[PRCo] Isaly's -- Then & Now

[Dwight Long]

Hey, I read Brian Butko’s book on the company, and that is what I recalled as well.  But there is, per Herb, a store in West View (any others???) that apparently is maintaining the old traditions in a satisfactory manner.  

American Airlines does not exist anymore either—but US Scare bought the name and is going to use it in preference to their own.

When D&RGW bought Southern Pacific, Anschutz elected to use the better known (maybe!!!) SP name and so renamed the surviving company that.

It happens all the time.  The key is whether the person or company using the old name is maintaining the old standards, traditions, etc.  Herb’s report suggests the one in West View (is it an individual outfit or part of a chain?) is doing so.

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Saturday, 30 August, 2014 20:35
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Isaly's -- Then & Now
Isaly's does not exist.   The family sold the name.   Read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaly's



On Aug 30, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Dwight Long wrote:

> 
> Amazing.  I did not know any still existed.  We had one in my home town of Beaver—it’s long gone.  My last memory of Isaly’s was eating lunch at the one in Homestead in the very last year of the trams in that town.
> 
> I will be in the area in a couple of weeks, but will be at Arden on Friday and Beaver/Newell, W.Va. on Saturday.  Do you know of any that are open down that way?  I doubt I would have time to go to West View although I agree it would be a pleasant return to yesteryear.
> 
> Dwight
> 
> From: Herb Brannon 
> Sent: Saturday, 30 August, 2014 12:33
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
> Subject: [PRCo] Isaly's -- Then & Now
> When I was growing up a big treat was to go to the Isaly's store near our
> house. One of my many favorites from them was a vanilla milkshake. They
> knew how to make them. One "perk" of going to get one at Isaly's was that
> all of the milkshake would never fit into the paper "take-out" cup. It was
> always the policy at our neighborhood Isaly's that the clerk would pour the
> excess into a glass and tell me to finish it off. A real treat back then.
> 
> I now work for Allegheny County on Perrysville Avenue. For lunch, last
> Tuesday, I decided to go to the Isaly's on Perry Highway near Center Avenue
> in West View. It was close, I could get the chip-chop sandwich and a
> vanilla milkshake to go and still have time to finish it back at the
> workplace. So I ordered and they began frying the chip-chop and the
> milkshake machine sprang to life making that familiar high pitched buzzing
> sound. I was looking at the scores of photographs on the wall of this
> Isaly's of old West View Park, the PRCo streetcars and other things when
> the lady at the counter called me over. She said, "Here drink this up, it
> all won't fit into the take out cup".  It was deja vu, all over again.
> 
> This Isaly's is very much worth going to. Still the same outside storefront
> and still the same counter with round stools and the same booths on the
> opposite side of the store. Same food cases with Isaly's meat and cheese
> products and really great photos on the walls. Well worth going to West
> View to see and enjoy.
> 
> Also, much to my surprise, is much of the original PRCo/PATransit Route
> 10-West View trolley tracks are still hanging around. The place where the
> cars left Perrysville Avenue, past Bascombe Street, is still there with the
> rails embedded in cobblestone. Much of the north end of that section of
> private-right-of-way for the 10 and 11 was taken with the construction of
> the Parkway North, aka I-279. Then, just past Ross Bus Garage the
> side-of-the-road tracks can be seen gleaming in the sun just even with the
> grass growing around them. This goes on all the way to Center Avenue. I
> have yet to drive down Center Avenue to see what still remains.
> 
> Like I said, it's worth the trip to see the right-of-way and visit Isaly's.
> 
> -- 
> *Herb Brannon*
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