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Vintage photos of:
September 1943. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bringing baggage from a bus." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Recently, flying home non-stop from Boston to San Francisco...
It felt exactly like we remember being treated as a Bus Passenger in the 1960's!
in a dark, sort of gloomy way. A bus station in a dark, gritty downtown terminal.
You can almost smell it.
The bus may be Columbus bound but that big hotel in the background is the old Fort Pitt Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[Thankyou! - Dave]
Looking at the sign on the building behind, that may be the Fort Hayes Hotel which is long gone.
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