Comments on: Road Trip: Latrobe Pennsylvania and What That ’33′ Means on Rolling Rock Bottles

By: Carole Cohen

Carole Cohen — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:47:26 +0000

Wow small world, Bill. We passed Timken on Saturday. You make sense about the train I’m going to check that out…the train would have been a prime source of travel for sure.

Gee and here I thought it was all pure spring water that went into beer lol.

Did you know any Yaniks or Grotes? Those are the cousins I visited this weekend!

By: Bill Callahan

Bill Callahan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:40:37 +0000

Hey Carole,

I spent my high school years (and college summers) in Latrobe, walked past the brewery every day for three years, worked one of those college summers in the grinding shop at Latrobe (now Timken) Steel, and almost went to St. Vincent. But I never heard an explanation of “33″. Then again I never drank Rolling Rock, being too familiar with the color and smell of the “clear mountain spring water” in Loyalhanna Creek.

Your theory sounds pretty good. I wonder if it was a mileage marker on the railroad line — it runs pretty straight from Latrobe into Pittsburgh.

Who were you visiting?

Bill Callahan’s last blog post..Wells Fargo ?open? to Fed-assisted NCB takeover

By: Carole Cohen

Carole Cohen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:49:19 +0000

Thanks Elaine it was a pretty area and the cardinals were singing full throttle….a sure sign they are farther along in the Spring of things than we are (the grass was literally greener too). lol

By: Elaine Reese

Elaine Reese — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:12:20 +0000

I didn’t know that Rolling Rock was no longer made in Latrobe … but then I’m not a beer drinker.

That’s a neat story about your visit. And I’m not going to challenge your ’33′.