[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

[Dwight Long]

Derrick

Local supermarket had a closeout sale on them a couple weeks ago.  Bought a 
couple of boxes.  First experience with them--wish I had got more!

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:56 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach


> Today, failing to get my paczki, I am cursing the lack of bakery in
> the South Side. No trolley to brookline these days, and i know their
> bakery has them today. of course, not like i have time to bus, bike or
> drive there.
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>> 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:
>>
>>>
>>> I think I've taken exactly two photos of buses over the years.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Last Fall I inherited my uncle's (who worked for We st Penn) slides and 
>>> 8mm color movies that he took from 1946-1978. I've just started to look 
>>> through the two large shipping cases, and y esterday I discovered a 
>>> slide of a Brentwood Motor Coach that my uncle took from his porch on 
>>> Maytide St. in March, 1954 . My aunt and cousin are seen boarding the 
>>> bus. See attached file.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
>>> -- Type: image/jpeg
>>> -- Size: 37k (38034 bytes)
>>> -- URL : 
>>> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/BrentwoodBusMaytideSt0354.JPG
>>>
>>>
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> -- 
> Derrick
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