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Tag: Eberhardt & Ober

  • Early & Often

    E&O Beer: Early & Often
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    “Eberhardt & Ober” is quite a mouthful when you want to order beer, so most people just called it E&O, and the company bowed to the public will in its advertising. The initials suggested the slogan “Early & Often,” which became so famous in Pittsburgh that some older Pittsburghers still have it on their lips as a catchphrase for anything that’s worth doing over and over.

    This old painted sign facing Moravian Way in Dutchtown, where it can be seen from the East Ohio Street business district, was a faded ghost until some years ago, when it was lovingly repainted to exactly its original appearance.

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  • Eberhardt & Ober Brewery, Dutchtown

    Front elevation, Eberhardt & Ober Brewery

    This splendid building dates from 1883; it is one of the most substantial remaining works of Joseph Stillburg, who was a big deal in Pittsburgh in the 1800s. Eberhardt & Ober was later absorbed into Pittsburgh Brewing, but the E&O brand was kept for many years, along with the memorable slogan “Early & Often.”

    Eberhardt & Ober brewery

    The building is well kept as the home of the Penn Brewery, which arguably founded the craft-beer movement and probably makes better beer than Eberhardt & Ober ever made.

    Top of the tower
    Office building

    This office building, also designed by Stillburg, was built in 1897.

    Inscription
    Rebuilt 1897
    Eberhardt & Ober brewery

    The tall building with few windows was the stock house. Old Pa Pitt is not sure what the handsome little building attached to it was; perhaps a neighborhood historian can enlighten us.

    Small wing
    Small wing
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  • Old Stable on Troy Hill

    Old stable on Troy Hill

    Every city used to be full of stables because every city used to be full of horses. Garages have replaced stables, and most of the old stables have vanished. Here is a rare survivor. It was in the beer business for at least a century, but that it was a stable before that is fairly obvious. The grinning horse tells the story. Even then it may have been a stable for a brewery; the earliest owner old Pa Pitt has been able to trace was J. P. Ober, the Ober of Eberhardt & Ober, whose brewery at the base of this same hill is now the Penn Brewery.

    Horse ornament
    Horse ornament
    Entrance with horse’s head
    Entrance
    1512 Lowrie Street
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