[PRCo] Re: Wabash-Gateway Center-Streetcar

[Bill Robb]

Route 64 terminated at Stanwix after coming in on
Forbes (Diamond). The photos were taken on Stanwix. 
The car is turning onto Fourth.

The Empire Building was on the corner of Liberty and
Stanwix.  The Jenkins Arcade took up the rest of the
block bounded by Liberty, Stanwix, Penn, and Fifth.

Enter Jenkins Arcade or Wabash at this link for a plot
map of the building sites:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/buildingsearch.html


In the photos, the taller building in the background
is the Empire Building.  The smaller building with the
chimney (or whatever) in the corner is the back of the
Jenkins Arcade.  The third building is Joseph Horne
Co.

Here's a map from the last days of Route 64 trolley
operation (M-F, and some holiday Sundays). Route 64
came inbound on Forbes (actually Diamond) used a short
section of southbound track on Stanwix so it could go
out Fourth.

http://www.amcap.org/pat_route_history/images/64_2_map1.jpg

http://www.amcap.org/pat_route_history/images/6467_2_sched1.jpg

http://www.amcap.org/pat_route_history/images/64_2_sched2.jpg


Bill Robb

--- Matt Barry <mrb190+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
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> I take it there must have been some re-configuring
> of streetcar routes 
> when the Wabash Bldg. and other were demolished to
> make way for the 
> Gateway Center buidlings.    I just can't figure out
> what the heck this 
> route 64 car is doing in these photos.   One photo
> is from a distance, 
> showing the whole area, and the next is a close-up.
> 
> Here's the description, but it's hard for me to
> believe that that entire 
> building behind the streetcar is the Jenkins Arcade.
>   I thought Jenkins 
> was on Liberty between Fifth and Stanwix.
> 
> Matt
> 
> "Looking down what was then known as Ferry Street
> (now known as Stanwix 
> Street) in downtown Pittsburgh, this photograph
> shows the ruins of the 
> old Wabash Railroad Terminal on the right. The
> terminal had been one of 
> five railroad terminals in Pittsburgh until it was
> destroyed by fire in 
> 1946, clearing the way for the demolition of the
> entire area and 
> construction of the Gateway Center project. The
> building on the far 
> right center of the photograph is the old Jenkins
> Arcade, later razed to 
> make space for the building now known as One Fifth
> Avenue Place."
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