[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Interurban

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 11:13:36 EDT 2009


> I tried to find Acheson on the internet and it seems to have
> disappeared like so
> many old time Pittsburgh area manufacturing institutions:  Crane
> Plumbing,
> Armstrong Cork, Mesta Machine, Walworth Valves, Jones and Laughlin
> Steel,
> Pittsburgh Steel, Dravo Corporation, Gulf Oil ... want me to keep
> going?

Kleber Trunk and Bag, the glass houses all over the South Side, every
brewery in the city, Oliver Iron and Steel, Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt,
Dilworth-Porter, Mackintosh-Hemphill, ...


> How
> about West View Park, Loews Penn Theater, Stanley Warner.   And then
> there
> was my dad's favorite, the Casino.

None of them manufactured anything!

Derrick




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