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

Bob Rathke bobrathke at comcast.net
Mon Apr 8 14:25:04 EDT 2013 


Probably because you've been on the Trolley List so long, Fred. 



Bob 



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From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 1:15:49 PM 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of        old        and        abandonedbuildings in Western Pa. 

Why did I know that, once started, this was going to go on ad infinitum?   :<) 


On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Bob Rathke wrote: 

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> Dwight, 
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> There was a Brass Rail on E. Ohio St.  Did you skip the se cond half of the "last trolley day" on 4/3 0/66?     
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> That night I rode the last 21-Fine view car out to Fineview and back to downtown, then caught the last 6/14 trolley and rode out to Avalon and back.   I took the attached photo as a group of fans on Penn Ave.  made the dash to board 1799. 
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> Bob 
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> From: "Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 11:43:33 AM 
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old        and        abandonedbuildings in Western Pa. 
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> Bob 
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> My last (somewhat faint) memory of the Brass Rail is consuming mass quantities of beer in one of their outlets after I had ridden the last ever Rt. 21 Fineview car, 
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> Dwight 
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> From: Bob Rathke 
> Sent: Monday, 08 April, 2013 12:23 
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old and abandonedbuildings in Western Pa. 
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> Fred, 
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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. 
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> My paternal great grandfather was fire engineer at the City of Allegheny fire station No. 2 on Concord St. from 1868 to the early 1900's (see attached photo).  I also have a photo of him working in Johnstown after the 1889 flood (I assume that Allegheny sent fireman to Johnstown to help out).  And I have copies of his Civil War records and pension. 
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> About the Brass Rail: the restaurants  had a large (probably 5 'X10 ') copy of a  painting behi nd the bar.  The painting depicted a 1930-style bus, but the bus  was five stories tall and looked like a cruise ship on wheels. The title of the painting was, "A bus salesman's dream in 1960".  I wonder if that painting survived the restaurants. 
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> Bob 
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> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 10:43:23 AM 
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old and abandoned        buildings in Western Pa. 
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> You know you are old, Bob, when someone asks "What's a McCrorys?"  Think of all those old store names that are no longer there.  I will confine myself to western Pennsylvania … Woolworths, Gimbels, Kaufmans, Joseph Horne, Rosenbaums, Boggs and Buhl, Isalys. 
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> Yup….   And you now have to be in your 40s to understand what communism was like in eastern Europe.   In a way, I guess I am rather glad that I vacationed in East Germany before the wall came down and saw it.   I guess, as ugly as history can be, I guess it was also good for me that I experienced the segregated southern states … black and white drinking fountains, toilets, restaurants, etc.   
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> Now, how the hell do I explain to my granddaughter and her husband, who is of African descent, what it would have been like living in this country 60 or more years ago?   
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> On Apr 4, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Bob Rathke wrote: 
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>> Here's a Facebook page containing photos of old and abondoned structures in Western Pa.  It contains a few rail photos. I've posted some of my 1956-82 photos in the section for, "Recent posts by others". 
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>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Abandoned-Old-Interesting-Places-Western-PA/237114536307967?sk=photos#!/pages/Abandoned-Old-Interesting-Places-Western-PA/237114536307967 
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