[PRCo] Re: Redd's Beach and Westside Transit

[Bob Rathke]

Is Mineral Beach still there?  We sometimes went there we lived in Bethel 
Park - it was a short drive on Rt. 88.

The only thing I didn't like about Mineral Beach was that they prohibited 
patrons from wearing prescription eyeglasses...even if the lenses were 
plastic.

Bob 1/1/10



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry "Matt" Matsick" <jerry.matsick at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 7:02 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Redd's Beach and Westside Transit


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> Rich - in the l950s as a teenager from Donora many of us, plus each 
> valley  High School layed claim to certain grass areas at Redd's Beach, 
> it was the in place to go along with Mineral Beach just north of 
> Monongahela on Rt 88
> Jerry Matsick
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> Jacksonville
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Rockwell" <rrockwell at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Friday, January 1, 2010 5:32:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [PRCo] Redd's Beach and Westside Transit
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> Does anybody on this list know anything about the history of Redd's Beach
> (now Pine Cove Swim Club) on Rt 481 (Charleroi area) near exit 35 on I-70?
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> I was contacted by Judy Florian who is compiling information about the
> history of Washington County
> [http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/
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> ] and is looking for information about the owner prior to Redd.
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> She contacted me because of the reminiscence of Tom Phillips I have on my
> web site [http://eldorapark.com/Charleroi_Memories_PTM_%204-20-02.htm] in
> which Tom said (in reference to the Berryman Building in Charleroi that
> housed Montgomery Wards from the 30's to the 60's) "John Berryman, the
> owner, was not only one of the principal stockholders of Westside Transit
> and Webster, Monessen, Belle Vernon, and Fayette City Railway Company but
> also the builder of Berryman's Beach, a traffic generator, located on the
> trolley line about 3 miles southwest of Charleroi. The park was sold after
> Mr. Berryman's death in the mid-1930's and renamed Redd's Beach. Again
> changing hands and now named Pine Cove Beach Club."
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> Florian's research on Redd's Beach has a Sam Nelson building the pool 
> called
> Nelson's Bathing Beach...later just Nelson's Beach. Â He sold to Sam Redd
> about 1935, and she finds no mention of Berryman owning the site. Â 
> Articles
> from the pool's opening in 1927 point out easy access by auto, street car,
> or omnibus.
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> If anybody has any information about this, let me know, and I'll pass it 
> on
> to her.
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> Rich Rockwell
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