Miracle Mile Shopping Center in the 1960s.

Boyce Park Administrative Building newly-constructed in 1966.

US Steel Research Center

Westinghouse Nuclear Center

Johnston's Airport - 1960s.

Eagles' Club - Boyd's Hill - 1970s

Zayre's on Route 22 - 1970s

Garden City Center in 1970s

LaBarbe - Old Wm Penn Hwy. - 1970s

George Takas' Auto Body Shop in 1970s.

Union Railroad Tracks from Route 22.

Union RR - Hall Locomotive Repair Shops off Thompson Rd.

Union Railraod - Hall Locomotive Repair Shops

Former Saw Mill - Thompson Run Road. 1970s

Gravel Business - Old Wm Penn Hwy.

Groundbreaking for Kaufmann's Store. 1960.

Haymaker Rd. (unpaved). 1950s.

Northern Pike & Mosside Blvd. 1971.

22 Park Shops (Route 22) - 1970.

Valley Buick Route 22 & Route 48. 1970s.

Pittsburgh Corning Co. 1962.

Penn Monroe Bar and Grill on Route 22 in the 1970s.

Municipal Water Authority along Old Route 22.

Garden City Shopping Center. c1960.

Holiday House on Route 22. 1970s.

Zayre's Shopping Plaza on Route 22.

Miracle Mile Shopping Center. 1960s.

Monroeville Public Library before opening in 1964.

Holiday House on Route 22. 1970s.

Johnny Garneau's Restaurant on Route 22.

Terrace Motel on Route 22. 1969.

Toll Gate Motel at Routes 22 & 48 in the 1970s.

Valley Buick Shopping Center on Route 22 in the 1970s.

US Post Office on Monroeville Blvd. 1970s.

Northern Pike Shopping Center at Route 48. 1970s.

Garden City Swimming Pool.

Miracle Mile Shopping Center. 1960s.

A & L Motors on Route 22.

Tyke's Gas station at Route 22 and Stroschien Rd.

Union Railroad's Steam Locomotive. 1940s.

Steam Locomotive (Baldwin type 0102) built for the Union Railroad in the 1940s.

Union Railroard train at the North Bessemer shops of the P&LE RR. c. 1950s.

Union Railroad train unloading scrap at US Steel's Duquesne works.

Union Railroad's diesel engine.

Johnston's Field in the 1950s.

La Barbe restaurant. c. 1920.

Removal of Railroad tracks for mine servicing near Route 22 and Center Road.

La Barbe Resaurant c. 1970.

Garden City Entrance. c. 1950s.

La Barbe restaurant. c. 1950.

Route 22 between Northern Pike and Center Road.

La Barbe restaurant showing outdoor dance floor in back. c. 1950.

Route 22 heading east at Center Road. c. 1950.

On Northern Pike towards Route 22. c. 1950.

Monroeville Road near the US Steel labs. c. 1950.

Miracle Mile shopping center. 1987.

Site of Johnston's Dairy Farm in 1987.

Route 22 east from overpass near Northern Pike. c. 1950.

Route 22 west from overpass. c. 1950.

Route 22 east at Center and Stroschein (Salamon Brother's Market). c. 1950.

Jonnet Building c. 1980.

Route 22 and Center Rd. 1998.

Route 48 view North. 1995.

Victoria Station restaurant off Stroschein Rd. c. 1980.

Eat 'n Park restaurant on Route 22. c. 1990.

Northern Pike towards Route 22. c.1990.

Miracle Mile Shopping Center. c. 1990.

Miracle Mile Shopping Center. c. 1990.

Route 22. Pittsburgh Dry Cleaners. c. 1990.

Route 22. view from Miracle Mile. c. 1990.

Monroeville Airport. 2005.

MacGregor Stone Bridge near Old Wm. Penn Hwy.

Forbes Regional Hospital. c. 1980.

Holiday House on Route 22. c. 1980.

Two ladies riding in an early automobile in front of the Old Stone Church. c.1910.

Monroeville's Time Capsule on display at Monroeville Mall in 1976.

