[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

[Bob Rathke]

Dwight, 



I n 1972   I rented 1/4 of a quadplex on a street just nor th of Greenlee Road.  I rode BMC in the 50's, but not in '72. 


Bob 


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From: "Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:42:01 PM 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach 


Bob 

Ah, yes, the Brentwood Motor Coach Co. Â After the fatal accident at 
Kaufmann's, a wag at the Museum started referring to it as the 
Brentwood Murder Lurch Co. Â They were notorious for using Fitzjohn products. 
Was the one in the photo a Fitzjohn? Â For one year I rented half of a duplex 
on Greenlee Road in Brentwood. Â The BMC stopped half a block from my house. 
I rode it once or twice. Â Normally I drove to Frederick Street and took the 
37 to the Triangle. 

Another thing about BMC: Â Their pollution controls were non-existent. Â It 
was a true curse to get behind one in the Liberty Tubes! Â We called them 
Pittsburgh's only coal burning buses. 

Dwight 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net> 
To: "Pittsburgh Trolley List" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:09 PM 
Subject: [PRCo] Brentwood Motor Coach 


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> I think I've taken exactly two photos of buses over the years. 
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> 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. Â in March, 1954 . My aunt and cousin are seen boarding the 
> bus. See attached file. 
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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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> Bob 
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> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/BrentwoodBusMaytideSt0354.JPG 
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