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

Mon Apr 8 23:53:05 EDT 2013

Right the first time. Today Gulf is just another convenience store, probably owned/franchised by Cumberland Farms located in New England.  The "real" Gulf Oil disappeared when it was merged into Chevron (?) around 1984/5 (?)   Most of the "real" Gulf retail gas stations were eventually rebranded Chevron.
 Chevron sold the North American license to Gulf Oil logo and some other products to Cumberland Farms about a decade ago.   The current Gulf brand is used for marketing purposes.      > From: hrbran at cavtel.net
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:40:58 -0400
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Facebook page for posting photos of old andabandonedbuildings in Western Pa.
> 
> 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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