Saturday afternoon, Anna and Steve and I drove up to see Aunt Linda and Uncle Frank. You might remember Uncle Frank and his 1955 Ford Pick-Up Truck post Uncle Frank was in my People at Work show. He is a master at restoring vintage vehicles.
Here he’s showing Steve the interior. Steve loved getting behind the wheel.
Here’s his 1933 Plymouth
That’s what Erika said as Maura (14) took this photograph. Maura texted the pic and asked me “do you know what this is?”
Thanks Maura. Another fun guest blog photo.
Here’s a post on fire hydrants https://rutheh.com/2022/02/18/fire-hydrant/
Unable to find an online presence for this business, you’ll have to dial the number on the back of the truck.
That is if you’ve got grease you need to be removed. I envision them sucking out oily grease from restaurant kitchens?
I would have happily added their link to this post. I was behind the truck at the stop sign and snapped a fast pic of the unusual truck.
Definitely looked like an oil truck. The musical Grease kept coming up in my search.
I was parked on Butler Street in Lawrenceville.
My phone in hand.
A truck pulled up to the red light alongside my car -and stopped. I felt a presence. Looked up and out the driver’s window.
Oh, hello there!
Light turned green. The chef appeared. The truck pulled away into the flow of traffic.
At the marketplatz- plastic chicken on top of the truck. No question what’s being sold here. (Apologies Stef, don’t look)
Wednesday evening, I came out of the restaurant to this scene.
Liberty Avenue and 36th Street. All surrounding roads were closed due to night paving.
Had to walk a few blocks to Penn Avenue so Steve could pick me up.
William Penn Highway on the way to the crafts store Pat Catan’s in Murraysville.
After I bought the couple of items I needed, I had to drive and turn around and come back so I could photograph this sign. There’s a median in the middle of the road and LOTS of traffic so it was a bit of an effort but I knew I wouldn’t be this way again in the near future.
This location is near the Pennsylvania Turnpike Entrance/Exit.
The motel is old school in appearance and it would be nice to include the sign AND the motel itself but too dangerous to shoot from the highway itself so pulled into their parking lot. There was a lot of truck traffic.
Here is a slice of the motel taken out the passenger window.
And then later in the afternoon what did I see in my neighborhood?
A GOOGLE car with a big camera mounted the top, driving down an alley way off of Bryant Street.
Collecting images for Street View? Here is information on how the photos are turned into Street View.
I don’t know. You can sure see them coming. By the time I got the camera to my eye they were going.
Headed in a different direction.
I wonder how much the camera costs that is on the top of the car? I looked up LIDAR camera technology.
Above view is the cropped version of the photograph below.
By the way, that sky is a true blue sky which is rare in our city. They say we have just 59 sunny days a year.
Well, this was one of them. Seriously hot, too.
Millbrae Way is the name of the alley shown and it’s near the historic marker of the Billy Eckstine home on Bryant Street. Born in 1914-Died- 1993. I just went to look up his grave and he was cremated and ashes given to a family member. There are many famous graves in Pittsburgh.
How I went from the signage at the East Exit Motel, to Google camera car to famous people buried in Pittsburgh I’m not sure so will close and post.