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

Mon Apr 8 18:40:58 EDT 2013

Another business I though had long bit the dust is alive and well on
Brownsville Road. Just north (?) (toward South Side) of Maytide Street is a
full-service Gulf Oil Station still with the Orange, Blue and White
electric signs and gasoline pumps dispensing "Good Gulf" regular. I though
they had gone out of business years ago. Also, just beside my apartment
building is a storefront which used to be Bard's Dairy. Now it's a dentist
office. The "Boron" Oil Company station inside Brentwood Loop is now a tax
and accounting office. The loop is still busy with buses, however. Many
times I see two or three buses sitting in the loop consuming recovery time
just as the PCC's did. During AM peak periods the 51-Carrick buses sit in
one lane and the 51L-Carrick via Tunnel buses sit in the second lane just
as the PCC's did.

While so much has changed in Pittsburgh over the years, still, so very much
as remained as it always was. This gives the city it's
character............something other cities wish they had.

Attached is the "view from the veranda", or without embellishment, we're
looking off the back porch toward a portion of Carrick/Brentwood. Bear in
mind my apartment is on the 2nd floor on the Brownsville Rd side and on the
4th floor from the Lachman Way side. Definitely Pittsburgh.

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > Dwight,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 ).
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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".
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> See:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 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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Herb Brannon
Back In The Burgh !

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