[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

[Barry, Matthew R]

I know exactly the location.  Wow.   Thanks for sharing this, Bob.  I've said it before, but the folks (many of you!) who snapped photos of streetcars and, er - buses, back then, were not only capturing the vehicle, but also the locale.   A lot of my friends who are lethargic when it comes to streetcars, otherwise enjoy seeing what things looked like decades back.

Yes - "pipple" taking the streetcar or in this case, the Brentwood bus, to town - was thee way to travel. 

I still recall my grandfather saying in the early 60s, that soon automobiles would be like ants -everywhere!  

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org [pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred Schneider [fwschneider at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:53 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

My gosh.  There were pipple on that bus.   That was before we convinced everyone that they needed their own car and also before we moved all the shopping venues to the suburbs.


On Feb 21, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:

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> Now I have 5,000 slides and thousands of feet of movies to look through. The cases included his Bell & Howell movie projector, and o n the first movie ree l I viewed I saw a clip of myself taken  in 1948.
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