A few days before the official arrival of spring, crocuses have popped up all over the city. Here are two that appeared in Beechview.
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Well Dressed in German, Too
In the 1890s, a department store in Pittsburgh that made any pretense to customer service would need a multilingual staff. Here’s an 1892 advertisement for Kaufmann’s from the Volksblatt, one of three German daily newspapers in Pittsburgh at the time. From this advertisement we can gather that a gentleman could be a gentleman with or without a cigar, but no gentleman who pretended to fashion would venture forth without his stick.
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Oakland in the Snow
Click on the picture to enlarge it. The Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh is a substantial city in its own right. The heart of it is the third-largest central business district in Pennsylvania, whose skyline we see here across the open white spaces of the Schenley Park golf course.
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A Stroll in Schenley Park
The Bob O’Connor Golf Course at Schenley Park, like the rest of the city, was quickly covered with eight inches of snow overnight. The next day, the snow was still fresh and untouched, except where the occasional adventurous walker had made a path through it.
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Allegheny Station
Click on the picture to enlarge it. The new subway line (which in this section, obviously, will be an elevated line) to the North Side is taking shape. This will be the Allegheny station when it’s finished. The line is scheduled to open in about a year.
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Frick Park Gateway in the Snow
Click on the picture to enlarge it. The gateway to Frick Park at the Homewood Avenue circle, as it appeared in the gently falling snow this morning.
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Desert Room at Phipps
The entrance to the Desert Room at Phipps Conservatory. The glass sculpture is by Dale Chihuly; it’s now part of Phipps’ growing permanent collection of art.
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Cathedral of Learning in the Snow
It’s been snowing just a little every day, just enough to keep the snow beautiful all over the city.
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Phipps in the Snow
Is there anything more delightful than to stand in a tropical forest looking out the window at a beautiful snow-covered landscape? It’s a rhetorical question.
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Kodachrome
Father Pitt seldom has much to say about things outside Pittsburgh, and he will say very little now. He has only this to say: the world is not quite as beautiful without Kodachrome as it was with Kodachrome.
