By Nancy Knisley If we remember an A&P in Ambridge, we probably remember the one story, yellow brick building that ran between 11th and Sherman Streets just below the west end of the National Electric factory, currently the site of the Trinity School for Ministry. This post is not about that A&P. It's about the A&P with an interior that looked like this: By Bob Giles Chuck practiced his new pitch for hours. He was always inventing something. He called it the “Dying Swan." My other brother called it the “Butterfly”. I remember it as the “Flutterball." By Nancy Knisley
Charlie's Sterling Service was on the southeast corner of 14th and Merchant Streets at 1398 Merchant Street. In the 1960s, Sala's Quaker State Service operated at that location. [update July 28, 2014: Sala's Quaker State was owned by Irvin "Buss" Sala who operated the station until 1982 when he retired.] By Nancy Knisley
Although Baden's Northern Lights Shoppers City, as the shopping center was then formally called, opened its first stores on November 1, 1956, the formal "Official" Grand Opening Celebration with even more stores began on June 12, 1957. |
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