The Joys of Millvale | It's Pittsburgh & A Lot of Other Stuff | A Program by Rick Sebak

Rick Sebak's documentary explores the history and some of the wonderful surprises you can find in Millvale! It's an unassuming borough on the Allegheny River, not far from Downtown Pittsburgh, but it's got Jean-Marc's French Bakery, Yetter's Candy Store, Grant Bar, Lincoln Pharmacy, Pamela's P&G Diner, Attic Records and much much more.

[@MTknitter22]

This Texan watched this and was totally charmed by the town. It’s incredibly creative and hard-working business people, the step back in time where people stuck with their jobs thru good times and bad and prospered. Millvale ! I will visit one day!! What community spirit !!!

[@WQED]

Thank you, Charlotte! Millvale is a charming neighborhood, indeed!

[@beowoofthemoviestar]

I love Rick Sebak's documentaries - they bring back what seem like simpler times. I suppose people have always been the same sinners, but 'back then' people hid some of their bad behaviors and let their better side shine thru. Yay to Pittsburgers and yinz who still live nearby.

[@Mr.Death101]

Hell yeah even the ones from the 80s all the way up till now even Pittsburgh from the air where he hardly talks it's just music is great! These are one of those things that I can watch hundreds of times and never get bored of

[@carlmyers6537]

What a great show. Rick has done it again showing the the real base of America is our small towns, east and west. The people and the love really show through in this clip of Millvale.

[@stephaniepersin4145]

This is why I live in the Pittsburgh area. I love Rick Sebak's documentaries

[@joycehenderson8209]

Born and raised in Millvale, a great little town that just keeps getting better!

[@soulsmumma]

my mom worked at yetters while i was i kid! she was the original Ethel! I love everyone in Millvale and will never forget the good people of Millvale! I was the lucky one to grow up there!

[@drifter1dc]

Joyce, are you Mel, Timmy and Glen’s sister? I went to school with Mel.....ask him about the pencil I jabbed into his palm in 3rd grade.....he still has the mark I bet!

[@jamesmichael3607]

This shows many forms of art, and the spirit of our times Zeitgheist, what’s crazy is I jus discovered mIllvale on my own last month because of attic records, and so many stories on here are like wow moments, look at these stores

[@hankmoody940]

"the only competitor is the internet" that's HUGE competition. unfortunately a lot of hobby shops don't stick around, glad this one has

[@ritaerhart9676]

I grew up in Bauerstown but spent alot of time in Millvale. Alot of memories come flooding back watching these videos. I was just back home in October. I had dinner at the Grant Bar and breakfast at the Lincoln. Pittsburgh will always be home.

[@drifter1dc]

I remember having Hire’s drought root beer in a little corner store in Bauerstown.......was great.

[@terrypfeffer8504]

I grew up in that town too

[@NoNoDigUpStupid]

"Flooding" back eh?

[@jeffsmart9482]

Millvale, what all of America use to be! Great story, great town, greater people! Thanks Rick!

[@beowoofthemoviestar]

This program made me want to visit Millvale.

[@ronnorris7821]

I learned a long time ago that you CAN go home but it's never the same as you remember it. I used to live in a small town in Pa. called Huntingdon until I was about 14 or 15 moved to a larger town (well at least to me) Huntingdon had about 5,000 pop. where I live now has about 57,000. Huntingdon is only about 36 miles from where I live now. I try to go down 2 or 3 times in the summer. But every time I go down it seems less like the town that I was born in. Friends have died or moved same as my relatives. Aoll that there now are lots of tiny dirty gift shops and lots of druggies and pushers. For about 6 years I thought that I wanted to move back there but I finally figured out no it wasn't home just my birth home. I'm almost 70 and thought that I wanted to move back there and live out the rest of my life short as it may be. It's really sad to see things change big time. Friends die relatives die businesses die. Guess that life or lack of it. So hang onto your good memories because things will change.

[@marshalljimduncan]

Where are you now Ron?

[@Khunark]

Best wishes, friend. Where ever life takes us.

[@vinniethegooch7830]

Man I hope you’re still on this earth. You’re absolutely right, so many mom and pop shops have been ravaged by crime and lawlessness.

[@melissagill9929]

I was lucky enough to work at the Lincoln for 10 years. I miss this town and everything about it. I was working the day of the 04 flood, and was back the next morning helping clean it up. What that little town went thru would of killed alot of others, but not Millvale.

