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From: "Paul R DOT Tupaczewski" paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 13:19:11 -0400
Subject: Graffiti at Mountain Station (was:: (erielack) Steamtown Images--May 22, 2016 (A0523-A0525, B0523-B0525 and X0523-X0525) IDs)
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> The Mountain Station pedestrian bridge is notable in one other way...from the late 60s the WB side had a concrete wall (the steps
to
> the bridge) with graffiti on it with the EL logo ()...PHOEBE SNOW DIED AN EEEERIE DEATH!! From time to time someone would
> replenish the chalk, and later paint. The graffiti would outlast the bridge, which I mentioned was removed about 1980. For a
number
> of years, after the bridge was removed, the stairs--and the wall--remained so that you could walk up to the first landing
(parallel with
> the tracks) and then down the stairs towards Mountainhouse Road. The wall--and the graffiti--finally came down, I'm guessing,
> sometime in the late 90s.

Here's a photo of the graffiti taken when it was fresh in April 1969. I know who did it originally (not me, as it predated my birth
by 2 years) and it was an expression of his dismay of the new "Erie-based" management." Apparently, he got a lot of kudos from
passing crews who read the message...

- Paul



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