[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 20:37:03 EST 2012


Giant Eagle paçzki (and faschnacht) are not the same as little-old-lady made ones, sadly. I could get giant eagle ones shortly, before I bike back to the south side from homestead.

Derrick

On Feb 21, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> 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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