[@debbiemyers7157]

Thank You so much for this video. Brought back great memories for me. My grandfather owned Al-Skas cleaners in Millvale. Loved going to the candy store and Grants bar growing up. Grants became an Adult hangout for me(from North Hills) and college friend(from Troy Hills). Live now in Atlanta but next time visiting my brother in Etna, will definitely do a walk down memory lane.

[@drifter1dc]

Debbie Myers we used to go upstairs of the cleaners, there were apartments up there. We’d run through there knocking on doors and ringing doorbells......there were two doors to enter and exit......we were so scared doing it because it was like a maze up there.....I was so happy to get out alive!

[@soulsmumma]

thank you Rick - i will watch this again and again!

[@edcarr3985]

Thank you Rick. We really enjoyed your time with us. All of us in Millvale just want to say THANKS.

[@drifter1dc]

I spent my formative years in Millvale. Great people and great town. The Lincoln lunch counter, Yetters, Esthers, Plutz’s Market. I was married at St. Anne’s.. I shined shoes up and down North Ave. and Grant st. We used to start at The Grant Bar and work our way through town, stopping midway at the Millvale Lanes above Lincoln drug store. I had my first taste of an exotic food ....pizza..... in town. There were 2 pizza places one out by the high school and one on north ave. in town. The one on North had a juke box where I played “Sugar Shack” endlessly. Whitey’s store and bar that also served turtle soup on Friday Road and Evergreen. Fran’s store where we used to play pinball machines. We’d hike Girty’s Run from the Allegheny River up to Rahda’s Auto in the winter walking on the ice through all the tunnels. So many memories. Can’t forget Wentz’s Hotel that served the best French fries and gravy, also Percels restaurant on North Ave near Sample School. Playing in the woods above Evergreen Road, swimming in the river near the Sharpsburg Water Plant, fishing down at the water intake. I can swat the misty memories from in front of my eyes and remember the great times going to bingo at the Millvale VFW with my mom. Marching in the Memorial Day parades behind the WWI , WWIi and Korean War vets. Small town America at its finest.

[@MrPerfesser]

Worked summers during college on a truck for the Sanitary Authority and we would stop for ice cream at the original Albert Yetter's. The chocolates were also great! I've lived in DC for more than 40 years, but my heart is still in Pittsburgh. It's not just where I'm from. It's who I am.

[@hungrysoles]

I used to come to Millvale on Memorial Day with my father and my grandmother to plant flowers on some family graves in a cemetery outside the town . On the way back we stopped at Regis Steedle's ice cream place for cones. Years later, I had sinner at the Grant Bar and the food was very good.

[@chevyspark8968]

Another great one Rick

[@terrypfeffer8504]

Grew up just outside of Millvale. Loved this town and plan on moving back someday. Married Bob Pfeffer and his family owned a bar and restaurant. Frankie's pizza was the best

[@brianworrall1465]

A very enjoyable portrait and an interesting town. You do seem a little confused about Simon Girty, however, who was not a "turncoat" but, rather, a person who remained loyal to his king at a time when many around him were changing their allegiance to the notion of a new republic. History written by the victors and all that!

[@Mr.Death101]

The funny thing about this video is millville is very small but there's also about 5 or 6 other awesome places they could have went.

[@williamgrabowski3411]

I love this!

[@johnbeach7985]

I love this! Now I want to move to Millvale.

[@w3smm]

I love Millvale!!

[@LisaKnobel]

My Great Grandmother lived in Millvale. I have still never had any better chocolate than what we would get at Yetters! I remember going to St Nicholas for mass. Sometimes those murals seemed pretty scary. My Great Grandmother also had a bar in Millvale and her specialty was turtle soup too. I wish I knew what their bar was called.

[@paulpeterson8952]

It was the Grant Bar

[@LisaKnobel]

@@paulpeterson8952 I'll have to ask my Dad. That would have been into the 1950s when they owned it. We always went to Neid's in the next town over as they were my Great Grandmother's neighbors.

[@JaynaRN]

Man.... Now I feel homesick.

[@lemondishonor7736]

I lived in Pittsburgh for my entire life and never stopped in Millvale.

[@WQED]

It's worth a visit. There's so much to see (and eat)!

[@keiththomas3141]

I grew up not far from Millvale. Great place to live. Used to go to Esther's Hobby Shop and the Lincoln Pharmacy. I even had my car flooded by Girty's Run.

[@onemorething100]

A slice of Americana that I sorely Miss.

