> this.
> >>
> >> Then there was the vandalism.       Can understand the ecstasy that
goes
> >> with such a win but not the vandalism  --  Do Not see that connection
> >> myself.
> >>
> >> My aunt worked in the medical department of US-Steel and I still have
> >> some company photographs of the buildings lit up to honor the pirates
> >> --  now to find them!!!!!!!
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim__Holland
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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