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

Mon Apr 8 15:32:30 EDT 2013

Bob

Not sure to what you refer.  I was on the last trip of Rt. 21 and then a few 
of us retired to a Brass Rail in the Triangle (on Liberty or Penn??) to cry 
in our beer over the loss.  What was the "last trolley day?"  Some 
enthusiast tour?

I'm sending this from my portable and don't have my records at hand or could 
tell you the exact date.  It was in 1966 for sure.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" 
<pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old 
andabandonedbuildings in Western Pa.

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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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> ----- Original Message -----
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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,
>
> 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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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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>> See:
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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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