Several years ago I was conducting research for a YouTube video I was working on about Patsy Cline. I knew that she had worked in a diner in the Greyhound Bus Depot (there's even a photo of her in uniform), unfortunately I couldn't find any record of that Depot having existed. It wasn't until I met with the owners of G&M Music...those were the folks that sold Patsy her first guitar...that I learned the Depot was adjacent to the original store location at 38 W Boscawen. The father opened the music store in the 1930s and his son (who now runs the shop) told me that they used to live above the old store location. He said that all day and night the buses would pull through the alley and the drivers would leave them running. The fumes would waft into his bedroom. Originally that Depot was a gorgeous old Art Deco building but was stuccoed. It's now the Grace Lutheran Preschool at 16th N Braddock. A Google Street view will show you the old drive thru and the bricked over windows of the son's room. It's amazing to me that this is another location completely lost to time but is so obvious when you know what it was originally designed to be.
Several years ago I was conducting research for a YouTube video I was working on about Patsy Cline. I knew that she had worked in a diner in the Greyhound Bus Depot (there's even a photo of her in uniform), unfortunately I couldn't find any record of that Depot having existed. It wasn't until I met with the owners of G&M Music...those were the folks that sold Patsy her first guitar...that I learned the Depot was adjacent to the original store location at 38 W Boscawen. The father opened the music store in the 1930s and his son (who now runs the shop) told me that they used to live above the old store location. He said that all day and night the buses would pull through the alley and the drivers would leave them running. The fumes would waft into his bedroom. Originally that Depot was a gorgeous old Art Deco building but was stuccoed. It's now the Grace Lutheran Preschool at 16th N Braddock. A Google Street view will show you the old drive thru and the bricked over windows of the son's room. It's amazing to me that this is another location completely lost to time but is so obvious when you know what it was originally designed to be.