[PRCo] Re: PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th!

[Dwight Long]

Ed

My orthodontist's office was in the Jenkins Arcade and it was through making visits to him that I accomplished much of my early day PRC track bashing.  My parents paid the train fare for me to get to and from Pittsburgh since I was going to the dentist;  all I had to pony up was carfare.  As long as I was home to Beaver on the Evening Steel King, all was well.  I could even make a round trip on the interurbans--although I usually did not have the monetary values for this, until I got a paper route.

Dwight
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Edward H. Lybarger 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Saturday, 13 November, 2010 19:25
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th!


  That's when you smile and thank the guard for telling you the rules, as
  you're walking out the door!

  I remember the store, too; my office was in the Jenkins Arcade during the
  mid-to-late '70s - a short walk away.  Nice wood floors, just like the
  Woolworth's in Canonsburg (and the Murphy's in State College as recently as
  the late '80s). 

  -----Original Message-----
  From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
  [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
  bobrathke at comcast.net
  Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:19 PM
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th!


  As Ed notes (and for anyone who was there in the 60's), this is
  clearly Sixth St., turning onto Liberty Ave. 



  The scene reminded me of the day that I took my camera into that Woolworth
  store - a few days before it closed. A store security guard stopped me and
  said photography wasn't allowed inside the store, but by that time I had
  taken nearly 20 photos on the first and second floors. 


  Bob 




  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
  Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:07:58 PM
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th! 

  There's a lot wrong with the identifying material accompanying this image. 
  First, the car is turning from 6th Street onto Liberty Avenue. Â Second,
  it's attributed to the Pittsburgh Railways Company holdings. Â At that time,
  the railfan photographer called himself the "Pittsburgh Railways Company"
  and even had letterheads reading it. Â Third, the route was around long
  before 1940. Â The University has been once again been misinformed...it's
  not part of the actual PRCo records. 


  -----Original Message-----
  From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
  [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Phillip
  Clark Campbell
  Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 5:06 PM
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
  Subject: [PRCo] PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th! 

  http://tinyurl.com/1537-87-1965
  "View of PCC car 1537 making a left turn from Smithfield Street to 6th
  Avenue. 
  The 87 Ardmore route existed from 1940 Â to 1967. 
  It was discontinued as a result of Port Authority  modernization." 

  Â Phil
  Without  a  'coast'  but  not  a  'cause.' 



  Â Â Â Â