re: #47 ckkatz

Sorry, the mouse scrolling suddenly stopped. And it was a while before I was able to get it working again…

Ah yes, Litchfield Towers. Iirc, I was on the 6th floor of Tower C in 1975-76.

The ‘Towers’ were three circular 20-some story dormatories, A, B,and C. (Alpha Babbo and Comet?) In the 1960’s and 1970’s, the men lived on the lower floors. And to ‘protect’ them, the ladies were on the upper floors.

Of course, the power to the elevators tended to go out with alarming frequency. Which meant that the ladies, basically, had to plan for a whole day in order to minimize how many times they had to climb the 20-some flights of stairs to their room.

I am trying to remember where Frankie Gustines Restaurant was. (Iirc, he actually had 3 restaurants, 2 on Forbes and another on Fifth.) I think that it became Primanti’s back in the late 1970s or early 1980’s.

CK, maybe we ran into each other since I was on the 4th floor of C 1974-77. And they were called Ajax, Bab-0 and Comet!

Frankie Gustine’s was on the Forbes side by the King’s Court and then there was a Winky’s on Forbes as well. Originally the Winky’s had two connected store fronts but it never filled up that much and one of them was sold off and a bar took that space.

Remember that it took forever to buy the textbooks because there were only two checkers at the Pitt Book Store.

I still remember the worst meal I ever had at the Pitt Cafeteria and it was called “Beef A La Dutch” meat chunks smothered in pea soup. Everyone couldn’t eat it…so glad I had a fridge in my room and a GE Toaster Oven that heated up Swanson dinners that I could get at the Giant Eagle or A&P. Lost count of how many Swanson Chicken Dinners I ate…