[PRCo] Re: EASTLAND MALL OPENS

[Derrick Brashear]

Pretty sure it's a flat lot now. Benderson gave up.

Derrick


On Sep 5, 2010, at 1:05 PM, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> From a trip through this area some 7-8 years ago, isn't this one of the 'dead malls'???????
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>> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
>> Subject: [PRCo] EASTLAND MALL OPENS
>> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 11:34:54 -0400
>> To: mrb190 at pitt.edu; trams2 at comcast.net; Pittsburgh-Railways at Dementia.Org
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>> IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT SHOWS CHANGING TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND A CHANGE IN HOW WE LIVE.
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>> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wcEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ck8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7603%2C4461035
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>> Brief summation:
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>> Pittsburgh Press, August 28, 1963, page 33
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>>                                                                                         Eastland Mall Opening
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>> 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. 
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>> 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.
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