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<DIV><FONT size=4>Amazing. I did not know any still existed. We had
one in my home town of Beaver—it’s long gone. My last memory of Isaly’s
was eating lunch at the one in Homestead in the very last year of the trams in
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I will be in the area in a couple of weeks, but will be at
Arden on Friday and Beaver/Newell, W.Va. on Saturday. Do you know of any
that are open down that way? I doubt I would have time to go to West View
although I agree it would be a pleasant return to yesteryear.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=hrbraninpgh@gmail.com
href="mailto:hrbraninpgh@gmail.com">Herb Brannon</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, 30 August, 2014 12:33</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [PRCo] Isaly's -- Then & Now</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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I was growing up a big treat was to go to the Isaly's store near our<BR>house.
One of my many favorites from them was a vanilla milkshake. They<BR>knew how to
make them. One "perk" of going to get one at Isaly's was that<BR>all of the
milkshake would never fit into the paper "take-out" cup. It was<BR>always the
policy at our neighborhood Isaly's that the clerk would pour the<BR>excess into
a glass and tell me to finish it off. A real treat back then.<BR><BR>I now work
for Allegheny County on Perrysville Avenue. For lunch, last<BR>Tuesday, I
decided to go to the Isaly's on Perry Highway near Center Avenue<BR>in West
View. It was close, I could get the chip-chop sandwich and a<BR>vanilla
milkshake to go and still have time to finish it back at the<BR>workplace. So I
ordered and they began frying the chip-chop and the<BR>milkshake machine sprang
to life making that familiar high pitched buzzing<BR>sound. I was looking at the
scores of photographs on the wall of this<BR>Isaly's of old West View Park, the
PRCo streetcars and other things when<BR>the lady at the counter called me over.
She said, "Here drink this up, it<BR>all won't fit into the take out cup".
It was deja vu, all over again.<BR><BR>This Isaly's is very much worth going to.
Still the same outside storefront<BR>and still the same counter with round
stools and the same booths on the<BR>opposite side of the store. Same food cases
with Isaly's meat and cheese<BR>products and really great photos on the walls.
Well worth going to West<BR>View to see and enjoy.<BR><BR>Also, much to my
surprise, is much of the original PRCo/PATransit Route<BR>10-West View trolley
tracks are still hanging around. The place where the<BR>cars left Perrysville
Avenue, past Bascombe Street, is still there with the<BR>rails embedded in
cobblestone. Much of the north end of that section of<BR>private-right-of-way
for the 10 and 11 was taken with the construction of<BR>the Parkway North, aka
I-279. Then, just past Ross Bus Garage the<BR>side-of-the-road tracks can be
seen gleaming in the sun just even with the<BR>grass growing around them. This
goes on all the way to Center Avenue. I<BR>have yet to drive down Center Avenue
to see what still remains.<BR><BR>Like I said, it's worth the trip to see the
right-of-way and visit Isaly's.<BR><BR>-- <BR>*Herb Brannon*<BR><BR>*In
Pittsburgh...........A City and *<BR><BR><BR>*..........................A State
Of Mind*<BR><BR>*Let's Go Bucs*<BR><BR>*Let's Go
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