Driving around Pottsville, we passed Pizza World. I don't know why we didn't notice it before, but I was quick to remember the Abandoned But Not Forgotten page on the former restaurant:
"Pizza World! Pizza World!" I said.
Brian was slower to catch on: "What, are you hungry?"
I don't know why, but I really liked the roof on this place.
Yeah, not a lot to say about it. It was cool that we just happened upon the place, but there wasn't much to see.
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7 comments:
The Pizza place was called Toggs at one time, and appropriately enough the diner featured on the Hall & Oates album "abandoned luncheonette" was virtually across the street from this pizza shop...
thank god you guys stayed off those stairs!
I'm jealous ... started to wish I lived in PA :) Hope I can find stuff like this here in Seattle ;)
In what I consider an interesting new development, the owner of this establishment just passed away a little over a week ago. He would be better known as the founder and former owner of the Rosedale Diner, which gained greater fame as the "Abandoned Luncheonette" steveo referred to. In fact, I wouldn't describe it as virtually across the street, I would describe it as directly across the street--just on the other side of the railing next to Towpath Park. You might still be able to find a piece of the A.L. if you scrounge long enough.
In the text, you misidentified Pottstown as Pottsville. Pizza World was actually in East Coventry, on Rt 724.
Ah geeze, I'm always getting Pottstown and Pottsville confused -- one's around Frick's Lock, the other's around Centralia. Sorry about that.
As for the abandoned luncheonette, Wikipedia has this: "The diner on the cover of the Abandoned Luncheonette album was formerly the Rosedale Diner located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It went out of business and was moved to a small wooded area located along Route 724 in Kenilworth, PA, where this picture was taken and where the diner stayed until it was basically stripped apart by 1983 by people looking for souvenirs. The remains were moved from the site shortly thereafter."
Damn souvenir hunters!
This place was all fenced off last time I drove past, they may be taking it down. :(
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