Gun what Gun Working for McGlenon Detective Agency

McGlenon Detective Agency I went to work for part time after leaving CPP heard thru a friend they where nice people to work for and they where I never should have left to go to work for Holmes Protection  when that position came open but Holmes paid much more and looked like a permanent employer. Ya right another Union hack job.
Located in an old office building along Penn Ave in Wilkinsburg it was run by an older retired FBI Agent Robert McGlenon . He had all retail sites we took care of restaurants , drug stores  and such .
My First assignment was Sweet Williams right by where I lived on a late night shift basically to keep an eye on the drunks  nice job and nice people to work with but the Sweet Williams went out of business around Pittsburgh.
Next I worked a Keystone Hardware in E. Liberty which had a notorious reputation for crime. I never had problems there but was suppose to be  an armed guard I had mace and night stick but not a fire arm the supervisor wanted me to carry a gun but since I was not old enough to own one you had to be 21 and they did not provide guns he handed me a BB gun which looked like real thing and he said fake them out. Right I thought store manager never bought it either he said forget the idea  just carry the night stick and mace since I am over 6 ft and 200 pounds no one will bother you. He was right we never had a problem there and couple shoplifters I stopped with no problems. One week I noticed these young black guys all coming in with  pieces of  1/2 "conduit pipe and buying  washers and nuts and screws that fit them. very strange for there size  I thought I told a city cop what was going on good thing I did they where making pipe bombs and where stopped before problems developed.

McGlenon Offices where located on 2nd floor this building

East Liberty Drugstore now a beauty supply

I also guarded 2 chain drug stores one in East liberty and one in Broadhead Manner  which had a very high crime problem but I never had problems either place. In day time these areas where relatively safe but you had to stay on your toes for problems it was after dark when things got bad.
E. Liberty is being redeveloped and turning around slowly and Broad Head manner torn down and section 8 residents relocated.
I also guarded a Winky's hamburger joint in carrick part of the city where I grew up one night 2 idiots I knew came in and started causing problems  and I removed them physically but not before they damaged the place I filed a private criminal complaint against them and magistrate  fined them both and warned them to never go near the place or me again. The good scare they both got lead them to the straight and narrow good thing I am sure by now they both would end up in prison.
I worked a  bunch of McDonalds  as well  mostly Friday and Saturday evenings  to keep kids under control no problems for most part. I worked the McDonald's in McKeesport  in the evenings another high crime area and it was right across from the US Steel tube works. These steel workers I would talk to while things where slow in the place would all tell me I was crazy to start my own business and do electrical and refrigeration work . I should come across the street and put in an application and make $25.00 an hour for doing  nothing. Unfortunately I knew better  I had been at that  Eagle Scout luncheon meeting  at the old Press club downtown  Pittsburgh where David Roderick from US Steel had talked  2 years earlier how jobs would be going overseas shortly. He laid out the whole deal how they would retrain steel workers to take high tech positions   the US would design and develop and 3rd world would produce . I knew this was coming any ways the mills where not spending money on capital improvements to equipment  and that meant they would be gone. No one believed me . I was on duty the night the layoff news  came into the mill at that McDonalds they came in stunned and crying a couple of the guys I knew from there committed suicide it was horrible . The McDonald ended up closing and became the local unemployment office .Its gone now and place was boarded up as arson's, shootings and robbery's go on daily in McKeesport . Dam shame it was a fine town at one time.
One of the last guard shifts I did for McGlenon was at the Drug Store in Broadhead Manor  and the Pharmacist assistant  on duty was telling me how taking a guard job was a bad idea for a young guy trying to find work it says your lazy and worthless  . Really how you suppose to eat while looking for work he said he would rather be on unemployment looking for work than taking a guard or cooking or cleaning job its a loser demeaning job. I disagreed with him lost of people do these jobs as 2nd jobs and fill in till they find permanent work and still do. I ran into him couple years afterwords guess  what he was doing yes that right working as a cleaner as he could not find work and  his benefits ran out he eventually he got hired by a hospital a few years later. where I ran into him again
while being treated for a leg injury.

A couple years after leaving McGlenon   the former supervisor Bob A. called me and asked if I would be interested in doing some detective work for a detective name Don?. I said I was and  took a couple assignments one tailing a divorcee in the south side and another  working undercover at the (unimart) Little general mart  in carrick.  I never directly talked to the detective I supposedly was working for and bob Paid me in cash  . When I started looking further into the matter I could find  no license or any thing  else on this supposed detective. another case of people doing work with out a license. Nothing new around here There was a deputy constable other day involved in a shooting  in home wood who had no carry license  for a weapon

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