re: #48 Joe Bacon 🌹

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…

I suspect that we did run into each other. I was there 1972-1977. (Under the well known 5-Year college plan. Actually, when faced with the reality of a career looking at micro-tomed slides of pollywogs, I changed from a Biology major to an Economics major.)

Yes, you are correct, Tower A was Ajax. Do you remember a Stan Finegold? I believe that he lived on the 4th floor of Tower C.

I just did a google maps and it looks like Kings Court is now split between a T-Mobile and a Noodles and Company. So many memories of so much wasted time watching so many terrible movies at Kings Court. David Lawrence Hall generally had so many better movies.

Yup, Frankie Gustines appears to be where the Oakland Primanti’s now is.

Strangely, for some reason, I actually liked the Pitt Cafeteria. Heh, I remember one night I was eating dinner down there and looked up at the ceiling. Someone had removed the top waxed papers from the single slice butter patties and then thrown them onto the ceiling butterside up, where they stuck.