[PRCo] Re: Good Old Days

[robert simpson]

Ed,
   
  I remember the Sears store on Highland Avenue very well and also 6 volt batteries in cars.  We had a 1950 Chevvy which had one.  Don't remember the Pennsy station in E. Liberty but do remember the station in Shadyside just below Shadyside Hospital.  They supposedly had a model train exhibit but it was always closed.  There were several theaters in E. Liberty but their names escape me.  I remember one large theater, the Enright,  on Penn Ave near Negley.  It had a pipe organ that was often played on weekends.  In later years, it stopped showing movies and had boxing matches.  Visited E. Liberty about 4 years ago and was very disappointed to see so much has vanished.  Also remember a high-rise building (maybe 15 stories or so) on the corner of Highland and Penn Avenues which was demolished in the 1960's for some unknown reason.  Also visited Wilkinsburg where I once worked on Swissvale Ave.  Not much left!  Used to travel there by streetcar from Shadyside and remember the
 line was on Fifth Avenue which turned onto Penn Ave but can't remember the number - help me....was it the 75 Wilkinsburg?
   
  All we have are our memories to share with others.
   
  Robert Simpson
  from Krazy California
  
"Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
  A battery charger that hangs in my garage was purchased at the East Liberty
Sears store about 1955 or 56. We had to drive out there to get it because
the Dormont store didn't have it in stock. It charges either 6 or 12 volt
batteries. We "needed" one because the auto industry switched to 12v
electrical systems in 1955, and in case the lights on our '55 Chevy wagon
ever got left on, we wouldn't have been able to charge the attendant dead
battery with the 6v charger previously on hand.

If I recall, it was a Friday night that we went, and the store was quite
busy. It was also a long ride from the countryside of northern Washington
County.

The charger still works.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 7:09 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Good Old Days


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!