Opened in 1914, this splendid little movie palace, renamed for two of East Liberty’s biggest stars, is now a venue for live performances. The architect was Harry S. Bair, who designed several theaters in the area and also designed the old Dormont Municipal Building, which is now the home of the Anne Gregory bridal shop.
The modernist ideal: towers in a park. It works here better than it works almost anywhere else it has been tried. The architects, incidentally, were the firm of Eggers & Higgins, who were the successors to John Russell Pope.
Old Pa Pitt decided to make this picture look as much as possible like an architect’s rendering. He was trying out the LightZone photo software, which will take some getting used to. For correcting lens distortion, he used the GIMP.
Another view of the Allegheny station, this time from the Carnegie Science Center. A rush-hour two-car train is waiting on the platform.
The subway is free all the way from here under the Allegheny and through to First Avenue on the other side of downtown Pittsburgh. The extension of the free zone to the North Side is sponsored by the Stadium Authority and the Rivers Casino, so old Pa Pitt cannot in good conscience say that gambling never did anything for him. He still has never set foot in the casino, but he is grateful for the free ride.
Two rush-hour two-car trains wait at the Allegheny station, which is the end of the Red and Blue Lines until somebody gets to work on the next extension toward the airport.
Ice forms on the surface of Father Pitt’s favorite little stream in Mount Lebanon, but the water continues to flow underneath. Old Pa Pitt visited this little stream yet again with his oldest digital camera to prove to himself that a thirteen-year-old brick could still take a decent picture. It can. It is a bit amusing to think of a thirteen-year-old camera as “old,” since old Pa Pitt seldom used a film camera that was younger than thirty years old, and often used cameras approaching their century mark. But in digital photography, thirteen years takes us back to the Neolithic Age.
Nothing happens in this video. It is six minutes of snow silently falling against restful woodland backdrops. Think of it as a slide show with moving pictures.
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