What should replace lost treasures in State college?

[BlackNovember]

I still miss Hiway pizza and Roy Rogers.

Some fair to middlin suggestions here

http://theblacksheeponline.com/penn-state/7-ideal-replacements-state-colleges-closing-spaces

 

[Fayette_LION]

I still miss Hiway pizza and Roy Rogers.

Some fair to middlin suggestions here

http://theblacksheeponline.com/penn-state/7-ideal-replacements-state-colleges-closing-spaces

Highway Pizza used to be a tradition for us. 4 hour drive to the game and pizza for lunch. Really miss that pizza joint, it was oh so good.

 

[Nittany Ziggy]

Bring back Pedro's Mexican Restaurant! Great late-night bite and the laxative effect was often welcomed in the AM!

 

[BlackNovember]

At some point HIway (was it HiWay or Highway?) got away from basic squares and got into fancy artisinal pizzas.

I remember something like $5 for 2 slices or something like that for the squares. But they were big & think bread and practically enough food for the day.

Brothers pizza by UBC (I think it's still there) had 2 slices & a small coke for $2 and that was ok, but not as substantial.

Roy Rogers always had biscusts for like 29 cents or something and that gave you access to the unlimited fixins bar. And for as long as you could maintain the 32 oz cup from freshman year, free refills!

 

[cvilleelkscoach]

I still miss Hiway pizza and Roy Rogers.

Some fair to middlin suggestions here

http://theblacksheeponline.com/penn-state/7-ideal-replacements-state-colleges-closing-spaces

Hiway pizza still exists in two sites just not downtown. Both still sell Sicilian pizza and sell it by the slice at lunch time versus an entire pie.

 

[BlackNovember]

Bring back Pedro's Mexican Restaurant! Great late-night bite and the laxative effect was often welcomed in the AM!

There was another little place nearby possibly even next door to there that (I don't know what else they served actually, and not their name) but had french onion soup ready-to-go at all times.

Pedros was the prophylactic laxative. The french onion soup was like the morning after pill in case you forgot to hit Pedros the night before.

 

[Frabjous]

The My O My. Answering for a friend.

 

[Cletus11]

i remember Brothers pizza would deliver a pizza for $4.50, you gave the guy a $5 bill. You would split it with somebody and a $2.50 meal.

 

[83wuzme]

I have never recovered from the loss of the Train Station.

 

[BBrown]

Highway Pizza used to be a tradition for us. 4 hour drive to the game and pizza for lunch. Really miss that pizza joint, it was oh so good.

I always liked their stuffed pizza but my favorite was Vesuvios.
My go to now is Faccia Luna. They are excellent.

 

[pandaczar12]

How about we replace one lost state college treasure with another... and build a little park with the Paterno statue.

 

[PSU Dave]

Bring back Pedro's Mexican Restaurant! Great late-night bite and the laxative effect was often welcomed in the AM!

Dude, loved Pedros. Plus a short walk from Garner Street.

 

[Roar More]

The My O My. Answering for a friend.

Upstairs or downstairs?

Asking for a friend.

 

[razpsu]

So the article says they want 3 more chains downtown. Yea that is just what state college needs. Dear lord!

 

[Nitt1300]

The Scorpion, Ritas, Gus's, Pops Mexi-Hots

 

[Roar More]

The Scorpion, Ritas, Gus's, Pops Mexi-Hots

Gus' was great. Also liked Paul Bunyan's while it lasted.

 

[LafayetteBear]

I have never recovered from the loss of the Train Station.

It's a shame, but time and tide...

My wife waxes poetical about the Train Station (wasn't this the place with the really nice back patio?) and Hiway Pizza, but our sons, who are there now, never knew either place. Instead, they wax poetical about Champs and Wings Over, which probably were not around when you were there, Wuz.

No sugarcoating the loss of the Skeller, though.

 

[razpsu]

I worked at both (Hiway) round pie and cut pie. Great fresh pizza and grinders and Stromboli. Loved making the meatballs.