Union Railroad's Hall Shops and Roundhouse. c 2000.

Union Railroad's Hall Shops. 2005.

Taylor's Auction Barn near routes 22 and 48. c. 1950.

Monroeville's Municipal Building in 2006.

Methodist Church. 2005.

Greyhound Bus (type MCI-9, Americuriser) at Monroeville Mall Bus Stop. 2005.

Miracle Mile in 2005.

Routes 22 and 48 facing west in 2005.

Turnpike Gardens entrance sign in 2005.

Route 22 facing east in 2005.

Miracle Mile in 2005.

Route 22 at Stroschien Rd. in 2005.

Patton Township Coal Mine in 1922

James Street in the 1920s.

Salamon Brother's Super Market at Route 22 and Center Road. c. 1940.

Cole's Cottage at Route 22 and Stroschien Rd. in 1947.

Monroeville's first municipal building in 1957.

US Steel Research Labs. 1955.

Monroeville's Public Library in 2005.

Monroeville Mall in 2005.

Burke Glen amusement park with a boardwalk over the stream.ÿ c. 1930s.

Miracle Mile. c. 1950.

Local traffic on Pitcairn Rd. c. 1920.

Route 22 with Wm. Penn Fruit Market's open stands. c. 1950.

US Steel Research Center (aerial view). c. 1960.

Patton Township coal mine in 1922.

Coal Mine near modern day Caruso Plan in 1920s.

Kuehn's Dairy Farm (Monroeville's last family-owned dairy farm) c.1970s.

Miracle Mile. c.1970.

Miracle Mile in 2005.

Ball Famiy's Studebaker stuck in the mud of the (unpaved) Haymaker Road. c. 1950s.

A Cole Automobile on a national sales tour is displayed in Pitcairn in 1910.

Taylor's Auction Barn in the 1950s.

Miracle Mile. c. 1960.

US Post Office on Monroeville Blvd. c. 1980.

San Juan Motel on Route 22. c. 1960.

Radio Hill along Route 48 (later the Gateway H.S. campus) as seen from Loehmann's Plaza. 1985.

Kaufmann's Department Store on Route 22. 1986.

Miracle Mile (Murphy's Meats and Islay's). 1991.

Miniature Golf Course at Burke Glen. 1968.

Gavity Fill Gas Station on Old Route 22 with gasolene supplied from railroad cars on adjacent hill. c. 1930.

Gravity Fill Gas station on Old Route 22 with staff.

The Old Windmill Restaurant and Gravity Fill station on Old Route 22. c. 1930.

Old Windmill restaurant on Old Route 22. c. 1930.

Miracle Mile. c. 1950.

Miracle Mile. c. 1950.

The Holiday House and Route 22. c. 1950.

William Penn Motel at 4139 Wm. Penn Hwy. c. 1960.

Phoenix Motel on Route 22. c. 1960.

Miracle Mile. c. 1950.

Miracle Mile. c. 1950.

Stroschein's Cross Roads Atlantic Gas Station. c. 1930.

La Barbe Barbeque and Restaurant. c. 1930.

The Speed Hound Roller coaster at Burke Glen. c. 1930.ÿ (Photo courtesy of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh).

Burke Glen amusement park and roller coaster. c. 1920.

Conley's Motel and Restaurant on route 22. c. 1960.

The Ice Skating Rink at Monroeville Mall. c. 1970.

Shay Locomotive of the Cunningham Coal Co., servicing the mines of Patton Township is shown here removing tracks on Center Road.

San Juan Motel. c. 1960.

Red Coach Inn. c. 1950.

Taylor's Auction Barn on route 22. c. 1950.

Workers building the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Monroeville in the 1950s.

Routes 22 and 48. c. 1960.

Lang's Gas station on route 22. c. 1920.

Taylor's Auction Barn on Route 22. c. 1950.

Hampton Inn. 2005.

King's Motel on Route 22. 2005. (razed in 2013)

The Palace Inn Motel on Route 48. 2005. (razed 2009. Current location of UPMC Hospital)

Route 22 looking West in 2005.

