[PRCo] Trach collection in the Burgh

[Bob Dietrich]

I know some of you remember, but do you have any pictures.  I'm talking
about the old trash trucks with the metal ladder dragging behind.  In my
minds eye I see a dark green open-top truck with sheet-metal sides that
seemed to flop around.  Garbage men would drag a large burlap sack into your
yard and empty the trash cans into it, pull up the corners into a sack, then
heft this large sack up the ladder and heave it into the truck holding onto
one corner in order to retrieve the burlap.  

The reason I'm looking for pictures of a truck is I want to build a model of
one.  I found one in the Pitt digital library by searching for refuse in the
city photographer collection, but it is a smaller truck from the '30s.  I'm
looking for a '50s version.  Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Bob