[PRCo] Re: "Have a Duke!"

[Edward H. Lybarger]

It is possible that the clock was moved to this building from another? 

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
J Brashear
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:42 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] "Have a Duke!"

By now you've all figured out I live in the South Side (or you just don't
care)

A couple weeks ago, the clock on the "new" Duquesne Brewery building
suddenly no longer said Equitable Gas. It stopped a few times, and then was
again lit and running, but painted light grey and with no logo.

WPXI ran a story saying the sponsorship was yanked, and quoted someone in
the family who owns the place (J Poli Inc is the family company but it's not
the Poli family) saying no sponsor but they'd run it for now. WPXI quoted a
1933 build date... for a clock on a building dedicated in 1950.

I dropped them a note, and have heard nothing. I looked at pictures I
have: when the building was dedicated in 1950 there was clearly no clock on
that tower. The master plan sketches in the promo book they put out when it
opened (after some legwork I discovered it was at HSWP and went there and
bought some photocopies) showed no clock on it, instead "DUQUESNE" spelled
out on all top of all faces of the tower.

Ok. So WPXI's wrong, right? If so they're in good company; Lots of others
quote the same or similar date. Anyway, maybe not:
http://bit.ly/ZqxgH

Clearly the clock was not on that building in 1933. However, if its really
true that Audichron made clocks only until 1934 (and I presume a
representative from the company would have disavowed it otherwise), where
was the clock from 1933 until it was erected on the 1950 brewery building?

By the way, here's the paid advertising from the day the brewery opened:
http://bit.ly/3fwQU4

I figured out a likely way to contact the guy quoted in the 1983 article as
repairing the clock. When I am less busy (i.e. not this week) I may call him
if I don't figure it out.

Derrick