Sunrise Inn on Route 22. c. 2000.

Burke Glen amusement park. c. 1930.

Route 22 at Center/Stroschein Rds. c. 1970.

Penn-Monroe Bar and Restaurant on Route 22. c. 1950.

Monroeville Public Library. c. 1980.

Joseph Horne Co., in Monroeville Mall. 1969.

Miracle Mile at night. c. 1950.

Wilkinsburg-Pittsburgh Air Park (Monroeville Airport). c. 1950.

The original of Monroeville's Holiday inn Bldg on Mosside Blvd. c. 1970.

Monroeville's Holiday inn. Original Building on Mosside blvd. 1970. (aerial view).

Holiday inn on Mosside Blvd. 2005.

Beatty's Resaurant and Gulf Station on Route 22 at Strochein Rd. c. 1948.

Tucker's hotel on route 22. c. 1946.

Young's Grocery and Gas station, near James St. c. 1930.

Young's Grocery and Gas Station, near James St. c.1930. (rear view).

The Monroeville Expo Mart. 2005.

La Barbe restaurant. 2005.

The Jonnet Building. 2005.

MacGregor Road Stone Bridge. c. 1970.

Miracle Mile (aerial view). 1985.

Monroeville Borough Building. 1957.

Terrace Motel. c. 1960.

Former Saw Mill on Thompson Run Road, now Eles Brothers Cement Co. 2005.

Parkvale Bldg. on Route 22. 2005.

Route 22 at Northern Pike. 2005.

Penn-Monroe Bar and Grill on Route 22. 2005.

Putt-putt Miniature Golf Course. 2005.

Radisson Hotel near Monroeville Mall. 2005. (Currently a DoubleTree)

R.J. Lee Company on Hochberg Rd. 2005.

The US Post Office in Monroeville. 2005.

Tucker's Hotel on Route 22 near Duff Road. c. 1950.

Park Diner on Route 22. c. 1990.

Hohman's Market, 1224 James St.. c. 1990.

Miracle Mile. c. 1960.

Route 22 at Center Road; looking east. c. 1990.

Penn Super Pharmacy, Community Hardware, Hair Supply. c. 1990.

Center Road at Route 22. c. 1990.

Puttsburgh-Monroeville Airport (aerial view). 1969.

Route 22 looking east near Rt. 48 (Kaufmann's on right). c.1960.

Route 22 looking west towards Wlikins Twp. c. 1960.

Route 22 near Center Rd. (Ruby's Cleaners on left). c. 1960.

Route 22 looking west (with Luzader's 22 Motel on left). c.1960.

Horseback riders in Turnpike Gardens. 1962.

Greyhound Bus Station at Conley's Motel. (Jospeh Matthews, Station Manager). c. 1990.

Greyhound Bus Station at Zayre's Plaza on Route 22. c. 1980.

Penn Super Pharmacy on route 22. c. 1950.

MacGregor Road Bridge. 1998.

Monroeville Mall under construction. 1968.

Monroeville Mall recently completed in 1970.

Monroeville Mall shortly after opening in July 1969.

Monroeville Mall shortly after opening in July 1969.

Fountains in Monroeville Mall shortly after opening in July 1969.

Fountains in Monroeville Mall from second floor. 1969.

Ice skating Rink in Monroeville Mall in 1983. (closed in 1983).

Ice skating Rink in Monroeville Mall in 1983. (closed in 1983).

Cinema world in Monroeville Mall Plaza. 1990.

Best Buy in Monroeville Mall plaza. 2006.

Corner of Monroeville Blvd. and Jamison Lane. 1998.

"Gene's Waterfall" off Strochein Road. 1998.

Duck Pond at Monroeville's Restland Cemetery. 1997.

Flea market at Jonnett Plaza. 1982.

Widening of Monroeville Blvd. in 1970.

Route 22 looking east from the overpass in 1997.

USAF Rockets on display at the opening of the Monroeville Mall. 1969.

