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

[D Brashear]

Basically where the carhouse was.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbraninpgh at gmail.com> wrote:

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