The Waffle Shoppe

Remembering a local coffee shop hangout that served an important role in growing up

I drove by an old hangout from my late teens and early twenties the other day and it wasn’t there.

The Waffle Shoppe, on Washington Ave. in Scranton, was a late night fixture of my college days. I spent countless hours with my buddies, Bob Heim, Gary McDaniel and Greg Novak, drinking copious cups of coffee, eating rice pudding, and filling notebooks with…