[PRCo] Re: East Liberty

[Bob Rathke]

Was that the Station Street Hot Dog Shop?  It was near the PRR station in
East Liberty. In the 1950's, they ran commercials on WWSW (970 AM) on the
overnight music show - I assume to  encourage insomniacs to get in their
cars and drive to East Liberty for a hot dog at 4 AM.

The Tea Garden, a Chinese restaurant in Homewood, was another late night
advertiser on WWSW in the 50's.  The Tea Garden which was on Kelly St. -
near PRC's Homewood Shops?

Bob 10/26/04

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
To: "- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Memories


> > "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>
>  > Long drive? For a guy who used to travel from
>  > Lancaster to Pittsburgh to
>  > get a Big Boy hamburger?
>
>
> It is recorded in the archives that Fred traveled to East Liberty, to a
> shop near the Ice Skate Rink, to eat Foot Long Hot Dogs and where, in
> the 1950s, they claimed to have sold over a Million!       Probably long
> gone  --  business went Belly Up when Fred changed to Big Boys and
> stopped eating the Foot-Longs! :-D
>
>
> Jim__Holland
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