Tube City Almanac

July 17, 2007

Here We Grow Again!

Category: default || By jt3y



A 1972 Yellow Pages ad for Ed Sigmund Moving ... not Sigmund Transfer, which has been a McKeesport institution since 1910. Ed Sigmund Moving was a separate company; I suspect that Ed Sigmund was a member of the same family and struck out on his own.

By the way, I swear that Ed Sigmund Moving had a pink truck. In fact, I can remember ads in the newspaper and phone book saying "Look for our big, pink truck." Can anyone confirm that, or have years of Stoney's consumption finally killed my few remaining brain cells?

Anyway, all of this is a complicated way of saying that the transition to the new URL at tubecityonline.com is underway. There are still a few bugs in the system, and for now, all content is being mirrored on the Dementia server. We'll get it worked out eventually.

Make sure to visit tomorrow for a big announcement about another cockamamie project exciting feature that I'll be developing at Tube City Online in the months ahead. It includes some new, exclusive content.

Please try to hold your excitement in check.






Your Comments are Welcome!

We got into this discussion some 4 or 5 years ago on our forum. During the 50s I lived around the corner from their house where they parked the trucks on the lot facing Stewart and saw them almost every day. They certainly did have at least one pink truck.
Mr B (URL) - July 29, 2007



Ed Sigmund was the son of Dutch Sigmund who started Sigmund Transfer in 1910. After his death his daughter Ann Sigmund-Camic ran Sigmund Transfer and Ed Sigmund,his son, started Ed Sigmund moving which did have pink trucks. My understanding is they had a daughter that died young or at birth. The trucks were painted pink in her memory. My brother and I worked for Sigmund Transfer. When we would see the pink truck coming down the road we would laugh and say “Here comes the PINK PANTHER” I eventually bought Sigmund Transfer and Ed Sigmund Moving in the mid 1980’s and did away with the pink trucks. To this day I still get callers who ask if we are “the ones with the pink trucks?”
Matt Frinsko - November 12, 2008



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