[PRCo] Smithfield Street Bridge Closed - September 1966 - Tenth Street Bridge Used as Detour

[D Brashear]

T Boone Pickens, Mesa Petroleum. 1984ish.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Fred Schneider via Pittsburgh-railways <
pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> wrote:

> Bob:
>
> I know that railfans are interested mostly in railways and the other
> things wash off their backs.   But I must offer congratulations for you're
> having gotten another piece of old Pittsburgh history into the picture,
> i.e. the Gulf filling station.
>
> Without researching it, I could not tell you when it was that it vanished
> as an independent oil company.   I only recall that someone tried to buy it
> and Gulf objected.   Chevron came charging in on a white horse with Gulf's
> blessing to save it.  But Chevron didn't save it.   They kept what they
> wanted and sold off the rest.    The original name?   It came from the Gulf
> of Mexico.
>
> fws
>
>
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> On Dec 3, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Bob Rathke via Pittsburgh-railways wrote:
>
> > I photographed the Carson St. re-routing on several of those weekends in
> September and October, 1966 - at various locations including South 10th
> St., the Smithfield St. Bridge and 2nd Avenue.  Here's one of the slides,
> looking north at Carson and 10th on 10/23/66.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > From: "Matthew R via Pittsburgh-railways Barry" <
> pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> > To: "Western PA Trolley discussion (
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> > Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:40:39 AM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Smithfield Street Bridge Closed - September 1966 - Tenth
> Street Bridge Used as Detour
> >
> > Good thing that the Tenth Street Bridge was still streetcar-operational
> in September 1966 when the Smithfield Street Bridge had to be closed for
> "six Sundays."  I think one of you had some jpegs of this unique
> operation.  Can just imagine taking a 42 Dormont by way of the Tenth Street
> Bridge and back-tracking to the South Hills Trolley Tunnel.
> >
> >
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ap1RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dWwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2435%2C1895145
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> >
> > Matt
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