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Nostalgia & History > PAAC PCCs Part 5Date: 05/04/16 20:27 PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: MartyBernard These are scans of Roger Puta's slides.
1. PAAC PCC 1604, a #65 MUNHALL - LINCOLN PLACE car on 8th Ave. between Ann St. and McClure St. in Homestead, PA on Sept 1, 1965. This line went out Sunday September 5, 1965. I'm quite happy with how this scan of a dark rainy day slide came out. 2. PAAC PCC 1609, a #65 MUNHALL - LINCOLN PLACE car under Rahkin Bridge at Talbot Ave, in Rankin, PA. The car behind was PCC 1758 on September 1, 1965. 3. PAAC PCC 1654, a #48 ARLINGTON car at South Hills Jct. in Pittsburgh, PA on June 26, 1965. 4. PAAC PCC 1664, a #48 ARLINGTON car approaching P&LE transfer along Smithfield St. in Pittsburgh, PA on September 1, 1965. 5. PAAC PCC 1758, a #67 SWISSDALE RANKIN BRADDOCK car approaching the Rankin Bridge on Talbot Ave, in Rankin, PA on September 1, 1965. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/16 23:14 by MartyBernard. Date: 05/04/16 20:28 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: MartyBernard Date: 05/04/16 20:37 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: robj Number 1 is a gem Marty. Pittsburg as ...............
Bob Jordan Date: 05/04/16 20:42 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: BobP robj Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Number 1 is a gem Marty. Pittsburg as > ............... > > Bob Jordan Agree and brick street no less. Date: 05/04/16 20:44 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: MartyBernard Bobs, Roger was 21 when he took it -- 51 years ago -- a 51-year old Kodachrome. Everybody knows photos taken on dark rainy days are dull. And old Kodachromes turn blue. And who could care about an old beat out PCC car anyway.
Marty Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/16 20:46 by MartyBernard. Date: 05/04/16 21:48 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: EtoinShrdlu >And old Kodachromes turn blue.
Not if it's been processed properly. Ektachrome had a bluish cast, and there was a period of time (late 1960s) when Kodak used inferior dyes which made the images to turn a brownish color. Date: 05/04/16 23:10 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: MartyBernard Look at the scans of old slides posted here that have not had any or much color correction. Maybe 90% are from bluish/purpleish Kodachromes. Kodachrome II in general has survived better that Kodachrome 64. I have found that Ektachormes generally turn pinkish with time.
How the slides were stored, temperature and humidity, make a difference in how much they have changed in color and contrast. Humidity makes a difference and I have found slides with mold growing on them. Yes, the quality of processing makes a difference especially how long the batch of chemicals was in use before the roll was processed. Some people swear that some Kodak labs were consistently better that others. Off-brand slides and off-brand processing in general degrade more, but I have has some good luck with Agfrachrome and Anscochrome. I have also found that, except for an extremely few, all old slides back as far as the early 1960s can be made presentable. I mean the colors are close to correct, the contrast is in control, and the scan is fairly noise and artifact free and rather sharp. I'm not, of course, talking about slides that were way under or over exposed or blurred or out of focus. BTW, mold can often be cleaned off physically and electronically with cloning and speck removal. Marty Bernard Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/16 23:20 by MartyBernard. Date: 05/04/16 23:47 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: mp51w https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne_Brewing_Company
The Duke beer ads on the PCC and on a billboard got me curious. It says they were innovative and used refrigerated box cars to ship their beer. It also mentions the PRR Whitehall branch in the article. Date: 05/05/16 08:45 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: YG Date: 05/05/16 18:25 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: RuleG Thanks, Marty, for posting another great set of Pittsburgh streetcar images.
Eighth Avenue in the first photo was Homestead's main commercial street. Just a couple of blocks to the right was the Pennsylvania Railroad (now Norfolk Southern) and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (now CSX). Going further was US Steel's Homestead works which shut down in 1985. A very large shopping complex occupies the site with a few remnants of the mill such as a set of stacks still extant. There is still some activity on Eighth Avenue, but nothing like what it was 51 years ago shown in the photo. While the activity at the shopping center has not spilled across the tracks to Eighth Avenue, I feel Eighth Avenue is far more interesting. I celebrated my birthday last year at Dorothy #6, a bar and restaurant located near the spot where this photo was taken. It was named after a blast furnace in Duquesne, PA (south of Homestead). Date: 05/07/16 22:02 Re: PAAC PCCs Part 5 Author: EtoinShrdlu >Some people swear that some Kodak labs were consistently better that others.
Page Mill Road (Palo Alto, CA) had the best reputation, and that comes from a friend who in the business 30 years ago. I never got bad resulsts from Page Mill, however the worst results I got were from a Kodak lab in Australia -- the emulsions are starting to disintegrate. I have had some Kodachrome slides experience color shift, but that was because they were in the vicinity of some sort of plastic, the vapors from which got into the dyes in the image. My slides from the early 1950s are still in good shape with regards to color balance (no blue shift to speak of). The one roll of Ektachrome I took in 1968 is another matter; those slides have turned almost brown. |