[PRCo] Re: July 4th, 1982

[Fred Schneider]

Two (long) comments, Ken:

1)  My father, who came from Marietta, Ohio, via Cleveland to  
Pittsburgh to finish his college education at Carnegie Tech in 1928  
remembered that they were trying to patch the Smithfield Street  
Bridge together then.   Hmmm.   It's still standing and we're  
worrying about the Birmingham Bridge from 1971?

2)  The Dennis theater in Mount Lebanon shows in one of the links.  I  
remember going in there in the 1980s and discovering they had it set  
up the projection rooms to show an entire movie spooled on one flat  
disc so that the projectionist could work all sorts of different  
screening booths.  (Conventional technology used 20-minute reels of  
35mm film.)   Now we've gone to digital.   This spring I saw a  
digital remake of the MGM film Singin' in the Rain on the big screen  
(big meaning a 250 seat theater, not 2,500 like they used to be) and  
it was surprisingly good.   The first time I saw that 1952 film was  
in the 5,933 seat Radio City Music Hall in New York City.  It was  
nice to see the old Pacific Electric Birney again on stage instead of  
bleached in the sun at Orange Empire.


On Jul 26, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> I was wrong about the number....it was a 1600 renumbered as  
> 1787...and both
> front door sets were open. You can see it heading through an  
> intersection,
> front doors open. It was a humid evening, maybe the open doors  
> caused a nice
> breeze through the car.
>
> We were visiting from Milwaukee and we rode a "real" 1700 downtown  
> and back.
> My girlfriend was terrified by the various bridges. I didn't bother  
> to tell
> her the Smithfield Street Bridge was the only one to worry about.....
>
> K.
>
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> http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/pitt409.htm
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> http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/pitt406.htm
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> http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/pitt411.htm
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