There was a branch of the Straub Brewery at the corner of Liberty and Main, the north end of the Bloomfield Bridge, roughly the site of the current supermarket, seen here: http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
Found it! The "United Motors Corporation" Garage in the background is the buildign near the corner of Liberty and Baum which contained the recently-closed Goodwill Store, thought it looked familiar!
Showing the "Straub" property had already passed intot he ownership of the "Autocar S & S Company" meaning the two grand houses were doomed to a fate as a car lot (which the site still was until very recent plans for redevelopment....
Seems someone with the name Straub had a change of fortune shortly before 1920 and divested themselves of property...
The two corner houses list owners Straub and Guffey, and the third house has not been razed yet to build the garage.
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
There was a branch of the Straub Brewery at the corner of Liberty and Main, the north end of the Bloomfield Bridge, roughly the site of the current supermarket, seen here: http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
By 1923, they were making ice cream, Prohibition, so sad...: http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
But in neither are any of the Straub properties adjacent to a "Guffey" owned lot... Maybe I need to check the directores for the trucking business...
Found it! The "United Motors Corporation" Garage in the background is the buildign near the corner of Liberty and Baum which contained the recently-closed Goodwill Store, thought it looked familiar!
Here is the 1920 directory listing: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi...
And here is the map in 1923: http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
Showing the "Straub" property had already passed intot he ownership of the "Autocar S & S Company" meaning the two grand houses were doomed to a fate as a car lot (which the site still was until very recent plans for redevelopment....
Seems someone with the name Straub had a change of fortune shortly before 1920 and divested themselves of property...
1919 Prohibition perhaps?
And here in 1911:
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
The two corner houses list owners Straub and Guffey, and the third house has not been razed yet to build the garage.
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...
Thanks for the thorough and all the links Matt!