[PRCo] Isaly's -- Then & Now

Sun Aug 31 13:58:24 EDT 2014

Dwight,

As far as I know there are two Isaly's remaining. One is the West View
store and the other is in Turtle Creek. These are the only two I know of in
the Pittsburgh area.
I have included two photos of the Turtle Creek store.

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> 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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> >
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> >
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> >
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