[PRCo] Re: Fwd: correction to link

[Fred Schneider]

Thanks for catching my proofing error.

On Mar 10, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Bruce's last name is Wells, not Well.
>
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> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:12 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: correction to link
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>
> Here is the latest link to Bruce Well's blog.
>
> http://web.mac.com/cuzinbrucie/iWeb/G5/Photo%20Archive.html
>
> When I passed through this morning, a three man crew was painting the
> advertising card racks for 4398 in the shop.   You may remember a
> picture of the jig made to form them ... very thin plywood was bent
> into the proper shape and then glued to another very thin sheet, much
> like forming a bimetallic thermostat.
>
> Up at the other end of the line today a commercial track gang was
> installing special work leading into the trolley display building
> while our own line crew was setting steel poles for the overhead.
> When will it be possible to run cars in and out of the barn?
> Depends on who you talk to.   Maybe three months.
>
> The other news from PTM is the death of one of the earliest members,
> Mac McGrew, on February 28 at age 94.   The number of founding
> members of PTM, according to a conversation I had with EHL this
> morning, has diminished greatly in recent months.   Art Ellis is
> still with us.   Perhaps one other whom I cannot remember.   Pasted
> in below is Mac's obituary from the Post-Gazette.
>
>   News Obituaries
> Obituary: M.F. "Mac" McGrew / Foremost authority on metal typefaces,
> worked
> at Ketchum
> June 1, 1912 - Feb. 28, 2007
>
> Sunday, March 04, 2007
> By Mike Bucsko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
>
> At age 14, M.F. "Mac" McGrew bought a Kelsey Excelsior printing press,
> designed as a "parlour press" for hobbyists.
>
> It was the beginning of Mr. McGrew's lifelong love of printing and
> typesetting, a romance that culminated six decades later in his
> publication
> of a reference book on American metal typefaces that has become the
> bible on
> the subject.
>
> Seen as the leading authority on typefaces, Mr. McGrew received
> inquiries
> from around the world from those in the printing and design  
> business who
> were stumped by a certain typeface, said Mr. McGrew's son, Jon, of
> Kingston,
> N.Y.
>
> Mr. McGrew was also one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Trolley
> Museum
> in Chartiers, Washington County.
>
> Mr. McGrew, 94, died Wednesday of complications from pneumonia at the
> Asbury
> Heights retirement community in Mt. Lebanon, where he had lived for
> the past
> 20 years.
>
> Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., Marion Foreman McGrew moved to Crafton
> with his
> parents and younger sister in 1916. Mr. McGrew's interest in
> typefaces may
> have first been stirred by his father, Carl, an architect who
> specialized in
> inscriptional lettering, that is part of the architecture of
> buildings. The
> Chamber of Commerce Building, Downtown, is an example of Carl
> McGrew's work,
> said Lucinda Dyjak of Ben Avon, Mac McGrew's daughter.
>
> In high school. Mr. McGrew experimented with typewriter typefaces and
> their
> use in portraits. A typewriter typeface portrait he made of President
> Franklin D. Roosevelt later appeared in "Ripley's Believe It or Not,"
> his
> daughter said.
>
> Mr. McGrew worked at a few printing companies in Pittsburgh while he
> attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon
> University, before he opened his own print shop in Crafton. After a
> stint in
> the Army during World War II, Mr. McGrew moved back to Pittsburgh and
> continued to work in the printing business.
>
> In 1950, Mr. McGrew got a job as the typographic director at what
> became the
> Ketchum Advertising agency. He worked at Ketchum until his  
> retirement in
> 1977.
>
> Over the years, Mr. McGrew wrote hundreds of articles about typefaces
> for
> various publications. He began work when he retired on his classic
> reference, American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, which  
> was
> first published in 1986.
>
> Mr. McGrew's encyclopedic knowledge of typefaces made him the person
> to seek
> for companies and individuals with questions, including Adobe and  
> other
> companies that design computer software for the printing and graphic
> design
> business, his son said.
>
> In addition to his son and daughter, Mr. McGrew is survived by a
> grandson. A
> memorial service for Mr. McGrew will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at  
> Asbury
> Heights, 700 Bower Hill Road, Mt. Lebanon.
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