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cheap thrills: where did all the twenty-five-cent machines go?

Earlier this spring, my husband and I made the approximate one-mile trek to Dave & Andy’s, a beloved ice cream shop that opened near the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 and was closing permanently in just a few short days. While I do love ice cream (and theirs was quite good), a double scoop wasContinue reading “cheap thrills: where did all the twenty-five-cent machines go?”

manufacturing fun

The year was 1999 and my family structured a weekend getaway around Pennsylvania tourist attractions. We visited the Johnstown Flood Museum, Jimmy Stewart’s house, and Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1935 western Pennsylvanian home that I was, at the age of four, too young to enter. The most important leg of the trip, at least forContinue reading “manufacturing fun”