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[willeyeam]

Mickey Monus old house is behind the 14th green at Squaw Creek Country Club and it is effing massive.

When you were a younger man (in your ulf days, not your willeyeam days), did you get to watch the documentary on his fraud schemes in any auditing classes? they pulled some ballsey stunts. monus also tried to start a basketball league for guys that were like 6'6" or shorter or something like that. what a guy

also, this gentleman went to woodsons as part of a celebration for Kenny the kangaroo's pony league championship in 1998. This gentleman was rock solid at second base and batting in the two slot.

We did not watch any documentaries but we did talk about some of his stunts since it pretty much happened in our backyard. I guess he used to move all his inventory to the store that was getting counted. So they told us that is why to be "unpredictable." Fast forward to the real world, surprise inventory counts don't really work.

2B in the 2 slot? I feel like if you talked in the first person you would be me.

[robbiestoupe]

Phar-mor was decent, but I still have a soft spot for Hills department stores. Memories of going in as a kid and grabbing a soft pretzel and Coke slushy in the lobby.

[willeyeam]

Phar-mor was decent, but I still have a soft spot for Hills department stores. Memories of going in as a kid and grabbing a soft pretzel and Coke slushy in the lobby.

Heck yeah. I judged stores my mom dragged me into by their snacks. Hills was tops. The mall was okay with the pretzel place, and KMart had a Little Caesars. Gabriel Brothers had nothing and the shirts I got always had something wrong with them so I hated that place

[nocera]

Phar-mor was decent, but I still have a soft spot for Hills department stores. Memories of going in as a kid and grabbing a soft pretzel and Coke slushy in the lobby.

Hills was great. I had a ridiculous amount of these cards.

[columbia]

defunct chain store

[Stoosh]

Mickey Monus old house is behind the 14th green at Squaw Creek Country Club and it is effing massive.

When you were a younger man (in your ulf days, not your willeyeam days), did you get to watch the documentary on his fraud schemes in any auditing classes? they pulled some ballsey stunts. monus also tried to start a basketball league for guys that were like 6'6" or shorter or something like that. what a guy

The WBL - World Basketball League. This happened circa 1989/1990-ish and Erie had a team in it called the Erie Wave. I remember going to a bunch of their games.

You're right about the height limit. The league was marketed around run-and-gun basketball. The games were fun but the league was beyond weird, even by minor league standards. I think there were only like 6 or 8 teams in the league, but they were from literally all over the map. I definitely recall there being teams in Erie, Youngstown and Las Vegas. I think there were two teams from Canada...like Halifax and Montreal or something. They also had games against random national teams like Latvia.

I do remember Mario Elie playing for the Youngstown team. Bo Kimble of Loyola Marymount/Hank Gathers fame played like a half-season in Erie, too.

[Stoosh]

I started collecting football cards in 1986 when I was about 11 years old. My favorite thing about Hills was that they would always have the 48-card rack packs.



Those things were like $1.50 each. $10 would get you six packs and you would wind up with about half the complete set.

[dodint]

My wife loved Hills. She just used it in a Scattergories game this weekend.

[meow]

My grandparents called all pharmacies Phar-Mor and all department stores Hills.

[Silentom]

My wife loved Hills. She just used it in a Scattergories game this weekend.

Scattergories is amazing.

[columbia]

@robbiestoupe @Troy Loney

There was a Murphy's where the WalMart is on Library Road. One could go through open double doors to go the Giant Eagle and back.

[nocera]

My wife loved Hills. She just used it in a Scattergories game this weekend.

Scattergories is amazing.

I was going to say no proper nouns allowed, but then I remember there are, you know, hills...

[nocera]

My grandparents called all pharmacies Phar-Mor and all department stores Hills.

My grandparents called it Par-Mor (instead of "far-more"). I tried to explain that you don't talk on a "pone," but grandparents are not easily swayed.

[dodint]

Source of the post I was going to say no proper nouns allowed, but then I remember there are, you know, hills...

This is a home rule. It's not in the official rules. Just sayin'.

[slappybrown]

Anyone else remember Woodson's bar in Station Square? I went there once when I was younger. There's not much info on it, but I did find a "program" from there with the menu. Funny to look at it now.

http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/menu_collection/74/

Wow what a blast from the past. Have not thought of that place in ages. Went there 3 or 4 times. Can't really recall any details.

My Dad took us there a few times. I remember that they shared a space with Hooters so there was a hall that you could walk from the bar in Woodsons to the bar in Hooters without going outside. 11 year old me thought that was awesome.

I couldnt remember if Hooters moved into their space after they closed or if they were next door as you describe. The menu Nuge posted and that logo were nostalgia city.

[blackjack68]

I have a pin from Woodson's somewhere in my collection of junk from throughout the years.

[Troy Loney]

I remember my dad telling me about the bar that was there before Woodson's. Sportsgarden or something? He told me he saw Gary Anderson kicking field goals in side. Now, either he was full of ****, or I dreamt it and held it as a real memory from childhood.

[RonnieFranchise]

I remember my dad telling me about the bar that was there before Woodson's. Sportsgarden or something? He told me he saw Gary Anderson kicking field goals in side. Now, either he was full of ****, or I dreamt it and held it as a real memory from childhood.

Yes, it was the Pittsburgh Sports Garden

When I was in college

Effing kids!

[robbiestoupe]

@robbiestoupe @Troy Loney

There was a Murphy's where the WalMart is on Library Road. One could go through open double doors to go the Giant Eagle and back.

Definitely before my time. I remember it just being a GE. I was always jealous of the guys in high school that worked there while I worked at the now DEFUNCT Foodland on Fort Couch Rd.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

speaking of woodsons and hooters, can we just consider station square as a place that Pittsburgh residents don't actually visit? it is essentially defunct as a destination for residents

[dodint]

heh. Foodland. Nice. My Mom refused to shop there (in Greensburg) because she insisted it smelled like piss.

[robbiestoupe]

heh. Foodland. Nice. My Mom refused to shop there (in Greensburg) because she insisted it smelled like piss.

The owner was a coke head, so...

[Troy Loney]

I knew some dudes that worked at that foodland when I was in high school. They used to steal crates of eggs cartons and egg this one kid's house all the time.

[robbiestoupe]

Must have been a different era. We just stole cans of chew and lottery tickets. And would ring each other up for $.01 for any purchase.

[Silentom]

I used to go to the Mt. Royal Blvd Foodland all the time, when I was a kid. My grandfather lived in Glenshaw at the time. Now it's a really big Dollar Tree.