Is this the oddest subway station in North America? It’s in the race, at least.
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Halloween in the Homewood Cemetery
A Halloween stroll in the Homewood Cemetery with Frankencamera.
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Fall Colors in Union Dale Cemetery
A stroll in Union Dale Cemetery with Frankencamera.
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Father Pitt’s Eccentric Photography
Frankencamera. Father Pitt’s site is dedicated to pictures of beautiful and interesting things in Greater Pittsburgh—“Greater,” of course, meaning whatever old Pa Pitt wants it to mean. Sometimes Father Pitt has things to say about photography itself. Instead of boring his readers here who have no interest in the subject, he has decided to gather his musings on the art of photography in one place:
Father Pitt’s Eccentric Photography at photo.fatherpitt.com.
And if you go there right now, you will meet, just in time for Halloween, Frankencamera.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Fruit Auction & Sales Building and Produce Terminal, Strip
Composite of three photographs. In the 1800s, the produce industry was concentrated on Liberty Avenue downtown, and a railroad ran right down the middle of the street to serve the wholesalers.
Gradually the business moved to the Strip, and in 1906 the tracks in Liberty Avenue were torn up. For a while the produce auctions were conducted in the open air straight from the freight cars, and a 1923 map shows the “produce yard” in the middle of the sea of tracks that built up in the Strip:
In 1926, the railroad built a colossal terminal for the produce business. The Fruit Auction & Sales Building at the northeast end (above) had two tall floors; from there the Produce Terminal stretched five blocks, a quarter-mile long, making a dramatic open plaza of Smallman Street.
After sitting mostly vacant for a while, the building was renovated at a cost of more than $50 million and reopened as a shopping, eating, and entertainment center called “The Terminal.”
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Fall in the South Hills Neighborhoods
Fujifilm FinePix HS10. Rooftops of Beechview houses with the tower of St. Canice Church, Knoxville, in the background.
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A Twilight Stroll in Seminole Hills, Mount Lebanon
The back end of Seminole Hills developed later than the section nearer Washington Road, with more modest houses, many of them built during the Depression. But even many of these modest middle-class homes are pleasing designs, doubtless by some of our more distinguished architects. These pictures were taken after sunset in dim light, so expect some grain if you enlarge them.
This house sits in a triangle where Iroquois Drive meets Allendale Place at an acute angle. It faces the street on three sides, and it was designed to be a good composition from any angle.
Fujifilm FinePix HS10.