 

[TheBigUglies]

Bring back Playland!!!!!!!

 

[mrtailgate]

Bring back Playland!!!!!!!

Like a million times. Plus a good head shop, Wuv, and Munchies.

 

[lastfedaykin]

LaBamba Burritos. They were as big as your head. And open until after the bars closed. Give them a liquor license and bring them back. Super Nachos were amazing.

 

[LemonEars]

HiWay Pizza, Big V, Futura, My O MY -- miss them all.

 

[Ten Thousan Marbles]

Roy's, with cowgirls saying: "Howdy, partner."

 

[LionDeNittany]

I still miss Hiway pizza and Roy Rogers.

Some fair to middlin suggestions here

http://theblacksheeponline.com/penn-state/7-ideal-replacements-state-colleges-closing-spaces

Is "treasure" a new term for "shithole"?

LdN

 

[LineMountain]

Downtown: Chick Fil A, Moe’s, 5 Guys. All you need.!

 

[kgilbert78]

Hiway pizza still exists in two sites just not downtown. Both still sell Sicilian pizza and sell it by the slice at lunch time versus an entire pie.

The North Atherton location was almost always always our got to place post-game.

 

[CF LION]

Early 80's, there was a place just off East College Ave where you rented a little room , like 8' X 8' with a couch and a TV and they put a movie of your choice on via VHS. They must have had 20 or so rooms in the place. Great date spot.

 

[razpsu]

Videodome? across from golden dome arcade.

That was where you took dates to watch movies in a little room. Although can’t remember any moves we rented.

 

[john4psu]

I ate a lot of hamburgers at Roy Rogers with fixins that would envy Dagwood Bumstead.

The last time I hit Brothers just pizza on Saturday no calzones.

As long as the Tavern is there with what my son calls a sit-down buffet or CC Peppers on the way home I'm good.

There's a Sheetz but no Wawa.

 

[razpsu]

Maybe it was the nicklelodean

 

[LuvDaLions]

What was the name of the pizza place on North Atherton that used to play 3 Stooges videos all the time?

 

[knickslions]

Bring back Playland!!!!!!!

Playland after the Gman was the best!!!

 

[BlackNovember]

Playland after the Gman was the best!!!

It was infested with high school girls when I was there.

 

[LafayetteBear]

Early 80's, there was a place just off East College Ave where you rented a little room , like 8' X 8' with a couch and a TV and they put a movie of your choice on via VHS. They must have had 20 or so rooms in the place. Great date spot.

Did they rent out slipcovers for the couches? Yikes.

 

[Erial_Lion]

Playland after the Gman was the best!!!

I always liked Playland when the lines to the bathrooms at the Lion's Den got too long. I think I entered the place about 50 times while at PSU, and all 50 were for the men's room.

 

[lj4heisman1]

Suziw wongs

Dollar movie theatre south atherton

Post house tavern

 

[olelion]

Highway Pizza used to be a tradition for us. 4 hour drive to the game and pizza for lunch. Really miss that pizza joint, it was oh so good.

I went to tne one out on 322 this past July. Not the same

 

[LemonEars]

Does anyone else remember the Big V? It was on Allen Street across from the Corner Room. It was a fast food hamburger place that pre-dated McDonalds. It was the first fast food place that most of us had ever seen. The hamburgers were prepared on a motorized assembly line. They were pretty good. I think it opened around 1968.

 

[Nitt1300]

This was before my time, but they tore it down and replaced it with the hideous Willard Building

 

[Achowalogan]

Suziw wongs

Dollar movie theatre south atherton

Post house tavern

Post House Tavern - when I was in grad school (postponed the world after the B.S.) the prof I worked for took his research assistants to the Post House Tavern on Friday afternoons...he'd buy and have a drink with us...then be off on his way...

Also caught breakfast sometime at the Pancake Cottage downtown - hole in the wall...