[PRCo] Re: Memories

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

Does anyone travel route 88?  My last recollection is that the W-roofed
building is still there housing a nursery or something.

BTW Fred, traffic would not be the only thing holding up PCCs on the
West End circle these days - I do believe the circle is no more...

Regards,
Ponce.



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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
Derrick J Brashear
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 2:27 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Memories

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> That's the second time today for me that Winky's name has resurfaced.
A
> friend in the advertising business was telling me that he used to do
work
> for the company...he said a man became president who did everything he
could
> to cheat the patron, then wondered why the firm failed.  No one else
in the
> company was that way, but leadership sets the path.

But their mark, like others, is still etched in western PA. Several 
generations of Winky's architecture; A few of the old W-roofed buildings

are still around, and the later flat-roofed building with the outlying 
posts at the front corners, I know at least 2 (Swissvale, an Arbys now, 
and New Brighton, where route 18 splits from route 65 to cross the
bridge 
to Beaver Falls, might still be a pizza joint). The (newest?) style
looked 
more like a McDonalds, brick with a bit of glass and a sloped roof, one 
survives on William Penn Highway at about Trafford Road in Murrysville.

I can pick em out passing by, and I might have been in a Winkys one time

when I was old enough to remember.

As to the exposed tracks in Munhall, they were paved over when I
deposited 
my wife at work today.