A few scenes along a short stretch of the trail in Moon Township.
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Old Service Station in Arlington
Very few service stations from the early years of the automobile have survived in Pittsburgh, even though Pittsburgh invented the drive-up filling station. This one is a good representative of the class, and though it no longer sells gasoline it remains in the automobile business today.
Canon PowerShot SX150 IS. -
Stained Glass in the Allegheny Cemetery Mausoleum
“America the Beautiful,” by Katherine Lee Bates. The Allegheny Cemetery Mausoleum is now advertised as the Temple of Memories, because our taste has gone in that direction. It’s a very large communal mausoleum, built in 1960, and walking through the doors feels like going through a time portal into the end of the Eisenhower era. By far the most striking feature of the mausoleum is the series of stained-glass windows by Willet in Philadelphia and Hunt in Pittsburgh. They are some of the best modern stained glass in Pittsburgh, and they commemorate great triumphs of religious literature and music. We have a lot of large pictures here, so we’ll put them behind a “read more” link to avoid weighing down the front page.
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Victorian Row in Lawrenceville
Separate ownership does funny things to rowhouses. This row of four would have matched originally; some owners have doubled down on the Victorian style, and some have done what they could with modern materials, leading to interesting effects along the property line.
Fujifilm FinePix HS10; Kodak EasyShare Z1285. -
Farm in Findlay Township
Pittsburgh developed in octopus fashion, with long arms of urbanization following rivers and railroads, but much open country between the arms. Findlay Township, at the western end of Allegheny County, is still rural in many places. Here is a farm with cornfield and orchard.
Olympus E-20N. -
Textures of the South Side
A street of Georgian rowhouses, all in identical red brick, is a beautiful sight. But there is something jazzy and invigorating about the endless variety of textures in the back streets of the South Side, even if individually some of the artificial sidings people applied to their houses in the twentieth century were never very attractive. The textures are probably best appreciated in black and white, so old Pa Pitt stuck some monochromatic film in his Retinette and went for a walk around the block.
Kodak Retinette with Kentmere Pan 100 film.
