<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>When I was growing up a big treat was to go to the Isaly's store near our house. One of my many favorites from them was a vanilla milkshake. They knew how to make them. One "perk" of going to get one at Isaly's was that all of the milkshake would never fit into the paper "take-out" cup. It was always the policy at our neighborhood Isaly's that the clerk would pour the excess into a glass and tell me to finish it off. A real treat back then.<br>
<br></div>I now work for Allegheny County on Perrysville Avenue. For lunch, last Tuesday, I decided to go to the Isaly's on Perry Highway near Center Avenue in West View. It was close, I could get the chip-chop sandwich and a vanilla milkshake to go and still have time to finish it back at the workplace. So I ordered and they began frying the chip-chop and the milkshake machine sprang to life making that familiar high pitched buzzing sound. I was looking at the scores of photographs on the wall of this Isaly's of old West View Park, the PRCo streetcars and other things when the lady at the counter called me over. She said, "Here drink this up, it all won't fit into the take out cup". It was deja vu, all over again. <br>
<br></div>This Isaly's is very much worth going to. Still the same outside storefront and still the same counter with round stools and the same booths on the opposite side of the store. Same food cases with Isaly's meat and cheese products and really great photos on the walls. Well worth going to West View to see and enjoy.<br>
<br></div>Also, much to my surprise, is much of the original PRCo/PATransit Route 10-West View trolley tracks are still hanging around. The place where the cars left Perrysville Avenue, past Bascombe Street, is still there with the rails embedded in cobblestone. Much of the north end of that section of private-right-of-way for the 10 and 11 was taken with the construction of the Parkway North, aka I-279. Then, just past Ross Bus Garage the side-of-the-road tracks can be seen gleaming in the sun just even with the grass growing around them. This goes on all the way to Center Avenue. I have yet to drive down Center Avenue to see what still remains.<br>
<br></div>Like I said, it's worth the trip to see the right-of-way and visit Isaly's. <br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><b>Herb Brannon</b><br></div><b>In Pittsburgh...........A City and<br>
</b></div><b>..........................A State Of Mind<br><br></b></div><b>Let's Go Bucs<br></b></div><b>Let's Go Steelers<br></b></div>
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