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

[Herb Brannon]

There are still thirty (30) operating Gulf Oil stations in metro
Pittsburgh. The majority of them are within the city limits or the first
ring of suburbs. The one two blocks from my apartment building still pumps
the gasoline for you and does auto repairs. It's located at 2532
Brownsville Road.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:30 PM, D Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways <
pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 -----
> > >
> > > From: "Matthew R via Pittsburgh-railways Barry" <
> > pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> > > To: "Western PA Trolley discussion (
> > pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org)" <
> > pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> > > 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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