[PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old and abandoned buildings in Western Pa.

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:
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> While you're remembering Fifth and Liberty Avenues, don't forget Frank & Seder, Spear and May Stern department/furniture stores. Also 5&10's G.C. Murphy and  Grants; the Brass Rail and Bards (similar to Isaly's, but Bard stores were in the neighborhoods, not downtown ).
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> My grandmother worked at Rosenbaums before she was married.  The Rosenbaum building was a solid structure , and it took months to dem olish it before they could start building the parking garage that's on the site now.  My grandfather worked at Boggs & Buhl and was an office boy  for R.H. Boggs, but his family encouraged him to leave the store and learn a trade.  The R.H. Boggs home on the Mexican War Streets is now a B&B.

They also had a restaurant, but it wasn't doing well enough.

I prevented the place from having a horrible fire in 2007, by a
coincidence of timing.