[PRCo] Re: Lawrenceville Water Main Breaks 1950s

[Matt Barry]

That is for sure!   I remember the Fisk Drug Store, too.   Plus, right 
in that block, my grandparents owned a confectionary store.    The big 
deal in Lawrenceville way back when was to go to the Arsenal Theatre, 
then to their store for a soda.    Sounds idyllic, I know, but very true.
Funny how things like the neighborhood theatre, soda shops, and  mom & 
pop stores all went around the same time as the streetcars.   Or at 
least within a ten-year span.

Fred Schneider wrote:

>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.
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>>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  
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>>the Plummer Street trackage to get back up to Butler:  Butler, Plummer
>>and left up 47th Street and turn right, back on to Butler,  
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>>reverse, inbound.    Lucky to have Plummer Street tracks at that time,
>>which led to the Plummer St. car house.
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>>The last photo shows a zoomed-in view of the above-photo with a  
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>>of a temporary Pgh Railways crossover.
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>>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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