[PRCo] Re: Lawrenceville Water Main Breaks 1950s

[Fred Schneider]

There is so much more than trolleys in that first picture ... the  
white Gulf dealer with separate wash and lube bays and an attendant  
who checked oil and pumped gasoline all for not much different than  
you pay today for someone to snarl at you from a booth.   And then  
there is the advertisement on the building for Dad's Old Fashioned  
Root Beer.   That also reminds me of their radio jingles.  Remember  
them guys?  Radio jingles?   Even Garrison Keilor hasn't tried one of  
them yet.    Not only were villages independent shopping centers, but  
so were neighborhoods in cities.

On Nov 2, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Matt Barry wrote:

> Just some interesting photos of the early 1950s and how streetcars got
> around water main breaks in Lawrenceville at that time.
> The first shows a 1950 break at Butler and 40th St.    The workmen are
> able to work between the tracks.
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> The second shows another break, this time in 1951, on Butler Street at
> Plummer, where the tracks are torn up, seemingly a bigger, more
> intensive job.  On the left of the photo, the streetcars apparently  
> used
> the Plummer Street trackage to get back up to Butler:  Butler, Plummer
> and left up 47th Street and turn right, back on to Butler,  
> outbound. The
> reverse, inbound.    Lucky to have Plummer Street tracks at that time,
> which led to the Plummer St. car house.
>
> The last photo shows a zoomed-in view of the above-photo with a  
> picture
> of a temporary Pgh Railways crossover.
>
> Speaking of the Plummer Street Car House, weren't the tracks formerly
> located there eventually used at the (then-called) Arden Trolley  
> Museum?
>
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