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

Mon Apr 8 15:36:08 EDT 2013

Fred

Ad nauseam would be more what I felt like after "celebrating" at the Brass 
Rail and had to drive back to Indiana. Fortunately I had a co-driver.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" 
<pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old 
andabandonedbuildings 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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> ----- 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
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
> 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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