View of Salvage & Storage Co. with many broken windows caused by the 33rd Street Sewer Explosion. A sign out front reads "Good news for you Mrs. Housewife: Our Resident Wagons will Collect your Old Newspapers, Magazines, Rags, Rubber, Etc. - and give you in exchange valuable household necessities." A sign on the other end of the building has a similar message addressed to "Mr. Businessman."
Seemed a pretty ostentatious address for a rag and bone operation... Wondering about it's previous use, I found it listed as the Power House for the Citizen's Traction Company 13 years earlier... http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
So are the current power substation on the site and the current scrap yard across the street legacies of these businesses?
Here is a map showing the Salvage & Storage Company site:
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
Seemed a pretty ostentatious address for a rag and bone operation... Wondering about it's previous use, I found it listed as the Power House for the Citizen's Traction Company 13 years earlier... http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
So are the current power substation on the site and the current scrap yard across the street legacies of these businesses?
I would guess so!