View from Cross Roads Cemetery looking north in 2001.

Wm. Penn Motel, Burger King and Sunrise Inn. Route 22. 1995.

Monroeville Municipal building. 1998.

Miracle Mile Drive-In near Murrysville in the late 1950s.

Miracle Mile in 1965.

Monroeville's Adderly district. 2002.

Pittsburgh Outdoor Theater, on route 22 near route 48, in the late 1940s.

Route 22 facing East in the early 1950s.

Sportsmen's bar on Old Wm. Penn Hwy. in the late 1940s.

San Juan Motel in the late 1940s.

San Juan Motel in the late 1940s.

Miracle Mile. 1957.

"The District" at Monroeville Mall. 2005.

Strochein Road from Jonette Bldg. looking north. 1993.

Monroeville Mall (aerial view). c. 1980

Looking south across Route 22 before Cochran Motors in 2001.

Taylor's Auction Barn on Route 22 in the 1950s.

La Barbe restaurant in 1926.

Penn Super Pharmacy on Route 22 in the 1950s.

WPSL, Monroeville's radio station. c. 1970. The station signed on the air in September 1964 with call letters taken from the name of the founder. Punchy Sylvis Leib. When she died, her sister Sarah Sylves Thompson, took over as President of The Monroeville Broadcasting Company. The station was sold to out-of-town interests, and the call letters changed in 1980.

Monroeville Mall. c. 1970.

Monroeville Mall. c. 1970.

Monroeville Mall. c. 1970.

Monroeville Mall. c. 1970.

Cole's Cottage. c. 1940.

Miller's Roadside Stand.

Miracle Mile in 2006.

Beatty's Restaurant and Gulf Gas Station on Old Wm Penn Hwy near Center Road. c. 1948.

Water Fountain at Monroeville Mall - 1978.

Miracle Mile in the late 1950s.

Young's Grocery and Gas Station at Young's Corner near James St. 1930 (rear view).

Young's Grocery and Gas Station at Young's Corner near James St. 1930.

Luzader's 22 Motel.

The Tollgate Motel.

Krusey's Cement Block Co., on Wallace Drive, in 2008.

Corn Crib on Wallace Drive (in 2008) - a reminder of Monroeville's agricultural past.

Burke Glen Amusement Park.

Several facilities of the Westinghouse Company were consolidated in late 1970 with the move to the newly-constructed Westinghouse Nuclear Center, near the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The building was built to serve as the design and engineering center for Westinghouse's pressurized reactor systems. Eventually, the facility became the Westinghouse Energy Center, the name it bears today (2008).

McKean Cadillac dealership on Route 22.

Beatty's Restaurant on Route 22 near Strochein Road.

Gulf Gas Station located on the southwest corner of Old Route 22 and Center Road. In the late 1950s, the station was owned by the Hamilton family.

Monzo's Howard Johnsons. Located on Route 48 near the intersection with Route 22, this motel lost the "Howard Johnsons" designation but continued on in business into the 2000s. Eventually it was closed and the land sold as the site for a future hospital.

Cinemette East on Mall Boulevard. c. 1970. One of the last movie theaters in Monroeville was eventually closed and a (Best Buy) retail store erected on the site.

Gimble's Department store at the anchor slot at the west end of Monroeville Mall. c. 1970.

Chin's Taki Outi on William Penn Hwy (near Center Road) c. 1970.

The Holiday House, located on the north side of Route 22 in the 2700 block, was a popular night club that featured "big name" entertainers from the 1950s to the 1980s. It closed its doors in the late 1980s, and the land was sold for development.

The Burger King on the north side of Route 22 (across from the Miracle Mile) in about 1970.

Monroeville Municipal Building in the 1970s.

Monroeville's Holiday House, a well-known night club, went out of business in the 1980s; in 1989 the building, at the 3700 block of Route 22, was torn down to make way for the Holiday Town Centre shopping mall.

Swimming Pool at Burke Glen.

Red Coach Inn.

Red Coach Inn.

Red Coach Inn - Bar.

