[PRCo] Re: McKeesport

[Fred Schneider]

It's particularly nice because it shows a gas station from before the  
"slob in the box" era of gasoline marketing, back to when they were  
called service stations and when you received service when you went  
there.   An era of rest rooms and some of them were actually clean,  
when you went there instead of McDonalds to download.   And remember  
the garage bays?   You went there to get new plugs and points twice a  
year and an oil change once a month.   And you went there to get new  
tires or to get a flat tire fixed?   And they would even wash the car  
for you in their spare time.   Inside too.   And we didn't even have  
a fancy name for it like detailing.   It was simply vacuuming the  
seats and washing the windows to get the tobacco off them.

And it's interesting because it shows an idea that Pittsburgh  
Railways had.   If you can't beat em, join em.   If people are going  
to insist on driving cars, then put gas stations inside the trolley  
loops.

On Aug 26, 2006, at 8:40 AM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>  
<mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>   Boris
>   Thanks Buddy - I was looking for a picture of the Mckeesport Loop,
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>    Jerrry Matisckowski
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>> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
>> Date: 2006/08/26 Sat AM 06:39:18 EDT
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>> Subject: [PRCo] McKeesport
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