[PRCo] Re: Good Old Days

[John Swindler]

Concerning shopping in Wilkinsburg, there was a hobby/model railroad store 
on Wood St., a sporting goods store on Penn that carried model trains at 
Christmas time, and a small store on Rebecca that carried some Lionel.  
Bought a Rock Island box car there in mid-late 50s - last Lionel item 
purchased.

Wilkinsburg also had four (?) movie theaters. Three were on Wood St., and I 
remember the Rowland theater still in business and other two closed up.  
Again, late 50s - about time WTAE and ???? joined KDKA.

I would have been around 10-12 at the time, so memory is hazy.  But it was 
still a safe place to walk, with plenty of stores.

John




>From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Good Old Days
>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:08:52 -0400
>
>I spent my Sunday mornings, whether I liked it or not, in Mellon's
>Stairway to Heaven in East Liberty.  I have some other memories of
>that subset of Pittsburgh.   Remember the Pennsy station?   And about
>two or three blocks west of Highland on the south side of Penn Avenue
>was a small model railroad shop ... used to buy Strombecker wooden
>models in there.   I'm going back to the days before Monroeville when
>people went to S'Liberty or Wilkinsburg to shop.  Remember the big
>Sears Roebuck store on Highland Avenue?   I'm told there were also
>seven movie theaters in East Liberty.
>
>On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:45 PM, robert simpson wrote:
>
> > Was looking through some old papers and found my old membership
> > card for the Lexington Roller Rink in East Liberty!
>
>

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