Holiday House.

Holiday House.

Holiday House - Main Dining Room.

Holiday House - Rose Room.

Holiday House - Double H Grill.

Phoenix Motel on Route 22.

Holiday Inn off of Route 48.

Monroeville Water Authority on Old Wm Penn Hwy.

Thruway Inn.

Conley's Motel on Route 22.

Kaufmann's Department Store on Route 22 near Route 48.

Nick Marie's Esta-Esta Restaurant on Route 22.

Monroeville Mall - interior, c. 1975.

Monroeville Mall - interior, c. 1980.

Monroeville Mall - ice skating rink, c. 1975.

Routes 22 and 48 in the 1970s.

Monroevile Mall - interior.

Monroevile Mall - fountain.

Monroevile Mall - skating rink.

Monroevile Mall - G. C. Murphy Co.

Monroeville Mall - Pub Lounge.

Monroeville Mall - Schraft's Restaurant.

Monroeville Drive-In Theater on Northern Pike.

Kaufmann's Department Store on Route 22.

Highway Auto Store in the 1940s.

Bituminous Coal Research off Hochberg Road.

"Zayre's Plaza" with Monroe Theater - 1968.

King's Motel; Rt. 22 at 48 looking east - 1968.

Zayre's in "Zayre's Plaza" in the 1960s.

Miracle Mile with Thrift Drugs in 1987.

Cole's Custard Stand on Route 48.

Beauty Supply Salon at Rt. 22 and Center/Monroeville Trestle Rd. in 1988. This corner was once the location of Salamon Brother's Market.

Crowd at Burke Glen with the "Speedhound" roller coaster at the right.

Johnny Garneau's Restaurant and smorgasbord on Route 22.

William Penn Motel on Route 22.

Entrance to Garden City in 1988.

Hamilton House (Triangle Restaurant) on old Route 22 near Center Road.

Coal Tipple (remodeled) on Old Route 22 (2009).

Burke Glen Amusement Park (c. 1930).

The Penn Mor Hotel and Restaurant under construction at the lower (southern) end of Mosside Boulevard in 1947.

The Penn Mor Hotel and Restaurant. The Amantea family (bothers Joe, George, Albert, and Adam) built and ran the Penn Mor Hotel at the southern end of Mosside Blvd. The building was erected in 1947 as a hotel for workers who needed convenient rooms and meals. The restaurant expanded to serve a heavy volume of lunch-time customers from local businesses (Westinghouse Printing in Trafford, Westinghouse Electric, etc) with favorites being Hot Sausage on Bun and Pasta dishes. Eventually the brothers expanded the building to included banquet facility with large ballrooms (first and second floors) for dances, wedding receptions, and conferences. The business was sold in 1957.

The Warner Auto Repair Garage on Northern Pike.

A team of oxen is seen on Northern Pike in front of Warner's Auto Repair in this 1920s photo.

A demonstration of fire fighting techniques at the original station of Monroeville's Fire Company #5 located behind a gas station at Strochein Road and Business Route 22. (c.1950s).

Monroeville Fire Company #5 began in 1955 in the side garage bay of the Gulf Service Station located at Strochein Road and Business Route 22. The company later (1964) moved to a new location on Seco Road in Monroeville's Business Park.

Veteran's Memorial across from Borough Building.

Patton Township Fire Truck from Fire Company Number 1, a 1939 International Pumper, seen here in the Fourth of July parade.

The White Swan Bar and Restaurant on Monroeville Blvd in early 1940s-1950s. Original owners Emil and Nick Colbaugh; later Augie Bates.

PPG Industries, 440 College Park Drive. In 2012.

Beatty Farm Meat Market on Old William Penn Hwy in 1952.

Mosside Blvd in 2011 (Photo by Gene Bolch) .

Evening on Route 22 near the Miracle Mile Shopping Center (photo by Gene Bolch).

U.S. Steel Research Labs off Jamison Lane shortly after opening in 1956.

Jonnet Plaza.

Miracle Mile.

Miracle Mile with Kroger's.