With brothers closing what are some places we miss?
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Munchies had great Stromboli’s, too. Another place other than Brothers we used to go to for late night eats was Pedro’s.
Not surprised Brothers is gone because when the original owner retired and sold the place it was never the same. They didn’t even sell Stromboli’s anymore. I used to call them BINO’s, Brothers In Name Only.
I had dinner from Champs tonight and had a Susie Wong egg roll. Yes as good as you may remember. They only sell them commercially, no retail. Suzie was my classmate at State High, class of 77.
Great memories of many drunken rodeos at Roy Rogers. I wish I could go back in time.....
Spat's
Pennsylvania Pizza
Penn State Sub Shop
Hi Fi House
Pedro's
Vesuvio's
Hi Way Pizza
The Train Station
Bubba's
Playland
Campus Casino
Lazy's J's
Scorpion
Pennsylvania Pizza
Penn State Sub Shop
Hi Fi House
Pedro's
Vesuvio's
Hi Way Pizza
The Train Station
Bubba's
Playland
Campus Casino
Lazy's J's
Scorpion
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The one time my family stayed there it was a Holiday Inn--my sister ran into JoePa on the elevator. I think it was the 1979 season.
There was a third place, whose name escapes me right now. I spent a few quarters in there--though not too many as I wasn't bad at pinball. Campus Casino still had an old nickel machine in there ca. 1978. I do recall one afternoon my brother and I played for an hour and left free games on the machine. That was always the ultimate "walk off" for pinball. Playland, while it had an entrance on College, was more centered in the back off Calder Way.
Yes. There are lots of Brother's Pizza joints in the area. Giant Northland, Stormsown, Bellefonte, out by Bald Eagle High School, I think there is also one out by the mall.
The scoop on the downtown Brothers is that the original people that owned it for a long time sold it a couple years ago. The quality of food went downhill when the new owners took it over. It was no surprise to some that it went out of business because the food was not good.
Spetzels or somethng like that. Not sure if the Hotel Do-De was really a hotel in the past century. It was a bar.
Schnitzel’s was in the Bush House that was across from the park and was lost to fire in 2006.
The Hotel Do-De was located up the street across from the courthouse and was torched in. 2012.
Comparing Schnitzel’s to the Do-De is an apples to lugnuts comparison.
I stopped in a year or so ago and it changed hands. It wasn't nearly as good.
As someone who still prefers physical media to streaming, I miss the CD/record shops in State College.
Blue Train
National Record Mart (later Vibes)
Arboria
City Lights Records
Blue Train
National Record Mart (later Vibes)
Arboria
City Lights Records
I forgot they moved and confusing my times. Schnitzels was at one time located in the Garman Theater building before they moved to the Bush House. Both locations burned down.
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Loved their Regular subs. They also made Canadian Bacon hot subs like they do in Williamsport. I was a tailgate customer until the last one on North Atherton closed.
All winners.
Yup. Easiest dinner joint to get into on a football weekend (which is also why it was obviously doomed).
Nittany News was a small bookstore near The Corner Room with a great selection of underground newspapers from around the country.
They also had great prices on Nitrous Oxide Chargers and Dispensers. I made the best Latte's when I was in school!
Ha, that bar is a standing joke with my buddies and me. We stayed there one Blue/White weekend. The bar had a sign that read, "No Head-butting".Not so much a restaurant question (although they did have a restaurant)...do you guys remember the South Ridge Motor Inn? I tended bar there for a while. Wasn’t much to it, but my buddies drank for free.
I believe that was Graham's, on South Allen, that had Ben & Jerry's. Nittany News was too small to offer food.
Nittany News didn’t sound right when I read the post earlier. The place on South Allen was a large store with Ben & Jerry’s and a huge newsstand. It was located at or near the McLanahan’s currently at the corner of South Allen and Calder Way. Graham’s may be it. I went there regularly in 1991 to check the magazines and buy The National (daily sports newspaper).
Maybe at one time, but it was definitely next to Rinaldo's on S. Allen, and it's last stop was 124 S. Allen (now Sauly Boy's). I used to go in there quite a bit. Ran into some real characters at Graham's. Talked to Mickey Bergstein quite a few times there.
Here's a Collegian article from 1988 when it was at 103 S. Allen (currently the Animal Kingdom).
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_58a2d34e-cf2d-5cd3-a055-e699cb52fd0a.html
As a kid I remember going to the Candy Cane which was a candy store between the State and Cathaum theaters on the 100 block of west college.
