[PRCo] Re: [Fwd: Pittsburgh-Some Place Special]

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The restaurant in Bentleyville was bought for Lord 2x4's new, young wife (in
addition to the ice cream emporium in downtown Bentleyville).  Neither was a
subsidiary of the lumber works, though the now-ex new, young wife was once a
secretary at 84's corporate HQ.  I suspect that Debbie owns both culinary
abominations at this point.  The restaurant is in a remodeled church, and
has a large statue of a suit of armor outside.  This was in honor of his
majesty, who some years back felt compelled to purchase a vacant English
lordship for a large sum of money.

Joe's son and grandson are neighbors of mine...the son has a physical
disability of some sort, so the elder Hardy kicked him out of 84 Lumber
because he couldn't be tough enough, replacing him with his foul-mouthed
sister.  Joe's grandson is an up-and-coming developer whose latest project
obliterated the Washington R/W down the street from me.

Hardy a day goes by that I don't wax eloquent about these fine folks.

Ed

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: [Fwd: Pittsburgh-Some Place Special]



Well now we understand why the lumber is warped.  Planes need wing warp to
bank
into a turn.  Or at least the Wright Flyer used that technique instead of
separate ailerons on the wings.

You'll also like the King of the Hill restaurant in Bentleyville (some
subsidiary of 84 Lumber).  We only ate there once ... food was average and I
sat
for an hour plus in a draft on a cold night.

Tom Phillips wrote:

> I have on occasion bought a straight board at 84 Lumber -- but it warped
> on the way home!
>
> I don't know for certain but I always suspected that the Ryans got the
> Hardy's involved in 84 Lumber -- they were great boyhood buddies -- they
did
> alot of playing around with model airplanes in the early '40's.  I didn't
> know the eldest Hardy son but I did know Norman --and Bob was in my
homeroom
> class in HS -- as I recall Norman and his son were killed in a plane crash
> in
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