[@mtnvortex]

You've got to check out the Happy Day Lounge, if you're going to Mr. Small's and need a pre-show drink. The Happy Day Lounge is a cool old bar, that seems to be stuck in time. I wouldn't expect a huge, fancy beer selection though. They seem to only stock the basic American classics, and Iron City, of course. :-) I'm from Scranton, PA, but travel to Pittsburgh occasionally.

[@cheeseface2282]

I live in Etna but my mom used to work in Yeters, best candy store ever

[@clarkewi]

Gorgeous city.

[@BaahBen]

Pamela's..the best pancakes in America! Yes, the French Bakery! It is a wonderful little town on the way to Fox Chapel.

[@jlibrary1534]

I live this place, I need to go there

[@dav1099]

Nice video, allot of good looking food places too. The gal from P&G really shouldn't brag that the best customer they had was Mike Obama. thanks for posting 👍

[@verticalhorizon4633]

Love long traditions.

[@RyFol717]

"It's a cute little tahn"

[@ronmoore8472]

Making America great again Great video I've haven't been in Pittsburgh in about 5 years it's time to go back

[@scott5678]

No one takes me to the 50s like you do

[@claymack1109]

I've been to Millvale twice to go to two concerts at Mr Smalls

[@soulsmumma]

MILLVALE STRONG - LOVE LOVE LOVE

[@miniabbott9114]

I rented an apartment in millvale and resued a little 1 year old girl named daneille at 3 o'clock in the morning after she escaped her home and was crying naked in the snow. Her parents had no idea.....

[@regissuchma5764]

I still live in millvale when the flood of 04 hit that's the worst flood I ever saw the ones in the 70's were mild

[@dawnlobaugh4299]

Hey I know u

[@regissuchma5764]

@@dawnlobaugh4299 you admit to that lol

[@dawnlobaugh4299]

Not in public

[@regissuchma5764]

@@dawnlobaugh4299 happy birthday

[@greenidguy9292]

Note to self: when the water is over the parking meters, you’re in trouble...

[@thebaron512]

No Grant Bar? Well it would have been nice to him point my old work place Carpathian Systems across from the Diner...

[@hankmoody940]

also there is Isleys left, one down in turtle creek

[@marshalljimduncan]

@JJ Swat Where at?

[@drifter1dc]

Slippery Rock had one as did West View....don’t know if they survived.

[@fastfreddy3103]

I'd move there for the Hobby Shop alone. They are all gone. Is A.B. Charles & Sons still there in Dormont? Spent my paper route money there.

[@WQED]

Unfortunately, they closed. We would love to know what cool stuff you found there!

[@theherrdark4834]

Just out of curiousity, how many places in Millvale survived the last two years?

[@RodoMallard]

Every place in this video is still around

[@LordOfNothingham]

The best thing about Millvale is it has the only Hardee’s restaurant for 10,000,000 miles.

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

Cause we call them Carl's Jr everywhere else.

[@LordOfNothingham]

@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues pretty sure Carl’s Jr. is a left coast thing. Plenty of Hardee’s south along the east coast.

[@snookums2]

He said "enougha"! Real Pittsburgheeze.

[@spacejunkiez3147]

Mr. Smalls !!!!

[@soulsmumma]

Rory i knew you when you were a little boy!

[@davesdogs2]

I did too, what is your real name there soulsmumma ? David Piwonski here from Stanton Ave.

[@mrbear8771]

14:57 did I hear 👂 that right ? Somebody correct me….😬

[@jeremyfollin4753]

that's me

[@marshalljimduncan]

Mail Ville

[@qrower]

i live in shaler

[@Iceis_Phoenix]

Oh how I miss 😢 4:25 I do not like cinnamon either just like FRANCE

[@terrypfeffer8504]

Why so much time spent on the bakery? Show the town!

[@johnnypastrana6727]

Only good thing about Millvale were my uncle and aunt...Joseph and Mildred White...RIP These locals who appear on camera as friendly are crazier than loons...if you scratch them, then you will see their neurotic insanity. All of these yahoos are on the side that is winning, I want to see the real people of Millvale...

[@boobyhatch7897]

Did Michelle crush your hand ?

[@infernogaming3858]

How you gonna talk ab millvale and not bring up franks pizza

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[@spacejunkiez3147]

I wish to register a complaint!!!! I bought this bird no longer than 1/2 hour ago from this very beautique!! What seems to be wrong with it? Well it's dead that's what's wrong with it!!!! Hahahahah

[@johnkoho1245]

There is no joys in Millvale... Just a bunch of local drunks stumbling around

[@JoshP037]

The French people "don't like cinnamon." Well that's dumb.

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