<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><DIV aria-label="Compose body">I took the attached photo of the Isaly's store in Evans City in August, 1956 while pulling out of a parking space. Not the greatest photo I ever took.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000; FONT-STYLE: normal" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><B>From: </B>hrbraninpgh@gmail.com<BR><B>To: </B>"List, Pittsburgh" <pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org><BR><B>Sent: </B>Saturday, August 30, 2014 7:51:02 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [PRCo] Isaly's -- Then & Now<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>The West View store does sell the same products. The actual company name of<BR>the current Isaly's franchise in West View is I.S.A.L.Y.S., which they<BR>translate into I Shall Always Love You Sincerely. That way they could keep<BR>the name. The products have always been available through a food<BR>distribution company named Penn Mac located on Smallman Street in the Strip<BR>District in the city. There is also a store in Turtle Creek. Check out the<BR>website <www.isalys.com> and you will see that the company does exist<BR>today. On that website you may sign up to receive email news items from the<BR>company headquarters in Evans City, PA and you may also click a link to<BR>"like" Isaly's on Facebook. I guess Wikipedia will never come up to the<BR>standards of Americana or Britannica. www.isalys.com<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Here is a paragraph from the Penn Mac (Pennsylvania Macaroni) website:<BR>The one and only *Isaly's Chipped Chopped Ham* - Yinz know this is the best<BR>of the best! Sliced "Pittsburgh Style," and we ship in a authentic Isaly's<BR>boat, then we ship in a plastic container so it doesn't get smashed. (end<BR>quote)<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Thank FWS III for today's "buzzkill".<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider@comcast.net><BR>wrote:<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>> Isaly's does not exist. The family sold the name. Read this:<BR>><BR>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaly's<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> On Aug 30, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Dwight Long wrote:<BR>><BR>> ><BR>> > Amazing. I did not know any still existed. We had one in my home town<BR>> of Beaver—it’s long gone. My last memory of Isaly’s was eating lunch at<BR>> the one in Homestead in the very last year of the trams in that town.<BR>> ><BR>> > I will be in the area in a couple of weeks, but will be at Arden on<BR>> Friday and Beaver/Newell, W.Va. on Saturday. Do you know of any that are<BR>> open down that way? I doubt I would have time to go to West View although<BR>> I agree it would be a pleasant return to yesteryear.<BR>> ><BR>> > Dwight<BR>> ><BR>> > From: Herb Brannon<BR>> > Sent: Saturday, 30 August, 2014 12:33<BR>> > To: Western PA Trolley discussion<BR>> > Subject: [PRCo] Isaly's -- Then & Now<BR>> > When 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<BR>> was<BR>> > always the policy at our neighborhood Isaly's that the clerk would pour<BR>> 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<BR>> 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<BR>> 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<BR>> 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<BR>> 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<BR>> 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<BR>> 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 Steelers*<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > -------------- next part --------------<BR>> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>> > URL:<BR>> http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20140830/01b4a8c8/attachment.html<BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<BR>> > Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>> > https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > -------------- next part --------------<BR>> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>> > URL:<BR>> http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20140830/08ba8309/attachment.html<BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<BR>> > Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>> > https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<BR>> Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>> https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<BR>><BR>
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