[PRCo] Re: so where was it?
Derrick Brashear
shadow at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 07:33:03 EST 2012
Right idea, wrong town.
That number was the PNC Aliquippa Office.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XvAuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o9sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3528%2C4794617
Right idea, wrong restaurant. Look closely at the blue thing in the
window of the restaurant. Looks like a bell,
doesn't it?
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t7hRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rWkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5591%2C1955567
Right name, right building. Here's the Joseph Building.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fan-t/5536060560/
Where Hopewell Avenue intersects Station St.
The thing you can't see right behind the bus? Route 51 (Constitution
Blvd). Mystery solved.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
> Switching to Pittsburgh National Bank (now PNC) rather than White Tower, I
> find that today there is a PNC bank at 500 Pine Hollow Road. That is where
> Pine Hollow, Dohrman, and Singer come together. The 26-West Park used to
> run down Dohrman and Singer. Could this be the location and the reason for
> the silver line poles in the photo?
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 17:13, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
>> > Should have been Tower not Castle. I see why they sued each other. That's
>> > why I thought the building in the photo may have been a former one, in
>> 1979
>> > out of business, and not on your list.
>>
>> By 1979 there weren't many left. You can watch the dominoes tumble one by
>> one looking in Google News Archives. Apparently there is but one White
>> Tower left
>> at all, outside Toledo. Maybe next time I drive to Chicago. Normally I
>> don't do much
>> fast food but understanding is important (to me).
>>
>> FWIW, found another of that 15, by the (pre 1956) New Ken town hall.
>> Also not it.
>>
>>
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>> --
>> Derrick
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> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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Derrick
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