[PRCo] EASTLAND MALL OPENS

[Fred Schneider]

IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT SHOWS CHANGING TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND A CHANGE IN HOW WE LIVE.


http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wcEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ck8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7603%2C4461035

 

Brief summation:

 

Pittsburgh Press, August 28, 1963, page 33

                                                                                         Eastland Mall Opening

 Eastland Shopping Plaza to open  Thursday August 29, 1963.   Billed as largest shopping center in the tri-state region with four anchor stores (Gimbels, Sears, Immels and Penneys) and 52 smaller stores. 

 Located where the East Pittsburgh – McKeesport Boulevard crosses U. S. 30 east of the Westinghouse Bridge, this shopping mall probably sucked a lot of the remaining vitality out of McKeesport, East Pittsburgh, Wilmerding, Irwin and even Jeannette.  One cannot help but wonder how many riders on the 67 and 68 PAT buses go to this mall.