tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267959830107924979.post3026713954859760571..comments2023-10-06T09:47:58.468-04:00Comments on theNEWK - theNEWK.com - New Kensington - Pa. - Pennsylvania - 15068: Huge Bed, No SheetztheNEWKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13980872124095461552noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267959830107924979.post-64599035791525984452009-12-15T13:15:01.608-05:002009-12-15T13:15:01.608-05:00Not sure why my previous comment didn't post, ...Not sure why my previous comment didn't post, but I wanted to remark that this is an interesting idea. I grew up not far from Crossroads Plaza in LBC, and I remember (ahem!) when Prizant's was a Del Farm Supermarket, circa the late 60s and early 70s.<br /><br />Also got a big kick out of your comment about Lower Burrell as a city being somewhat of a prima donna. Yeah, I know the attitude (I still hear it from my sister-in-law because I grew up there), but I honestly never understood why. As I kid, I always wondered why it was a city at all since it didn't have what I considered any real city did have - a downtown. Sure, we had Hillcrest Shopping Center, but in my mind, it was definitely a second-string act compared to downtown New Ken in its heyday.<br /><br />I used to love going to downtown New Ken on shopping trips almost every Saturday with my mom and aunt. I loved the sights, the sounds, the ordering of a burger, fries and cherry phosphate drink at Murphy's lunch counter, the whole experience. Then we'd return home to Lower Burrell, which was ... what - a suburb? a bedroom community? a couple of former farms with random collections of houses scattered all around? - a place that didn't get sidewalks on Leechburg Rd. until 1972. It's a nice quiet place, sure, and I'll always have warm and sentimental feelings about my childhood home, but I'm here to tell you as a former LBC resident - there ain't *anything* to envy about it!<br /><br />To look at LBC now, of course, is to see the failure of a complete lack of urban planning. It was questionable enough when there was some semblance of a shopping area, but now with JC Penney's move to the Mills and Montgomery Ward's bankruptcy, it could make more sense for Sheetz to build their mega-center there.Lizzy_Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12781437083993106307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267959830107924979.post-36071876697717414272009-12-15T00:21:16.581-05:002009-12-15T00:21:16.581-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lizzy_Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12781437083993106307noreply@blogger.com