They belong to Cruisin’ Tikis Pittsburgh: you can charter one for up to half a dozen people, or two lashed together for up to a dozen. Bring your own alcohol, because as far as Father Pitt can tell these are basically floating bars.
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Tiki Boats
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Canada Goose Swimming
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Heinz Field
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Fort Duquesne Bridge
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Crossing the Monongahela in a Trolley
From Station Square across the river into the subway tunnel. You can also download a full-resolution version from the Wikimedia Commons file page.
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Firstside
Firstside is the row of nineteenth-century commercial buildings facing what used to be the Monongahela Wharf. At one end is the Conestoga Building, one of the first steel-cage skyscrapers; at the other is the modernist Westinghouse Building.
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A Lot of Bridges
Above: the West End Bridge over the Ohio, with the Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge behind it, and the McKees Rocks Bridge behind that. Below, the Allegheny, with the Fort Duquesne Bridge, the Three Sisters, the Fort Wayne railroad bridge, the Veterans Bridge, and the Sixteenth Street Bridge. For extra credit, see if you can point out the Twenty-Eighth Street Bridge. (Click on the picture to make it very big.)
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Carnegie Science Center
And its pet submarine, the USS Requin.
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The Mon
Looking east up the Monongahela River from Mount Washington.
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Hot Metal Bridge
This rehabilitated pair of bridges gets its name from the fact that the downstream span was used to transport hot metal across the river between the two sections of the giant J&L steel plant. The upstream span (which technically used to be the Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge) is now open to automobile traffic; the downstream span is reserved for bicycles.
Although official records spell this “Hot Metal Bridge,” it is always pronounced “Hotmetal Bridge,” with the accent on the first syllable.
