[PRCo] PRCo 55A Rankin Side

[Fred Schneider]

Is that where the Mexicans go?    I'm smiling but I am pulling your chain a little Herb.   Actually, some of those places can be pretty good.   

There is a Giant in Lancaster, built on the site of the former carbarn, which has things that none of their other stores have.   Why?  Because it is in the city.   By wife used to teach in a city junior high school a block from that store and described her classes as one-third white, one-third black and one-third Hispanic.   And that Giant store tries to cater to all of them.   

My favorite, Herb, is a small chain of three stores run by a local family.   They have one small store (like an old A&P) and two fairly large stores, big enough to stock anything.   The large one at the northern boundary of this township is surprising.   The township in the 1950s was 100% white and so was the town of Lititz to the north.   But things are changing.   And so are tastes.   In 1950 if you were Polish, Italian, Black, they didn't want you.   Now that store has a whole island of Italian foods brought in from DeLallo's in Jeannette.   
There is another island and a frozen food case for just Indian foods.   You want Mexican?   Same thing.   You want Jewish white fish salad?   They've got it too.   Damn, I'm making myself hungry.


On Jul 11, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
> 
>> Derrick,
>> I think the South Side Giant Eagle has the best selection of products. That
>> store serves a much more diverse group of customers so, not wanting to miss
>> a dollar in sales, stocks the shelves for maximum profit. It's my number
>> one choice. Not that hard to get to from my place. Four blocks north on
>> Brownsville, right on Becks Run Road and all the way down the mountain to
>> Carson, left on Carson (the really good frozen custard place is on that
>> corner) then down to 20th and a right turn down to Giant Eagle.
> 
> 
> Sure. I biked it the other direction (up Becks Run) last week :)
> 
> make the jog to Wharton and up to the store. Sounds long, but it's not. I
>> wish they had built a street under Birmingham Bridge to take some of the
>> through traffic off Carson.
>> 
> 
> PlanPGH's MovePGH plan expects to restore the street grid under the bridge
> in either 1st or 2nd 5 year window.
> 
> 
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