[PRCo] Re: Downtown pool hall

[Edward H. Lybarger]

May 1, 1929 timetable says "Waiting Room on Grant Street, near Liberty Ave."

January 5, 1932 timetable says "Waiting Room, Greyhound Terminal, 1010
Liberty Avenue."

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Harold G.
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:39 AM
To: Bob Rathke
Cc: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Downtown pool hall


Bob
the bus terminal was across 10th street from the hotel.
it was between the alley and penn ave.   my office was
on second floor.  Terminal was once a furniture store.
Had a grand staircase to the second floor!

other corners.    in bound on Penn nearside at car stop (curb side)
                        was a parking lot in my day.  now part of conv
center

                        inbound on Penn far side.  Was a parking lot.'(curb
side)
                        became Trailways bus terminal

                        inbound on Penn near side (opposide side)
                        side of hotel

                        inbound on Penn far side)opposite side)
                        side of bus terminal

                        on 10th hotel side Penn ave to alley  Hotel main
door

                        on 10th hotel side alley to Liberty.  various stores

                        on 10th street Penn ave to alley     Harmony
terminal

                        on 10th street alley to Liberty    Defrates
restaurant
                         still there, new names

                        on Liberty near side streetcar stop across from
Greyhound
                        various stores and several bus waiting rooms

                        on Liberty far side toward smithfield street.
various stores

You can still see the Harmony building  Its still in use as a school or
something.  it was across from the hotel, not on the same side as
 the hotel.

During the war there may have been other pkaces for a pool hall.
But across was always the Harmony.

Thank him for his assistance.

now here is a question for our historian (back to PRC web)
Before the Greyhound sales agency for the interurban trolley, was there an
earlier trolley agent on Liberty Ave>   Can you check an interurban
timetable
from 1930?   Any agency shown?

Harold Geissenheimer



    -----Original Message-----
    From: Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net>
    To: Harold Geissenheimer <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
    Date: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:06 PM
    Subject: Downtown pool hall


    Harold,

    Here are recollections from Norb Nathanson:

    Bob 3/20/05

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    Bob,

    If memory serves me, the hotel was on a street that was perpendicular to
Liberty and Penn Avenues.  Tenth sounds right.  It would have been 1942-3.
I was 16 or 17, and the guys didn't get called for the draft until 43 and 44
and at that time the hotel was pretty seedy, the street was somewhat dark
and the pool hall was across Tenth from the hotel, somewhere in that block,
on the second floor.  They had four or five tables and also a billiard
table.  There was a streetcar stop at that corner on Penn where we used to
get off and back on.  My recollection is that the bus station (later) was on
the same side of Tenth as the hotel.

    Norb