Date: 19 January 1982 1910-EST (Tuesday) From: Steven.Elkind at CMU-10A (X335SE30) To: Harry.Bovik at CMU-10A Subject: Car washes (non-automatic only) Message-Id: <19Jan82 191036 SE30@CMU-10A> Origin: X335SE30 at CMU-10A; 19 Jan 1982 1910-EST NOW FIVE (count 'em -5) car washes in the vicinity(?) I can think of three choices, listed below in ascending order of time from school. 1) Monroeville: Go out to Monroeville. Get off at first M'ville exit, follow rte. 22 until you get to Jonnet building (and Gee Bee dept store) on left; turn left. This is just before the Miracle Mile shopping center. follow this road , branching left always. This is, I believe, the old William Penn highway. Eventually, you will come to the car wash on the left. 1a) (NEW) I saw this one in passing, and as of two weeks ago it was still under construction but apparently 80-90% complete. Get off first Monroeville exit on Parkway, turn left at first light (Rodi Rd.) It's down a ways on the right hand side. FYI, (if such things interest you), there's a Gold Circle Store another mile or so down on left, in the Penn Hills Mall. 2)(about the same time as previous choice): Pleasant Hills. Get to Century III mall. About 1 Mile S of the Mall on rte. 51 is a car wash, on the left. .......The best way to Cent.III mall is !!!NOT!!! through liberty tubes. Go across Greenfield Bridge and go straight through the light, up the hill. Turn right (this is on to Greenfield Ave. (Blvd?)) (alternatively, go across Panther hollow bridge, go right to Blvd of the allies bridge out of park. take the first left after bridge, then turn left again at the stop sign. follow a windy road, go over bridge, and wind up halfway down greenfield ave hill. turn right onto ave.) Go down this avenue until you are about to go under a bridge; turn left at the stoplight instead of going under bridge. This takes you into Hazelwood. Go straight, and then across bridge. Continue as straight as possible (i.e., follow the sign for rte.885 - do not bear right down a ramp.). Turn right at the second light on that side of the river (the first light is right near an abandonned school), and go up the hill. You will go under an overpass, which is actually runway 10/28 of the county airport. If you want to get to the Cent.III mall, go straight through the next light (i.e., go between Sambo's and McDonald's) and follow signs for the mall. I guess that to go to the car wash, your best bet would be to go through the mall parking lot to get to rte. 51 (go left on 51 out of the lot). During non-rush hour times, this is probably faster than going to Monroeville. given the current condition of the Parkway. <> 3) South park- instead of going through light towards McDonalds, turn right onto the divided highway, which is Lebanon Church Rd. at this point. It turns into Brownsville Rd., and continues to South Park and beyond. P.S. - this car wash now apparently closes at 5 pm. 3.) Murrysville: Go out Parkway past first Monroeville exit, second M'ville, and Plum exits, then take Murrysville exit (the last one before the Turnpike). This puts you on 22 east. Follow this a ways. Somewhere past Hardee's is the car wash (on the left). 4.) North: Go E on Fifth to where it turns into Penn. At the light, go sort of straight and down the hill (this is Washington Blvd). Follow Washington, and at its end (the river) turn left and then go over Highland Park Bridge. Once over river, get onto Rte. 28 South. Get off at rte. 8 exit (to Butler). Go north on 8. Somewhere down on right after a few miles there is an ARCO station and automatic car wash. This is a pretty good car wash., better than most automatics. Since a) the gas at the station is cheap, and b) the car wash is cheaper with a fill-up, this is a pretty good deal. Anyway, there is a coin-op (self-wash) car wash a bit further down rte.8 on right, hidden on the other side of a bend in the road. I just added this one because it was closed down last year, and apparently just re-opened. This is the closest coin-op wash, but is the scuzziest (it's only 8 miles from school). In winter, the place becomes positively dangerous, as the owner lets the ice build up to a foot thick on the floor. (and there is a 1ft. deep hole in the middle that you drive your car into, and have real fun getting out of, providing you've survived sliding around on the ice while washing your car). North Park: keep on going out rte. 8, until you get tot Wildwood rd. Turn left and follow to North Park. Don't look for road sign for Wildwood road, but for a sign for North park, near a Stop 'n Go on the right. A couple of miles further on is a Turnpike Entrance. This might be one of the fastest ways to get to the Turnpike if you're going west, and perhaps the fastest way to get to 79 if you're going North. Friendly's ice cream - There's one between wildwood road and turnpike entrance on rte. 8, on left hand side. It's much nicer than Sweet Williams, and a breath of New England fast foodery. Hope this helps. Steve Messages from file DSKB:MAIL.MSG[X335SE30]@CMU-10A on Wednesday, 9 September 1981 at 1604-EDT: 10 + 8 Sep 81 Peter Schwarz closer Friendly's (303) 11 + 9 Sep 81 Jerry Agin Car washes, ice cream (677) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----Message 10 (303 chrs) is---- Date: 8 September 1981 2355-EDT From: Peter Schwarz at CMU-10A Subject: closer Friendly's To: Steven Elkind Origin: C410PS20 at CMU-10A; 9 Sep 1981 0107-EDT There is a closer Friendly's on Freeport Rd. (old Rte. 28) in Fox Chapel, not too far up from the Highland Park Bridge. Peter ----Message 11 (677 chrs) is---- Date: 9 September 1981 1027-EDT From: Jerry.Agin at CMU-10A To: steven elkind at CMU-10A Subject: Car washes, ice cream Message-Id: <09Sep81 102746 JA60@CMU-10A> Origin: R110JA60 at CMU-10A; 9 Sep 1981 1028-EDT There's an automatic car wash on Banksville road (Rte 19) Take Fort Pitt Tunnel, exit on Banksville road, make a u-turn at the second light. There's a Friendly's on Cochran Road in Mt. Lebanon (also Rte 19). Continue past automatic car wash, bear right at Beverly, turn left at Cochran, and it's over the hill. There's a coin-op car wash on Library Road in Castle Shannon. Liberty Tubes, L on Sawmill Run (Rt. 51), R on Library Road (Rt 88).