[PRCo] Re: Photo Trivia

[Fred Schneider]

My initial reaction to the first one before I even saw your question was Diamond Market.

On the second one.   I think you are dealing with a scratch on the negative or plate over the truck windshield.   I am also wondering if, like a water injector on a steam locomotive, those fire trucks didn't have a drain pipe or hose, and that is what you might be looking at ... a water drain from the pump that is used in starting the pump.   Just a hunch.

Things you don't see any longer in photo 3?   The pedestrian don't walk signal incorporated into the traffic light ... remember when Pittsburgh traffic lights went from green to green and amber (which you see here to warn pedestrians not to walk), to amber, then to red?   The B&O station is gone.   The Parkway was been built (1958).   There are additional highway lanes on the Smithfield St Bridge.   Long skirts on women are gone.  

Photo 4 - His face is appears forward / the position of a PCC seat is actually a few degrees to the right of actual forward  / we do not know where his wyes are.   I suspect the car is not moving because a taxi is parked or standing within the clearance line for the streetcar.  If the streetcar is moving, the cab driver is going to have a rude awakening.   (Is that the answer you wanted Herb?) 






On Nov 9, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> Two things are possible with each of the attached four photos. Either I need
> information concerning the photo or there is something of interest (trivial
> interest, which we know is interesting) in these photos. I will give my
> questions about each photo and maybe someone can give an answer.
> Photo 1--Is this Market Square or Penn Station? I'm guessing Market Square.
> Anyone know for sure? There is another interesting/trivial thing in the
> photo.
> 
> Photo 2--A fire at the Granada Theater in the Hill District in the 1930s.
> Two things are "different" in the photo. Where is the fire hose going after
> it comes out of the fire engine? What, if anything, just struck the window
> of the automobile in the foreground?
> 
> Photo 3--This is the former configuration of the intersection at the
> city-end of the Smithfield Street Bridge. What thing(s) in the photo will we
> never see in reality any longer?
> 
> Photo 4--The trolley is turning from Penn onto Sixth. The operator is
> looking straight ahead. What is about to happen?
> 
> Let me know what you find.
> The last photo is just the colorized version of a famous, well viewed photo
> of the first PCCs for PRCo. We may or may not have seen this photo on The
> List before.
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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