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  • The Bluff

    Bluff

    Seen from across the river. It seldom occurs to us when we drive on the Boulevard of the Allies how precariously the highway is perched on the edge of a sheer cliff.

    November 26, 2020
  • Siemens Trolley in Old Livery

    For trolley geeks, here is a 4100 series Siemens car picking up passengers at the Hampshire stop on Route 42 in Beechview in 2001. This is the livery these cars were originally issued when they were put in service in the middle 1980s. Route 42 is now the Red Line, and the 4100 series cars were rebuilt as the 4200 series, with a new livery to match the newer CAF cars.

    November 26, 2020
  • Corn Harvest

    Mixed heirloom varieties of popcorn grown in a small city garden in Pittsburgh.

    November 26, 2020
  • Sunrise

    November 23, 2020
  • Old Church in Spring Hill

    One of old Pa Pitt’s many regrets is that he did not buy this old church on Rhine Street in Spring Hill, merely to preserve its unique Art Nouveau façade. Behind the façade was a pedestrian frame building clinging to the side of the hill, but the façade itself was not quite like anything else in Pittsburgh. This picture was taken in 1999; the church was demolished some time after 2016, when the abandoned hulk still appears in Google Street View. The stained glass probably still exists somewhere; it was removed before the building was demolished.

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    November 21, 2020
  • Dolphin Fountain, Grandview Park

    A dolphin fountain at the Grandview Park entrance where Bailey Avenue turns into Beltzhoover Avenue. Since this picture was taken in 2001, the stones have been cleaned of their decades of industrial soot.


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    November 20, 2020
  • Fort Pitt Blockhouse, 2001

    These pictures were taken in 2001 with an old folding Agfa camera. Of course the blockhouse, which is more than two and a half centuries old, doesn’t change much these days.

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    November 19, 2020
  • Mount Lebanon Station in the Fall

    A 4200 series Siemens trolley comes out of the Mount Lebanon subway tunnel into the Mount Lebanon station, and then continues on its way.

    November 18, 2020
  • Sunset in Polish Hill

    A view across the rooftops, with the domes of Immaculate Heart of Mary in the background. The picture was taken twenty years ago, but this view has changed very little.

    November 17, 2020
  • Impressionistic View from Penn Station

    A twenty-year-old view taken with an eighty-year-old camera, looking out from under the Rotunda at Penn Station. Old Pa Pitt has been wandering in his archives, and we shall see a few more pictures from twenty years or so ago over the next few weeks.

    November 16, 2020
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